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olivelo — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 10:33:00 GMT

this is a little help for english speakers that want to contact me.

as my blog is made on a french site, the contact form is in french.
so here is the translation of the names of the fields you will have to fill:

Formulaire de contact (Contact form)

easy no?
so now click on this link to contact me!
(do not fill the form on this page! this is only an exemple)

photos d'australie, australian pictures

olivelo — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 03:20:00 GMT

photos de thailande, thai pictures

olivelo — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 03:10:00 GMT

lao-thai border

eshan

photos de chine, chinese pictures

olivelo — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 03:00:00 GMT

korla

photos du kyrghizstan, kyrghiz pictures

olivelo — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 02:55:00 GMT

it was already night when i got into kyrghizstan
as i didn't know where to sleep
i went in a international truck parking to put my tent
but there i met a man that proposed me to eat and sleep at his home
this is his son's neighbour and his house

mountain near osh,
the biggest kyrghiz city at the end of the fergana valley

40 km after osh begins the valley that leads to chiyirchik pass
they are renovating the road
and more than half of it is a track, mostly not stabilised

samples of kyrghiz textile design
-actually bed covers drying along the road-

when i saw these snowed mountains
i was afraid that it was already to late to pass the mountains with my bicycle
-actually it was!-
and i worried where would i sleep the next days

chiyirchik pass (2406 m)

after the pass the road is a long slope down to gulcho's valley
there was already no sun so going down has been very cold

as i couldn't find a good place to put my tent
-even a flat one-
i just put it near the road
no problems at all, despite the noise of traffic

the valley after gulcho

i had a flat tire
and as usual it was just before sunset...
so i had to camp along the road again
marvelous panorama but it was quite cold there
the third photo shows the ice inside my tent fly in the morning

children that came to watch me near my camp site

the mountains that close the valley of gulcho
i would stop a few kilometers after taking this photo
and hitchhike a truck that would take me to sary tash and irkeshtam

the road to the taldyk pass (3619 m)
there was snow on the road on this huge slope up
so even if i did it with my bicycle i would have had to push it...
and even pushing it snow is very slippery

sary tash and the pamir mountains, more than 7.000 meters high in the background

after sleeping in a little hotel in irkeshtam
i continued to china on my bike
this is the road that crosses the no-man's land
before china's border
(a very good road, probably made by chinese)

photos d'ouzbekistan, uzbek photos

olivelo — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 02:50:00 GMT

just after the turkmen-uzbek border

bukara
it is a nice little city
with many ancient buildings
surrounded by old traditional houses
near the mosques and madrassas
there is a bazar for tourists

i bought there a chapka in karakul
and two other traditional hats
(karakul is uzbek name for astrakan: the curly fur of baby sheeps
3 of them are used for this hat: i'm really a monster!)

sometimes it was very windy
i got protected of wind behind tractors carrying coton!

coton is grown everywhere in uzbekistan
which is the second world producer after the USA
left: people recolting coton
right: a coton factory with huge stacks of coton

in uzbekistan there are many bus stops along the road
some have shops inside them
this one is a butcher-bus stop!

registan place in samarkand

mausoleum of gur emir, amir temur and some others in samarkand ...

taskent, the capital is a big city created in 1938
there are mainly huge sovietic buildings and big banks
many nice parks also but nothing really interesting to do...

i have shared my hotel room with another olivier on bicycle
he's from barcelona, catalunya
and came in uzbekistan by plane with two other friends
to make a bicycle trip to bukara and samarkand
the hotel is very well decorated and very cheap
($8 for a bed in this double room)
but the boss thinks too much about money
and only his son speaks fair english...

buildings with huge communist paintings
in the suburbs of tashkent

a camp just after angren above the dam of its valley

the road to the end of the valley

the road that climbs to the kamchik pass

a touristic place at the end of the fergana valley
actually i didn't took any photo of the fergana valley...
it is mostly a step with som

there is petrol extraction near the kyrghiz border

this field is uzbek
that mountains are kyrghiz

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