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A ramp to the roof of the world leads up the Wakhan Valley, great game vortex. NGOs outnumber tourists, potatoes provide entire meals, Afghanistan is just there and beauty in nature, both human and physical, is all encompassing: to the roof of the world: episode two – the aga khan’s people from Tim Way on Vimeo. A [...] December 8th, 2009 | Tags: afghanistan, aga khan, herder, hindu kush, ismaeli, Khorog, mountain, muslim, potato, snow, squat toilet, tajikistan, the roof of the world, wakhan | Category: video |
 9 comments |  RSS Posts Feed Bandits encouraged us to make tracks from Sary Tash in southern Kyrgyzstan. But were Uyghur trucks the best route out? A rough mountain route, the intensely corrupt ‘police’ force and a multitude of mechanical issues (and normalities) were to be hitches – on the hitch. a uyghur hitch from Tim Way on Vimeo. December 7th, 2009 | Tags: breakdown, carpet, hitch, lorry, mountain, puncture, slow, truck, tyre, unexpected, uyghur | Category: video |
Leave a comment | RSS Posts Feed When it all goes wrong: the presenters mess up, the focus is off, the cameraman can’t muffle his deep breathing or sheep block the road! A selection of (the substandard) clips from out travels through the extremely remote Pamir and Fan Mountain regions of Tajikistan, including the Wakhan Valley, the Great Game vortex. A [...] October 28th, 2009 | Tags: cold, fannski gori, mountain, murghab, outtakes, pamir, penjakent, tajikistan, wakhan, water | Category: video |
Leave a comment | RSS Posts Feed Tajikistan deserves all the superlatives thrown at it; they all stick. So awfully dirt poor, uber hospitable, proud, surprising, with perfectly clear skies and blue lakes, and so very good at squatting. Although the last to be uploaded, this is the first in the series of Tajik pictures and covers the north the west and the [...] October 28th, 2009 | Tags: donkey, dung, dushanbe, eggs, Fan Mountains, fannski gori, Geisev, hot pring, Khorog, melon, mountain, tajikisan, tajikistan, Uaz, water, Zerafshan Valley | Category: photo gallery |
Leave a comment | RSS Posts Feed Azerbaijan is split. Stroll down the Caspian waterfront in Baku, shop in Calvin Klein and dine in lavish surrounds. Stop by for a game of nard and slip a little something to the police when you skip the lights. Take a $15 taxi ride in the oil boom capital. Step away to the mountains where scudding [...] September 3rd, 2009 | Tags: azerbaijan, baku, bribe, gas, horse, mountain, qinaliq, water, wealth, women | Category: video |
4 comments | RSS Posts Feed Turkemnistan is a flat desert with some of the world’s largest gas reserves underneath. Above ground, a real mix of religions combine to provide a country which is almost more weird where Turkenbashi hasn’t put his print, though Ashgabat’s hardly your standard capital. For commentary on the photos and comments, head here.
September 3rd, 2009 | Tags: ashgabat, bryce, canyon, cemetary, confusion, crater, fire, genghis khan, goat, gold, hell, horns, hot, iran, konye urgench, marble, megalomaniac, melon, ministry, mountain, nokhur, nyazov, peace, tent, turkmenbashi, turkmenistan, yangakala | Category: photo gallery |
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