by Richard Collett | Jul 4, 2017 | FROM THE ROAD, Uzbekistan
Tashkent Is a City Like No Other In Uzbekistan It’s a huge sprawl, densely packed with drab Soviet buildings and ugly apartment blocks. Tashkent is a city that lost its history when an earthquake levelled Uzbekistan’s capital, a city that was rebuilt from...
by Richard Collett | Jun 26, 2017 | GUEST POST
Balkan’s Epic Natural Gems on the Verge of the Unknown Today’s guest post comes from the beautiful and thoroughly under rated Balkans, as adventure travel writer and frequent Travel Tramp contributor Roxana explores a land on the verge of the unknown in her...
by Richard Collett | Jun 13, 2017 | Georgia, SURVIVAL GUIDES
Travel Tramp’s Top Things To Do In Tbilisi! Don’t leave home without Travel Tramp’s guide to the Top Thing’s To Do In Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia! From copious quantities of wine and heart attack inducing food, to cascading waterfalls...
by Richard Collett | Jun 6, 2017 | Azerbaijan, FROM THE ROAD
The Sheep Had Completely Blocked the Road To Lahic. There was no way around them. On one side were steep, jagged cliffs that terrifyingly looked as if they would come violently crashing down upon us at any moment and on the other side was a precipitous drop which...
by Richard Collett | May 24, 2017 | Cambodia, SURVIVAL GUIDES
Here are 10 Unusual Things To Do In Cambodia! Cambodia is a country with a rich history, located next to Thailand, Vietnam, and Laos, with a colourful culture and fantastic sights to see. You might have heard and you might have known all that. But even then there is...
by Richard Collett | May 18, 2017 | FROM THE ROAD, Uzbekistan
‘For Lust Of Knowing What Should Not Be Known, We Take The Golden Road To Samarkand’- James Elroy Flecker. The Silk Road city of Samarkand has long lured travellers and conquerors in search of wealth and the exotic in Central Asia. In 1913 British poet...
by Richard Collett | May 11, 2017 | Armenia, Borders
“This is not the best time to be here”, said the official at the Ministry of Foreign affairs, “but thank you for visiting my country”. I had travelled to Nagorno-Karabakh, a country which doesn’t technically exist. It’s a small, breakaway territory between...
by Richard Collett | May 4, 2017 | DARK TOURISM, FROM THE ROAD, Uzbekistan
Bukhara, the beautiful Silk Road City with a dark history. Bukhara is majestic. It’s beautiful. Sand stone buildings, tall minarets and vast mosques greet the traveller who arrives in what is one of Uzbekistan’s, and Central Asia’s finest...
by Richard Collett | Apr 27, 2017 | Azerbaijan, FROM THE ROAD
The Old Man of Sheki was staring at me with a mad look in his eyes. He beckoned me over with a frantic gesture as he sat crossed legged on a ragged sheep skin on the floor. The greying, dishevelled Azerbaijani man had a crazy glint in eyes, and something...
by Richard Collett | Apr 21, 2017 | FROM THE ROAD, Uzbekistan
It had taken weeks to reach the old city of Khiva. I’d crossed the Caspian Sea, travelled through the endless desert of Kazakhstan and then down into the boundless waste of Uzbekistan’s remote and arid Karakalpakstan province, past the rusting...
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