Chapters

The Motorcycle Diary from the beginning, in order.
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Before the road

  1. ·Prologue: The call to adventure
  2. 1A stone in my boot
  3. 2Tomorrow I go!

Europe and Turkey

  1. 3Take the leap and the net will follow
  2. 4Freedom or loneliness?
  3. 5Farmers, philosophers and the gods
  4. 6Some cities come into our lives for a reason, a season, or a lifetime

The Caucasus

  1. 7The Black Sea, fallen empires and rising tempers
  2. 8The mountain and the warrior
  3. 98000-year-old wine and 300-metre targets
  4. 10Youngest world record holder in the oldest country
  5. 11Wolves, flowers, and Kiki the Kawasaki
  6. 12The path of the ronin: a history of violence

Russia and Central Asia

  1. 13From Russia with love
  2. 14Step by step through the steppes
  3. 15The land of mountain nomads
  4. 16The Pamir Highway: Tajikistan to Afghanistan

Afghanistan and Pakistan

  1. 17Return to Kabul
  2. 18Tripistan

India

  1. 19Scramble for peace: northern India
  2. 20Rishikesh: Circe’s Island
  3. 21Rishikeshing
  4. 22Kumbh Mela: the world’s largest human gathering
  5. 23The mountains and the spores
  6. 24Escaping Circe’s Island
  7. 25India to Nepal

Nepal and the Himalaya

  1. 26Nepal: Buddhas and gangsters
  2. 27Silence and the storm
  3. 28Pokhara: from the lakes to the hills
  4. 29F**k you, Surke
  5. 30The mountain door
  6. 31Namche Bazar
  7. 32Pangboche: pride and remorse
  8. 33Everest Base Camp
  9. 34Lobuche East, 6189m
  10. 35Nepal to Tibet: the highest of highs, the lowest of lows

Tibet and China

  1. 36Enter the dragon
  2. 3714 days in Tibet

Mexico

  1. 38Dad