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turkmenistan                          https://i.imgur.com/wFCDFSP.mp4     
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I like the contrast of the photos of absolute nothing interspersed with the beautiful architecture.
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Dec 27, 2019 18:08
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Darchangel posted:I like the contrast of the photos of absolute nothing interspersed with the beautiful architecture. I like the absolute nothing interwoven with the beautiful(?) architecture. Seriously, where are all the people lol
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Dec 27, 2019 22:26
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fridge corn posted:I like the absolute nothing interwoven with the beautiful(?) architecture. Turkmenistan is pretty hosed up. They have crazy presidents for life. They do have a lot of oil and natural gas exports so I guess they have some money for these crazy renovations but most people are poor.
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Dec 29, 2019 08:26
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This is amazing.
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Dec 29, 2019 08:55
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Thread necromancy to say Any updates OP?
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May 15, 2020 02:59
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How much did the car cost and how much did the tasteful mods cost
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May 15, 2020 04:04
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What the gently caress lad
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May 15, 2020 04:14
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op died in a border crossing incident
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May 15, 2020 04:33
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Previa_fun posted:Thread necromancy to say yeah. I got bored of uploading photos on my phone. will try to do one final one
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May 15, 2020 09:27
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Crankit posted:How much did the car cost and how much did the tasteful mods cost it was about $2k to buy initially and then probably about $10k total but I have no idea really because it took years
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May 15, 2020 09:33
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Niva is surprisingly a better ride than Land Rover Defender. Back in the army we had both, and I'd always pick a bouncy and quirky Niva over Defender with its frighteningly vague steering. The foot pedals on the Niva were placed quite far up from the floor and the gear lever was placed a bit towards the right from you and it touched the passenger's seat when you switched in reverse. The engine and mechanics are a warmed-over 1966 design from Fiat 124. I was a proud owner of a beige 2108 back then. God, I miss that car.
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May 15, 2020 10:25
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GAY 4 ORGANS
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rereading this thread is nice in times like these 
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May 15, 2020 11:40
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Glad I got to live vicariously through this thread. OP is a hero, 5'd.
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May 15, 2020 13:50
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And here we are for the sake of closure. This last past a complete and utter nightmare. cargo ship from Turkmenistan to Azerbaijan. overland through the Caucuses - via Stalins birth place where there is a museum with all his stuff including the place where he used to poo poo and wank and plan genocides - to the Georgian port of Batumi and then another 3 day cargo ship to Ukraine. 2 days in the Ukrainian port trying to get documents. Across the misery porn landscape of Ukraine into the European Union. 28 hours at the border. very very bad experience. they did not like us or our car or paper document from Kazakhstan. Transit car are not allowed in the EU. Somehow snuck through into Poland on a shift change and stopped for 3 days at a truck stop in Poland. Managed to get insurance from a random guy at the truckstop and then on our merry way. The insurance was somehow valid and the police were fine with it in Germany when they stopped us on the autobahn and then onto one last boat from Rotterdam to Hull and parked up in the West Midlands. Then to Barbados for a holiday because this journey was not really hard work. I drove up to 12 hours a day nearly every day for 7weeks in one of the worlds worst cars.                                                 
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May 15, 2020 17:01
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Thanks for wrapping up the story! How’s the car doing now?
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May 15, 2020 17:22
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Snowy posted:Thanks for wrapping up the story! How’s the car doing now? it’s sitting in the countryside. no idea what to do with it 
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May 15, 2020 17:26
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  . This thread deserves a whole lada love.
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May 15, 2020 17:31
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RideTheSpiral posted:it’s sitting in the countryside. no idea what to do with it The perfect ending to a wonderfully told story. 5'd.
