Hi Elizabeth, my driver managed to get almost all the way to the seventh lake in a regular car—not even a 4x4! The road conditions didn’t feel dangero...

Can you return the car in Bukhara or Samarkand, or does it have to be Tashkent?

I asked a friend in Bishkek who organizes jeep tours. He said that for foreigners, crossing is only possible through Osh (Dostuk checkpoint).

You can arrange it remotely through intermediaries. I handled mine via Omurbek (can’t recall his last name). Two weeks prior, I sent him scanned copie...

@artemideus We crossed the Batken border from Kyrgyzstan into Tajikistan on June 10, 2024, with two cars. To pass through the Kyrgyz section, you mus...