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The Road of Bones: 105 Days 2020 Client Information Kit The Road of Bones: 105 days 2020 Client Information Kit Be one of only a handful of adventure bikers to embark on this extraordinary, sometimes life-changing, expedition into the incredible wilderness of Siberia. “It was an epic adventure, it’s hard to imagine anything will ever be as awesome and life changing again” - Deanne & Lynne, Road of Bones 2012 12 Welcome to Compass Expedition’s “The Road of Bones” info kit. Within these pages you will be introduced to one of the world’s most scenic and historical journeys. This kit will detail everything you need to know to participate in this historic ride. Read on and dare to dream. This evocative journey covers a quarter of the on a high as we ride this indescribably beautiful and earth’s surface as we ride from the bustling, vibrant remote land, the riding here provides us with a great city of London to one of the most remote towns on introduction of what is to come. The Trans Siberian earth, Magadan, “beyond” Siberia. We take in now turns to dirt as we ride east across Siberia some of the Europe’s most scenic regions as we before riding north toward the impossibly remote cross Germany and enter the stunning Tyrol region Yakutsk in the heart of Siberia. Our last challenge is of Austria, via the epic Grossglockner. Crossing the infamous “Road of Bones” officially, the Kolyma Hungary we enter the beautiful Romania, visiting Highway, this incredible ride travels over one and a Dracula’s castle along the way, before passing half thousand kilometres through the mountains to through Bulgaria and entering Turkey. We spend Magadan, on the Sea of Okhotsk. This is a road that time in Istanbul, the crossroads of Asia, wandering has a tragic history yet is a road that will provide us the mosques and fantastic bazaars before riding with some of the most inspiring landscapes and out along the Black Sea coast and into an area challenging rides available, it truly is a challenge but littered with remnants of the once great Ottoman one that is completely do-able with the right Empire. No ride to Turkey is complete without a visit support. to the Troglodyte region of Goreme. We enter Georgia before crossing into the world’s largest country, Russia, via the mighty Caucasus as we ride for Moscow. Starting out on the longest highway on earth, the Trans Siberian, we soon depart Russia and A little about the enter the storybook lands of Central Asia, the home of Genghis Khan, Tamerlane and countless Silk Road expedition traders as we ride across the vast empty and utterly silent Kazakh Steppe on our way to the jewel in the Silk Road crown, Uzbekistan. Blazing deserts, inland seas, mighty mountains, stunning Islamic architecture and a vastness nobody thought could still exist in today’s world greet us as we ride these ancient trade routes. Wonderful Alpine valleys that tumble out of the Central Tien Shan Mountains provide us with memorable days of riding in Kyrgyzstan. Back on the Kazakh Steppe we once again enter Russia and re-join the Trans Siberian as we ride on for the wonderful Lake Baikal, often described as the world’s most beautiful lake. Mongolia will leave you 2 12 Week One one of the world’s most recognizable sights of St Basils, located in the wonderful Red Square. Also Departing London we cross “under” the English on the agenda are the Kremlin, Lenin’s Tomb and Channel and spend a night in the beautiful Gorky Park as part of an included city tour. Riding Brugge, Belgium, before reaching the legendary out of Moscow we enjoy a short ride to Suzdal a Expedition River Rhine at St Goar, Germany but not before small Russian village seemingly caught in a time spending a morning at the amazing warp, things haven’t changed a lot since the rule Route Hohenswangau Castle. We ride the epic of the Tsars. The skyline of this small village is Grossglockner Pass before riding onto the stunning dotted with golden cupolas that glint in the Salzburg, home to Mozart. We cross into Hungary afternoon sun; it’s a wonderful place. We ride and arrive at spectacular Budapest, scenically south for Kazan with its amazing Kremlin and then located on the Danube, before visiting Dracula’s through rarely travelled country as we head for castle and the wonderful medieval town of Samara set on the banks of the Volga, a once Sighisaora in Romania, were we see the first week closed Russian city and home to the MIG jet out. fighters. Week Two Week Five A brief visit to the UNESCO listed city of Nessebar, We leave Russia and enter Kazakhstan and the Bulgaria will see us reach the crossroads