With deserts and mountains, ancient cities and little-known tribes, the republics of Central Asia offer drama, intrigue and natural wonders galore
August 2012
Bangers and cash: driving in the Central Asia Rally
You buy an old car in Budapest and drive it 5,000 miles across Russia and the Stans, stopping only to pay the odd bribe. Jamie Lafferty joins the first Central Asia Rally
July 2010
My travels
My travels: Nicholas Jubber in Tajikistan
The poems of a 10th-century minstrel and tales of extraordinary hospitality sent the author to the Soghd region
January 2010
Letter from
Tajikistan: two worlds and a river that runs through
Chris Alexander on the border between Afghanistan and Tajikistan, where vodka is traded for heroin
December 2009
Books blog
Dictator-lit: The Tajiks in the Mirror of History
Daniel Kalder: Historically spurious and spiritually confused, Emomalii Rahmon's presidential history of Tajikistan plays fast and loose with notions of national identiity, but it could have been far, far worse ...
August 2008
Travel writing competition 2008
Adventure: Blue Spanish skies
A new mountain path leads hikers into a time warp far from Mallorca's tourist hubbub, says Mark Lunn
