Category Archives: Preparing for Mongolia!

Today we will give the Pamir Highway a go. The terrain is really challenging, usually requiring 4WD cars with suitable torque to be conquered, but in the spirit of the rally, we will attempt it anyways. The car is doing … Continue reading →

Turkmenistan is a bizarre country, in my opinion the most mysterious one we’re visiting. Xenophobia runs very deep in the Turkmen government, which makes it a very difficult country to visit. The pathological state paranoia translates to extremely rigorous visa … Continue reading →

In Zanjan we met a 20 year old German biker who had been touring Iran for 2 weeks. I asked him what was his favorite thing and he said “a couple of days ago I met some Iranians who invited … Continue reading →

Iran (August 5th, 2011) We woke up at 5:30AM to leave Kahta by 6:00AM and make it to the 7:00AM ferry. The place that looked so desolated last night was full of live and a small ferry was floating on … Continue reading →

Today we woke up at 4:45AM in the morning to hop on a hot air balloon and witness Cappadocia from the sky. We got back to the hotel at about 7AM, took a quick cold shower, had breakfast and hit … Continue reading →

Sorry for the lack of updates. We promise they will come, but in the meantime I wanted to remind everyone that we send daily tweets from our SpotGPS to the Basic Cruising Twitter Account. You can also keep track of … Continue reading →

Después de una pésima noche acampando en un pueblo de mala muerte en Rumania, el ánimo se recupero instantaneamente al cruzar la famosa carretera Transfagarasan, reconocida como la mejor carretera del mundo por Top Gear.

Craziness. This. Road. Is. Epic.

Yesterday we hit the beach at the Black Sea in Bulgaria at a place called Sunny Beach. We relaxed for a while and went for a swim. When we went back to our car, this is what we found: We’ve … Continue reading →

Yesterday was a slow but much needed day. We finally managed to buy all our remaining items in our shopping list which included 2 jerry cans, a shovel, sleeping pads, and a small cooking stove. We replaced a couple of … Continue reading →