My dad went to China in the 70s in this way, via road. He absolutely adores China since then. We have some pictures of him on the great wall.
As for me, the most daring thing I did was travel the US East Coast a few times, in addition to mandatory trips to Murree.
I am looking forward to visiting both Turkey and China in the near future. I will try to take a trip to Xinjiang too. In Turkey, I will also stay in Kurdish region due to a colleague. Also my other good friend in Özbekistan invited me to his village.
Will have some nice horse meat and let everyone know how it is.
Aside from that, I have spent some time in the ME, UK, and Canada.
China is on my yet to-do list, one of those places in the world you just have to visit. Good for your dad, must have been amazing seeing China in those times, I'm sure it was a different world altogether.
lol, I visited Murree back in 99 as part of a plan to visit the northern areas, plan being to go with the flow, but got so peeved off in Murree, I had enough and turned back lol. It was December, booked into Cecil hotel due to a recommendation, what a nightmare, the heating wasn't working, obviously, it snows in December, they provided spare heaters twice, both stopped working within minutes, decided to sleep in the cold as was tired, in the morning no hot water, refused to call reception because I wanted to build up my anger so had a cold December shower in Murree lol then packed up everything, went into the reception full guns blazing, they quickly escorted me into the general manager's office, he was some retired high ranking army guy, colonel or something cant properly remember, gave him a piece of my mind too, he offered complimentary stay for next few days, but my mind was already made up I had had enough, so he gave me a card with a guarantee I could return anytime and stay for few days.
I never made it back, but what an experience
, at least I have a story now, that's priceless lol, there was more crapy stuff, but the story would get too long. The best thing about traveling is the stories.
you will enjoy Uzbekistan, a very interesting culture, not been myself yet, but a friend is from there, he used to be a police officer or at least that's what he tells me. They have awesome dry fruits (nuts etc) Turkey obviously is awesome, another place I have yet to visit, although almost every single person male or female I know have been to Turkey, I feel cheated somehow lol
My exposure is limited to Western and Southern Europe, and South-east Asia, a couple of times planned an African trip, friends messed it up, each time they would beg me to take them along and drop off nearer the time, which tended to kill my mood, resulting in me not going either, after that I did most of my traveling alone. So much better, so much freedom and no whinging.