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May 15, 2020 17:32
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Mr. Mambold posted:
central asia is full of odd things. Like this for example. Who thought it was a good idea to build this giant watermelon shaped tea house in the middle of nowhere. Although having said there I was gasping for a tea when I saw the sign and was very disappointed to find it abandoned
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May 15, 2020 17:34
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RideTheSpiral posted:central asia is full of odd things. Like this for example. Who thought it was a good idea to build this giant watermelon shaped tea house in the middle of nowhere. Although having said there I was gasping for a tea when I saw the sign and was very disappointed to find it abandoned Looks like something out of Fallout: New Vegas
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May 15, 2020 17:36
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Salty Josh posted:Looks like something out of Fallout: New Vegas After 6 years in Central Asia I could do a whole new thread with weird poo poo content
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May 15, 2020 17:40
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i thinjk this is the first time in many years ive voted 5 on any thread in these forums. good poo poo op
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May 15, 2020 17:43
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Are these photos in an album anywhere online? I've got a friend who's a massive car nerd but isn't on SA and would love to see these
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May 15, 2020 17:44
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Earwicker posted:i thinjk this is the first time in many years ive voted 5 on any thread in these forums. good poo poo op thanks
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May 15, 2020 17:44
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RideTheSpiral posted:After 6 years in Central Asia I could do a whole new thread with weird poo poo content Dude, sounds like a plan
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May 15, 2020 17:45
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RideTheSpiral posted:After 6 years in Central Asia I could do a whole new thread with weird poo poo content This thread has made me yearn to go do a caucasus 2.0 trip & thread, I'm almost allowed into Azerbaijan again without being arrested at the border.
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May 15, 2020 18:14
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Rime posted:This thread has made me yearn to go do a caucasus 2.0 trip & thread, I'm almost allowed into Azerbaijan again without being arrested at the border. what did you do? I love the Caucasus. It was my first time in Azerbaijan and i absolutely loved it. Felt like arriving in civilisation. Baku is really lovely
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May 15, 2020 18:17
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RideTheSpiral posted:what did you do? I love the Caucasus. It was my first time in Azerbaijan and i absolutely loved it. Felt like arriving in civilisation. Baku is really lovely https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3721852 Probably need archives. Spent a month+ in Armenia, walked the length of Nagorno-Karabakh on foot and got my passport stamped (which means border arrest for Azerbaijan), went up to Georgia for a month, skipped out on Abkhazia due to some violence at the border and then hitchhiked my way across Turkey.
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May 15, 2020 18:23
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You can buy'em new https://www.autolada.ro/lada-4x4-urban.php
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May 15, 2020 18:27
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Do you have some friends (a couple) that went to Mt Blanc in 2019?
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May 15, 2020 18:27
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A lot of what you drove through looks like awful misery. I love it.
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May 15, 2020 18:43
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Rime posted:https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3721852 oh yeah nagorno-karabakh is a big pain the arse. we had to sack of a diversion to Armenia because of it
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May 15, 2020 19:17
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LastCaress posted:Do you have some friends (a couple) that went to Mt Blanc in 2019? Don’t think so
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May 15, 2020 19:18
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lekki posted:You can buy'em new https://www.autolada.ro/lada-4x4-urban.php yes this is why it was theoretically so easy to pimp an old one. They have never changed any of the Soviet models or parts. Unfortunately it turned into a money pit and the new parts are extremely low quality
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May 15, 2020 19:21
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sigher posted:A lot of what you drove through looks like awful misery. I love it. I find old Soviet stuff extremely cool
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May 15, 2020 19:27
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Just read this whole thread right now. Wowzers, what a trip. Thanks for posting, I'm super fascinated by old Soviet stuff and Central Asia. I'd love to got there some day but I don't speak any Russian (lazy I know). How hard would it be to get around with English? I know Dutch too, would that help at all?
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May 15, 2020 19:51
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Ralph Crammed In posted:Just read this whole thread right now. Wowzers, what a trip. Thanks for posting, I'm super fascinated by old Soviet stuff and Central Asia. I'd love to got there some day but I don't speak any Russian (lazy I know). How hard would it be to get around with English? I know Dutch too, would that help at all? pretty hard without russian. couldn’t have done any of this stuff really without speaking it. All the border crossings and bribing requires pretty good russian. Also getting onto the cargo ships would have been crazy hard. Also the best thing about Central Asia is the people so it would be a shame not to be able to speak to people. I’m not even sure Dutch is useful in the Netherlands
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May 15, 2020 19:54
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What part of afghanistan did you drive through, that was crazy
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A Bakers Cousin posted:What part of afghanistan did you drive through, that was crazy didn’t really drive through it. the road is in Tajikistan. we went along the wakhan corridor from the bit where Tajikistan, Pakistan, Afghanistan, China meet and the border is the river panj in the mountains. It’s crazy remote so you can walk across in places
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