Where do you even begin to
describe a place like the Pamirs? The
sights and sounds, the people, the experiences and the emotions…
It took us six days to cycle from
Osh to Murgab, a distance of about 430km.
We reckoned it would take us another 8 days to cycle from Murgab to
Khorog via the Wakhan Valley and then 6 more days from Khorog to Dushanbe. It’s more common (a relative word!) to cycle
in the opposite direction to the one we went in because the wind is more
usually at your back and the gradient is slightly easier that way. But, we’re travelling westwards, so we cycled
the pamirs backwards! Having done it, I now understand that the wind really is a game changer. We cycled into a very
strong headwind almost immediately after leaving Murgab and we battled it more
or less the whole way to Khorog, which in the end took us 9 long days.
