Caravanistan

I see two Mongol Rally cars outside my hotel currently. Perhaps your cars! I don't know if they will work on the weekend but I suspect they probably would. Why not just head over to the workshop and speak to him.

DIESEL IN TASHKENT: 4 hours criss-crossing city, eventually got some at (41.348030, 69.238343). 1st August 2018. Of course diesel today doesn’t mean diesel tomorrow. My best advice for someone is go to any fuel station and ask for diesel, when they laugh and say “NET” ask them where you can get it u...

Hi All, update on this: I was unsuccessful in Dushanbe despite giving it my best effort. In Khorog, T-Cell shop gave me a SIM card with very little fuss. I had to wait about 15 minutes during which time, as I understand it, they were getting the ID of a local with which to register the SIM card. Did...

I am yet another casualty of shoddy diesel in Uzbek/Tajik! DPF failure. Just about limped over the Kyrgyz border to Osh. I eventually found 'Vladimir's Workshop'. In short: amazing. The guys in there are extremely hard working and know their trade. I cannot recommend this place enough. They get a st...

Hi All, Am travelling the Pamirs overland. Currently in Dushanbe and run into registration problem for TCell/Megafon SIM cards. My hotel in Dushanbe will only give me the registration for the dates I am staying in Dushanbe and TCell in turn will only give me a SIM valid for the dates of my registrat...