A Pictorial So Far

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Cheerio England!

First car-related purchase: Top Gun soundtrack

Through the Swiss Alps

Camping next to Lake Como, Italy

Driving through some awesome mountain passes in northern Italy

Massive and ancient tree on the Croatian coast

Waterfalls in Bosnia

Mostar, Bosnia

At the Bosnia-Serbia border, trying to buy temporary insurance for the car. Our green-card insurance had expired before we entered Serbia, so we had to take a five-hour detour to buy insurance for three days in the country.

Fast-forward to central Turkey, first time the thermometer went sub-zero

But fortunately it climbed back up when we got out of the mountains and onto the plateau

Eastern Anatolia, Turkey

Trying to outrun winter and failing

At the ancient ruins of the medieval Armenian capital of Ani

Near Mt. Ararat, Turkey, supposed resting place of Noah’s Ark.

Finally in Iran; much colder than expected

At the Milad Tower in Tehran, 6th-highest tower in the world.

Skiing at the resort of Dizin, north of Tehran. 4-wheel drive: Engaged.

In desperate need of a wash, but camouflaged nicely.

At an orchard near the Caspian Sea, in northern Iran.

Looking out over a bleak grey-and-brown Caspian Sea.

Tune-up in Tehran. The mechanic had not seen a Nissan before.

Excellent advice, doubly so in Iran

Filling up with the big boys in central Iran. Cost of a tank of diesel: $7.

Squeezed into a back alley in Yazd, Iran, one of the oldest cities in the world

At the Towers of Silence outside of Yazd. Zoroastrians, instead of burying their dead, would leave them at the top of these towers to be picked clean by carrion birds.

Record-setting temperature: 72 degrees centigrade. We went in winter, so it never went higher than 22.

The Dasht-e Lut desert in eastern Iran.

Camping out in the desert

In convoy through the lawless Iran-Pakistan frontier with some other plucky travellers

Diesel pals: With a Land Cruiser from Italy in the Pakistan desert

Spent the night in a police compound in western Pakistan. The road is not navigable by night, for fear of potholes and bandits.

Looking fresh after an extensive cleaning in Islamabad, Pakistan

Up the Karakoram Highway, the 8th Wonder of the World. Just 5425 km to Beijing.

In front of Nanga Parbat (mostly obscured by clouds), the “Killer Mountain” and ninth highest in the world

Despite the foreign plates, the car has a knack for blending in.

The last drivable part of the Karakoram Highway before taking a boat: A landslide in 2010 destroyed a huge chunk of the highway, and a freshly formed lake flooded 25 km of the road.

Into India!