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Charlie Walker

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On roads that echo: bicycling too far. Part 1: Asia

  • 27/10/2019
  • Charlie Walker
Charlie Walker cycles far too far - though not fast - as he pedals across India on his way to Africa. Here there's a river in the way.
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Through Sand and Snow book cover
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Cutting the wires to sneak through Tibet’s closed Western border

  • 10/01/2018
  • Charlie Walker
Charlie Walker's continuing adventures have resulted in the launch of a new travel book. Here, for the first time, take the chance to read his prologue.
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Northern Russia expedition
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Skiing south on the border between Europe and Asia

  • 18/06/2017
  • Charlie Walker
Charlie Walker tracks the border between Russia and Asia. It's cold up there but Cally helps him travel a route with absolutely no transport infrastructure.
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Stalin in Inta, northern Russia
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Arrested for tourism in Russia’s far north

  • 08/06/2017
  • Charlie Walker
Adventurer par excellence Charlie Walker runs into legal problems as he fights his way through a forgotten corner of the Soviet Empire. Who knew tourism was so illegal.
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Tanks in Russia
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A tank beats a trudge across the Soviet Arctic

  • 22/04/2017
  • Charlie Walker
Charlie Walker's latest expedition is tracing the border between Europe and Asia. His start, in the wintry tundra of northern Russia, makes it clear just what a task he's undertaken.
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Church service, Lubumbashi, DRC
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Praise to the lord – and now please pay. Amen

  • 13/09/2014
  • Charlie Walker
On his bike through the DRC, Charlie Walker drops in to an emotional church service in Lubumbashi. Religious ecstasy rules but the ministers carefully shepherd their payment.
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Mineral mines near Lubumbashi
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Dodgy village campouts in rural DRC

  • 28/08/2014
  • Charlie Walker
Charlie Walker finds his cycle through the Democratic Republic of the Congo sometimes helped - but often hindered - by the rarity of foreigners in one of the world's most troubled states.
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Campsite at the foot of dune 45
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A fast pedal through Namibia’s deserts

  • 13/05/2014
  • Charlie Walker
On his endless round-the-world cycle marathon Charlie Walker passes through Namibia. There's plenty of wildlife but also the peace of his surroundings.
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Stirrings of war in a quiet Mozambique

  • 11/03/2014
  • Charlie Walker
A 60-mile stretch of road was closed to all traffic, except for army convoys that sped through once a day, bristling with guns. But Charlie Walker, on his bicycle, is just waved through. Gulp.
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Women carrying wood, Malawi
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All at sea on the shores of Lake Malawi

  • 26/12/2013
  • Charlie Walker
Charlie Walker's epic cycle ride runs into soft sand (of the beachy kind) on the shores of Lake Malawi. An overdue chance for some R & R.
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Pedaling through mud on a track through Tanzania

  • 27/11/2013
  • Charlie Walker
By car, Tanzania's best know for serious, random speed bumps spread along the tarmac. On a bicycle Charlie Walker has a different set of problems - mainly ants and tsetse flies - as as he powers his way down East Africa along a long stretch of mud.
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Dirt road through Uganda
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Gorillas in the .. er .. missed

  • 30/10/2013
  • Charlie Walker
Charlie Walker's epic cycle ride climbs the hills of Uganda. Though his budget doesn't stretch to tracking oversize primates, his slow pace of travel gives him far more penetrating insights into everyday Ugandan life.
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Scorpions and desert storms: cycling Sudan

  • 26/06/2013
  • Charlie Walker
Globetrotting cyclist Charlie Walker pedals south from Wadi Haifa for the long hot journey to the capital, Khartoum.
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Mountains in Iraqi Kurdistan
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Cycling through Kurdistan: welcome to a boom zone

  • 03/06/2013
  • Charlie Walker
The latest installment from Charlie Walker's three-year bike-ride around the world sees him pedal through Iraqi Kurdistan, dodging fast imported cars and endless cups of tea.
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Cycling through Iran
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An all-too white Christmas: Iran by bike

  • 13/03/2013
  • Charlie Walker
Charlie Walker's epic bike ride continues through the Middle East's most hidden society, the shrouded rural areas of Iran. Though the authorities are routinely suspicious, amongst ordinary Iranians he finds nothing but friendliness.
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Camping in the Kyzylkum Desert
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A leisurely pedal across today’s Afghanistan

  • 18/01/2013
  • Charlie Walker
It's hardly a usual destination for a cyclist. But getting a visa is easy so Charlie Walker seizes the opportunity to visit a country that may soon, once more, close its doors to the West.
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A game of polo with a headless goat

  • 13/11/2012
  • Charlie Walker
Charlie Walker pedals slowly through the mountains of once-soviet Kyrgyzstan and borrows a horse for a game of Ulak Tartysh. Sadly the welcome of the locals is not matched by their mirror-shaded authorities.
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Horsing about on the Mongolian steppes

  • 21/08/2012
  • Charlie Walker
Charlie Walker's adventures across central Asia continue with a 600-mile expedition across Mongolia, helped by a horse. Maybe calling the animal 'Nicky' was tempting fate...
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Fair wind to Mongolia: from China on foot

  • 16/07/2012
  • Charlie Walker
It's a long walk from Beijing to Ulaan Baatur. Charlie Walker spends six weeks on the road and though frankly that's fast (to cover 900 miles) he has the occasional adventure on the way. My favourite is the sexual assault, where grannies and toddlers come to his aid.
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Earning a travelling crust in Beijing

  • 03/05/2012
  • Charlie Walker
Charlie Walker parks up his bike to earn some cash in China. Five months in the Chinese capital get him little closer to understanding several mysteries of the Orient. But when a small child pees on his leg he quickly decides it's time to move on.
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Cycling across China: into Beijing

  • 09/12/2011
  • Charlie Walker
The world's most populous nation - and one of the largest too - doesn't deter round-the-world cyclist Charlie Walker who pedals from Vietnam in the south to the northern capital, Beijing - and finds plenty of rural tranquillity along the way.
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Skulls and scams: cycling through Cambodia

  • 28/10/2011
  • Charlie Walker
On his round-the-world cycle ride, Charlie Walker finds his biggest problem, in Cambodia, is too many tourists - and a lot of abandoned skulls.
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Cycling Laos, from north to south

  • 23/06/2011
  • Charlie Walker
World cyclist Charlie Walker pedals his way down small, landlocked Laos but finds plenty of water along the way. Then a scooter crash threatens to derail his trip.
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A long draught of China on a slow-moving bike

  • 12/05/2011
  • Charlie Walker
Charlie Walker is almost a year into an epic four-year cycle-ride that aims to reach the world's 'Four Corners'. With thanks to Lifeboat Tea (his sponsors) he details his experiences of pedalling through mainland China.
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