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If you are visiting for the first time, the Roof of the World Rally blogs begin at the bottom of http://thetravelmur.com/page/9/ and read up from the bottom.  You can view the subsequent days by clicking the “Next Entries>>” link at the bottom of each page.

Highlights of what have been blogged include:

• death warnings at sendoff
• driving where Germans only walk
• our first (of many) shakedown by police
• finding a backwards solution to a breakdown in Kazakhstan
• attacked in Kyrgyzstan
• a river runs through it–the car, that is
• near-death experience by altitude sickness
• creative ways to pay for a Tajik hospital stay
• unwelcome to most popular in a Pamiri village

Stories soon to come:

• twice a fugitive
• sleeping in minefields
• driving through waterfalls
• the most treacherous roads of the journey
• the most treacherous non-roads of the journey
• the benefits of bad tuna
• bridges that shouldn’t be
• a conversation with the KGB
• the finish line
• the vodka line
• the toilet line
• Tajiki departure
• European departure

Videos

Videos continue to be uploaded and are listed in the column to the left or by clicking here:  VIDEOS

Maps

The map of our drive has been updated here:  MAP

Photos

Photos continue to be uploaded from the trip and can be viewed by clicking the photo below.