it’s a huge and beautiful country filled with a whole lot of nothing…! like seriously big, and seriously nothing…!!
the people are amazingly friendly and helpful, though very shy (even many of the kids) so if we don’t initiate a ‘conversation’ then though they will be interested they won’t say anything
the dogs are not – the dogs are trained to be vicious which makes travelling on your own in rural areas somewhat challenging at times since even on a bicycle it’s impossible to outrun a determined dog
the roads are either really, really good (like in the south between the Chinese border and Sanjnsand) or really, really terrible (pretty much everywhere else)
the countryside changes quickly and offers pretty much everything, but tends to be mostly arid
it’s windy, it’s always windy, it’s windy in the day, it’s windy in the night, all that varies is the direction and intensity (from strong to even stronger)
vehicles are mostly old, either really old Russian vehicles (like our support vehicles) or imported-from-Japan more modern, but none-the-less old vehicles.
