Intrepid Journeys - Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan (Glen Osborne)

Well, I've travelled the world as a pro rugby player, but with full-on rugby tours a bloke never really feels that he can get to absorb the culture and the country he visits. But now, I've been given the opportunity to travel in a very different way, through two countries I never knew existed.

– Presenter Glen Osborne introduces this Intrepid Journey

I'm not too fancy when it comes to the architectural style of different buildings. A building to me just looks like a bloody building, mate. I wanna go and meet the people! That's what I'm here for, to meet the people, not look at bloody buildings.

– Presenter Glen Osborne

It's not relaxing — at all!

– Presenter Glen Osborne suffers through a Turkish massage

The people are definite highlights for me. I travelled to so many countries in my rugby career, and I suppose it just disappoints me, in a way, that I've lost that opportunity in my younger days to experience so many beautiful things that I could've experienced.

– Presenter Glen Osborne, reflects on his trip as it comes to a close

That tasted like rotten milk or rotten something.

– Presenter Glen Osborne spits out Kyrgyz drink shoro, a salty fermented drink

It stung a little bit, but the worst thing about it was getting whipped with a lot of naked men watching.

– Presenter Glen Osborne after being whipped with birch branches in a busy sauna