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Bureaucra'stan
We took the marshrukta from Bishkek to Almaty and made it easily across the land border - to the amazement of the driver waiting on the Kazakhstan side, who told us he thought we'd be the last back on the bus. Our plan was to spend a couple of days in Almaty, see the city and get our Uzbekistan Visa, then head by overnight train to Turkistan - see …
Finally, an oasis!
My westward push continues, and I'm in Kazakhstan. It wasn't without some effort, as the border crossing from China took six hours. The Chinese customs turned my rucksack inside out, and the infallibly polite Kazakhs sent legions of troops and officials down the train to check everything you can think of. We then had another two hours to wait while …
Around Almaty: chairs and visas
... through some impressive traffic jams (in part due to extensive construction) to the consulate of Tajikistan to get the ball rolling on the remaining visas asap. As mentioned before this was no problem. As luck would have it, next door was a auto workshop with a bunch of off road vehicles outside. We "talked" to the manager (a stately and proud Russian man) who told us to come back next morning.
We still have a bunch of stuff to take care of while in Almaty, such ...
Tyres Galore!
Plan today is to cover the remaining few hundred kilometres to the former Kazakh capital Almaty.
The road South was an interesting change in scenery from desert plains, to green pastures to the impressive mountain backdrop complete with snow behind Almaty. Whilst most of the road condition has been good from Astana, there were stretches today with deep ruts and high ridges, evidence of years of ...
Phin - Stans
... beach in a summer shopping centre, lots of Norman Foster. After a lot of walking, some express truism we headed back stumbled across a castle looking building which turned out to be a micro brewery, more beers from the shop on the way back to the hostel, Sarah walking into a window, some crazy dancing in the room and a lot of gibberish meant another amazing day. Off we headed back to the old capital Almaty, left to ruin, via the 2nd fastest train in 2nd class (amazingly soooo ...
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