Team Charolastra ... spreading the love 10,000 miles, from Belfast to Ulaan Bataar July 2010 - doin' it for the kids!

[TEAM CHAROLASTRA WILL BE BROADCASTING LIVE PRIOR TO & ENROUT FROM THIS 10,000 MILE HERCULEAN ENDEAVOUR, VIA THEIR USTREAM CHANNEL - ANNOUNCEMENT OF CHANNEL LAUNCH TO FOLLOW. WHAT'S NOT GOING TO BE ENTERTAINING ABOUT TAKING OUR 'WEE COUNTRY' BACK ACROSS THE OLD SILK ROUTE, THROUGH IRAN, AND OVER THE PAMIR HIGHWAY...EH?]

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Darius, Xerxes and the last Shahs knees-up!

Team "Charolastra" & Team "Iscream" at highest pass on Pamir Highway (Koi-Tezek if we remember correctly, somewhere around the 5000m ASL mark). Gettin' a brew on ;-)

Soo, caned the Pamir highway in a $400 Citroen. We still can't quite believe that - this is infamous as one of the toughest drives on the planet, and we managed it in a Berlingo with 3x bolts holding the back end on. Here's me whaa indeed...

Above, Persopolis, Iran. Meant to post this ages ago and couldn't. Between us, Team Charolastra has seen some pretty awesome stuff (Nazca lines, Ankor Wat, Maccu Piccu etc. etc.) but Persoplis wins hands down! Alexander the Great (we can't get thon raker Colin Farrell out of our heads, when that name is mentioned - bloody Oliver Stone!) turned up, bitch-slapped Xerxes then decided to put the feet up for a few months before sackin' the place. Good man. We can kind of see why, beautiful...

Random pic alert froim now on. First 'net access in AGES so we have a lot of other business to take care of here (stolen phones, Visa cards not working etc.), and this Kyrgyz bandwidth is making us lose the will to live, with regard to updating this place. Please bear with us comrades, Spasiba ;-)

Tunnel through Aborz mountains - hypnotic light shafts.

Kid Charolastra fan ;-)

Bit of a motif out here - asleep on the job ;-)

Sunset, main highway, Mary, Turkmen.

Right gotta go and take care of the above situations. Been stranded in Bishkek for 2 days now - car still not fixed! Maybe 1 or 2 more? Has really fekked up our schedule - means we have to try and cane it through Kazakhstan in 24-48hrs. Possible? We'll see. Hopefully the luck of the Charolastra holds ;-)

For now our main point of contact is Barry's I-Phone.

See sms updates below for succint detail of last few days. Every 24hrs around here just keeps getting more insane... In the best possible way of course!

Ciao

xo the 'lastras!

Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

Found the best squat toilet in Asia. Priceless. Give piss a chance... As the sign says... ;-)

Dzhalal-Abadskaya, Kyrgyzstan

Nite out on the fermented milk = Steve robbed of $50 & mobile fone. But that's what we signed up for ;-)

Dzhalal-Abadskaya, Kyrgyzstan

Sarah, cancel my mobile contract ASAP!!! :-(

Dzhalal-Abadskaya, Kyrgyzstan

Absolutely heartbreaking to see first-hand the carnage on streets after recent 'ethnic cleansing'. Words fail us :-(

Narynskaya, Kyrgyzstan

2X Tayto tee's got us off $$$ shakedown, & Charolastra comedy vehicle got us off speed ticket :-) The Gods are smiling upon us. Ciao xo

Ошская Область, Kyrgyzstan

Enroute Sary Tash, aussies snapped wheel off. Bad times :-( Lets see what tomorrow brings. Crazed here as usual... Buenos noches x

Murghab, Tajikistan

On the 'Roof of the World', Yeah! Citroen got its' medicine, hitting Kyrg border with team 'IScream'. Aussie beer hounds ;-) 5000m ASL. Ciao x

Gorno-Badakhshan, Tajikistan

Afghanistan border. 300 miles of Pamir = broke suspension & windscreen, tyre blow & cops steal Barrys phone. What. A. Day :-(

Region of Republican Subordination, Tajikistan

Tajik barber & blade = change of undergarments. Now sporting Tajik mullet. Suave wot wot!

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