We made it to Sworde Teppa in Tajikistan!

Tajikistan threw some interesting challenges at us - firstly we arrived at a bridge crossing at 10am after following a dirt track for 2 hours, only to find that the bridge was closed until 7pm that evening! A local restaurant owner let us sit in his garden and pick apricots off his trees for most of the day and we met up with 3 other teams, team wolfson, if genghis can we can and a red fiesta.

At 6.30pm we crossed the bridge and had to drive on through the night - the road was only open at night as there were road works during the day. We ascended into the mountains and had several stops because of things like stretching credibility loosing all their lights whilst driving up a sand bank and gengis cans sump guard dropping off. Then we found the tunnel… 4 feet deep in water and about 5 miles long! Our car breezed through, being 4 wheel drive, but the micras struggled and we had to tow out Gengis Can.

Despite all that we arrived at Sworde Teppa on Friday 8th August and have been staying here for the weekend. We gave them the white water raft, disco ball, kids games, stationery and other bits and pieces, which they absolutely love. We`ve seen the building including the english library and movie room. We`ve decided to put all future donations towards Sworde Teppa because we know the money is going to really worthwhile stuff and isnt wasted on expensive cars and stuff.

New Donation link: www.justgiving.com/boarswordeteppa

Once again thanks to everyone and all the companies who sponsored us and helped us get this far!

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