Almost 20,000 kilometers of road trips in a difficult year. 2022

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"First, statistics. On trips of various lengths, I dashed off 19,578 kilometers in a year. The farthest was a trip to the Crimea - 9612 kilometers. The distance in a straight line between the extreme eastern (Issyk-Kul) and extreme western (Crimea) points of the routes was 3530 kilometers. The extreme north (Saratov) and the extreme south (Garmchashma) are separated by 2560 kilometers. Since my roads ran through the territory of five states - Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, I had to cross the border thirteen times this year! And now, "lyrics" ..."
You can read the story and see all the photos here. Now just a few pictures.

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The highest point of all trips was the Akbaital pass (4655 m).

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And the "lowest" point of all routes was 30 meters below sea level. It happened in Kazakhstan, on the road along the northern coast of the Caspian Sea.

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The most western point was the famous 35th battery in Sevastopol.

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The easternmost point was the shore of the Issyk-Kul lake.

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The northernmost point of all this year's travels was Saratov, a city in Russia, on the Volga River...

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... and the southernmost - the hot springs of Tajikistan, Garmchashma.

Shown in detail in the next video.

https://youtu.be/RbsFOLDaPKw

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For comparison with the map that was published in the first post, I offer a map for a quarter of a century of travel. Here we are talking about hundreds of thousands of kilometers of trips.

Finished with this topic. I'll think about it and maybe create a new topic with the most interesting photos of my travels of all time.
Good luck to all!

[Lutnistas1969]

hmm... after all, you've been to 6, not 5 countries. You forgot to mention the occupied Crimea, which officially belongs to the Ukraine.

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This is a travel forum. This is the second time you've raised political issues here. For what? Provocation?