Day 100 Juyl 18 Wed - Taraz to Starlight camp, 77km to Shymkent

Hotel room in Taraz cost 4500T
Service my bike at the balcony
Hotel Taraz
Around Taraz

Today's Distance: 108 km

Temp: 25 - 41c
Average Speed: 17.3 max: 55.5
Time on Bike: 6 hr 14 min
Ave climb: 2% max:11%
Trip altitude: 696m max: 1270m
Today's spending: 970T
Total Distance to date: 6666km
Total spending to date:3225T

We had a nice beautiful campsite near a small stream and a sky full of stars at nite,we were sitting outside our tents while enjoying our hot coffee . Can you believe this ? we saw 2 shooting stars within 5 min .And instantly I made 2 best wishes that me & my bike will stay healty and fit all the way to London and second is , safely without any untoward incidents. Another hot day ride right fr the morning 9 am till 8 pm and we carried extra water for camping.Road surface is slightly better,much more greenery and vegetable growing field at the valley. One thing I learned pretty well is that - Ask for the price first b4 you order your food! First stall charges us 170 T per lamb skewer when it normally cost 1/2 of that in Kyrgyzstan. and when the suger on the table she wanted to charge 35T,that is when I show my angry face,then the price started to drop,but stii we are not happy. 2nd stall for a bottle of Pepsi, at first 100T,then 120T ,we agreed on 120T,while drinking 1/2 way ,the lady comes and say "sorry,the price is actaully 130T"No..NO..NO we are not paying 130T,we agreed only on 120T b4 we ordered. They knew we are tourist,but we are not stupid anymore after our first experience.