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Crossed Russian-Kazakhstan border late last night and got sleeping place from old train just 15km from border 31.7.2010 3:31:30

From Astana we planned to start going forward with a breakfast at the hotel. In this hotel breakfast started as late as 08:00, so we actually got around 09:00 to the road again. Plan was to drive as close to Russian border as possible. Once we got out from the …

For this day we had last night agreed to stay in Astana. I was going to get my motor oil and filter changed, had already 9000 kilometres from the last one back at local BMW dealer in Antalya. While searching for a place using Google I managed to find one …

At 07:00 we started packing our bikes again, long way to go for this day. When driving along Lake Balkhash we had very heavy side wind which slowed us down a lot. Road was in pretty good condition except one part: At first we saw one car which had rolled …

This time day started without any breakfast and quite early. We had some issues finding hotel stuff on this early hour in morning, but eventually we got them and they came to open the backdoor for us to get bikes out on the road. Right after we left from Toktogul …

Morning came again and it was time to leave from Sary-Tash. From the bicyclist we had already learned that we would go into some high mountain passes again, road would be under construction for the first 70 kilometres or so. There were Chinese road workers everywhere building new road over …

This was the day we start approach towards Kyrgyzstan and Sary-Tash. There was so much on the news about situation in there so we were a bit waiting mode to see what was the current situation over there. Day started with usual breakfast followed by packing of bikes. There were …

Morning started a bit later than usual as we had agreed to have some service for the bikes. Got some breakfast first with couple other tourists in Pamir Lodge. After this I headed to town to find a place where to get my tyres changed, plan was to switch from …

After sleeping outside day started again quite early up in the mountain. Daylight revealed the river where we washed up last night and we started packing our stuff again: During the night it had rained quite a lot so roads were a bit wet, but views were just great! Very …

At Ayni we started day early. Now we were me, Kari and Anders driving together which was actually very good since the roads started getting worse and worse. At first we were driving excellent roads, new asphalt on the road and everything looked good. Then we missed one turn that …