We leave our courtyard hotel at Bukhara just before 7am, wheeling the bikes out from their parking spaces in the courtyard to avoid waking up other residents. We are hoping to beat the heat of the day but the temperature has already climbed to 33C by 1000 am. Still, an easy journey today of only 170 miles to Samarkand, still in Uzbekistan. We arrive at our hotel at just before midday. Pretty good roads too by Uzbekistan standards and we witness lots of wheat har...

A sightseeing and relaxing day in Bukhara, Uzbekistan. Bukhara (also spelled Bokhara, Bukhoro, or Buxoro) in Uzbekistan historically one of the great trading cities along the Silk Road. The city is a Unesco Heritage site. In Sanskrit the word Bukhara means "abbey". Bukhara, "The city of museums", contains more than 140 architectural monuments of the Middle Ages. Such buildings as Poi - Kalan, Kosh Madras, mausoleum of Ismail Samoni, minaret of Kalyan and other...

The management at our hotel in Bhiva kindly arranged an early breakfast and we got away just before 7am to try avoid the heat of the day. There is about 270 miles to do however. We rode out of the walled city and after a few miles of rough roads and sunday street markets, we get onto the main road to Bukhara, a lovely dual carriageway - heaven! There are loads of petrol stations, so reports of lack of fuel are obviously wrong. After about 150 miles we enter into...

At breakfast in Nukus, Uzbekistan we meet a Spanish biker, he is riding a BMW F800 from Spain all the way through to eastern Russia, the getting a boat to Alaska and then biking all the way down to Ushuia in Southern Argentina. Wow I thought our trip was long but he is going to be on the road for several months. An easy 120 miles journey to the walled city of Khiva. Roads in Uzbekistan are anything from bad to poor, occasionally good, so it was fairly slow pr...

Despite all six of us being in the same room and noise in the corridor all night, we all got a surprisingly good sleep in the truckers cafe and hotel at the Kazakhstan Uzbekistan border. In the morning there were still several pretty girls hanging about trying to give us the eye. No doubt this is a place where some truckers get more than their breakfast when they stop here. The petrol for our bikes finally arrives in the morning and we get our six bikes topped u...