of Asia at mighty Kazakh steppe. We ride the “road of Istanbul, we spend two nights visiting the death” across the silent Kazakh steppe, so vast remarkable Topkapi Mosque, Bazaars and other that you can see the curvature of the earth, it sights. Then a ride north - west visiting the really is a remote, lonely place, and we spend a wonderful Ottoman towns of Safranbolu and number of nights camping in the wild surrounded Amasya before visiting the amazing Troglodye by silence, sunset out here is extraordinary. dwellings at Goreme in Central Turkey. An optional hot air balloon flight is recommended to Next stop is the Aral Sea, where we see fishing really get a great view of this amazing landscape. boats left high and dry on the sand dunes when only a few decades earlier they were floating in Week Three the same spot. (Please note we do not see the Aral Sea, that’s the whole point, ITS GONE). The Riding north across the Turkish plateau we reach Aral Sea disaster, as it is known, is a testament to the Black Sea coast before stopping at Trabzon. man’s capacity to completely stuff up his Continuing on to Kars though tea plantations and environment. gaping canyons we cross into the beautiful Georgia. Georgia provides us with some epic riding, no more so than the utterly stunning and Week Six legendary Georgian Military Highway that cuts a We ride through the Kyzyl-Kum Desert to our next narrow yet winding path through the Caucasus, port of call, Turkistan, where we visit Kazakhstan’s before crossing into Russia. We continue north greatest building the Kozha Akhmed Yasaui onto Volgograd, formerly Stalingrad; this city was mausoleum built by Tamerlane in the 14th the sight of the bloodiest battle during WW2 and century. Leaving Kazakhstan we cross into a visit to the moving memorial on Mamaev Hill Uzbekistan. Uzbekistan is home to some of the and the 56m statue of “Mother Russia” is a must. greatest Silk Road treasures and is about as far away as you could get from the usual tourist trail, Week Four yet it holds some of the most fantastic architecture on earth. We spend two nights in Riding further north we eventually reach Moscow Tashkent before riding out for Samarqand. where we spend three nights allowing us to visit 3 3 No name is so evocative of the Silk Road than Samarqand. Two nights are spent in this magical city Highlights wandering the ancient alleyways and markets and watching as the sunsets over the mighty Registan, no other sight is so synonymous with the Silk Road as the Registan. Another two nights are Ø Brugge, Belguim Ø Riding the Grossglockner spent at Uzbekistan’s holiest city, Bukhara. Sipping tea and eating Shashlyks around the ancient Labi Ø Tyrol region, Austria Hauz is like stepping back in time. Bukhara too is synonymous with the Silk Road and also has a Ø Dracula’s Castle, Romania strong history relating to the “great game” played out in the 19th century. Ø Medieval village of Sighisoara, Romania Ø Istanbul Ø Ottoman village of Safranbolu, Turkey Week Seven Ø Goreme, Turkey We ride onto Tamerlane’s birthplace of Shakhrisabz and view the mighty Ak-Saray palace once so Ø Volgograd (formerly Stalingrad) Ø Saint Basil and the Red Square, Moscow big it even dwarfed the Registan, all that is left now is its 40m/ 131ft high entrance, still an amazing Ø Suzdal, Russia sight. We cross the 1788m/ 5866ft pass of Takhtakaracha before riding back to Tashkent and down Ø The “Road of Death”, Kazakhstan into the Ferghana Valley before spending a night in Fergana. We cross now into what is known as Ø The immense Kazakh steppe Ø The Aral Sea (for all the wrong reasons) Central Asia’s Shangri-la, Kyrgyzstan, home to some of Central Asia’s grandest mountains. We are Ø The Silk Road cities of Samarkand and Bukhara, now in the cool of the mountains for the first time as we ride through stunning canyon lands Uzbekistan dissected in two by a turquoise river running far below, the riding is simply stunning. We cross the Ø The glorious Registan, Emirs Ark and other Silk Road immense Kazarman Pass inhabited by a handful of very friendly Ger dwelling families where we antiquities, Uzbekistan Ø The Central Tien Shan Mountains, Kyrgyzstan camp out amongst the mountains in this stunning landscape. Ø Song Kol (the lake and it’s Ger dwelling families) Ø The 3,820 m / 12,532 ft Chong Asskan Pass (with Week Eight views of China), Kyrgyzstan Ø Altyn-Arashan (stunning Alpine valley), Kyrgyzstan We ride over another pass at 3500m/ 11482ft and down to the capital, Bishkek where we can Ø Lake Baikal, Russia recharge our batteries and enjoy the city life for 2 nights.
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