In all the excitement recently, I have completely forgotten to post up the various background pictures that have been adorning the top of our website over the last few weeks. The purpose of sticking these up was to serve as a high level / retrospective summary of our route (as well as the usual ooh-pretty-pictures reasons) so here you are.
I have also rediscovered the “random header” function on the blog, which I will turn on for the next few days. This should allow you to see a different header image from some point along the road every time you refresh your browser (and hopefully won’t crash our server). Enjoy!
Flying Visit to Beijing
The Forbidden City. Unsurprisingly, the huge and surprising Tibetan Stupa in the middle of it is “closed for refurbishment”
Start of the Silk Road in Turkmenistan
“Never buy the first carpet you see”. Unfortunately, this was one of the first – and one of the finest – we ever saw, and we didn’t buy it.
Think “The London Eye” but huge, gold, and in the desert. Bingo!
As Lucy so succinctly put it: “UUUUUUUUUURGHHH”
Artistique! (actually the outside of a camel pen, and it smells less good than it looks)
The first sight of the Darvaza gas crater, now my new favourite place
“Push me in! Come on, I dare you!”
After the event, contemplating the future. This picture is SO going up on our wall at home
Architectural Overload in Uzbekistan
Is it a carpet? Is it a ferris wheel? No, it’s a (stunningly beautiful) tiled roof
HUGE writing across the top of a similarly huge building. No funny comments here, in case of Fatwa
“You seek the grail, you say? Well, don’t come bothering us – we have already got one!”
And as a special treat, a few that we haven’t (technically) got to yet…
It’s amazing what you can do with photoshop these days…
Winter is coming!
Think Lake Tahoe, but without all those pesky people…