“Changes” (David Bowie)

While in Bukhara we had a truck meeting to discuss some forced route changes. Unfortunately the Chinese have decided in their infinite wisdom to close their borders to all overland trucks until at least September. As we were due to spend the better part of 6 weeks there, this throws a little spanner in the works! But our fearless leaders have made a plan, and we are off to Pakistan, India and Nepal before heading to Bangkok and rejoining our original itinerary through south east Asia. Quite a change! After hurriedly getting out the atlas and the Pakistan guidebook, the excitement about the new route is growing daily as it gets closer and closer. We are now in Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan and our second to last stop in Uzbekistan, then we are heading to Kyrgystan before launching off into the unknown!