Upon arrival in Bishkek we found ourselves a guest house and made preparations to begin the Central Asian visa dance. The dance is long, drawn out and nobody is exactly sure of the steps. It seems to be different for each person. Our first partner [...]

When the phone call came I was sitting at the communal table drinking a beer to celebrate getting the last of our visas for central Asia. My mother very matter of factly informed me that my father had died earlier that day. That beer swiftly mutat [...]

As soon as your arrive in Korla it feels like a place under occupation. Which of course it is. The Chinese marched in in 1789 – massacring over a million people in the neighbouring Kingdom of Zunghar in the process – and haven’t  [...]

The first day we spent getting out of Guiyang. The national highway was closed because of building works and some of the alternative routes prohibited bicycles. We took then anyway as there didn’t seem to be another way. Finally we left the  [...]

China is often painted as the villain of climate change it is the country with the highest greenhouse gas emissions after all. But what often isn’t mentioned is just how badly affected China will be by climate change. Already suffering from  [...]