Overlanding as the New RV'ing
There is a definite significant rise in the interest and participation in Overlanding. Overlanding is the idea of travel for travels sake usually doing an entire continent or around the world. T...
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"I tell you what, why don't you overland to Kazakhstan and then write back about it."
I would love to. Unfortunately that isn't going to happen any time soon. I did plan this trip once a long time ago, back in the eighties and again in the early 2000's by motorcycle. But Cancer and other things intervened before I could make it a reality.
The Silk Road route is a true adventure taking you through Uzbekistan (where you find Samarkand), Tajikistan, Kazakhstan and others. I know people who have done it and it was the best of their round-the-world Overlanding trip according to them.
And this area is definitely NOT the Middle East. It is Central Asia. Part of what we call the Middle east lies firmly in Asia the rest in Africa. The people that live their don;t use that term...
And about Asia. Yes there are west Asia, CENTRAL ASIA (where Kazakhstan is) and SE Asia and East Asia and South Asia...all are Asia. Most of those distinctions only exist in the west. But what makes you think Mongolia is "More Asian" than Uzbekistan? I think you tread very close to racial stereotyping here.
And toedtoes with all due respect to you, if you are going to lecture me about geography the least you could do is get it right.
I would love to. Unfortunately that isn't going to happen any time soon. I did plan this trip once a long time ago, back in the eighties and again in the early 2000's by motorcycle. But Cancer and other things intervened before I could make it a reality.
The Silk Road route is a true adventure taking you through Uzbekistan (where you find Samarkand), Tajikistan, Kazakhstan and others. I know people who have done it and it was the best of their round-the-world Overlanding trip according to them.
And this area is definitely NOT the Middle East. It is Central Asia. Part of what we call the Middle east lies firmly in Asia the rest in Africa. The people that live their don;t use that term...
And about Asia. Yes there are west Asia, CENTRAL ASIA (where Kazakhstan is) and SE Asia and East Asia and South Asia...all are Asia. Most of those distinctions only exist in the west. But what makes you think Mongolia is "More Asian" than Uzbekistan? I think you tread very close to racial stereotyping here.
And toedtoes with all due respect to you, if you are going to lecture me about geography the least you could do is get it right.
