Day 108 Jul 26 Thu - Mosquito camp to Kyzylorda
Rundown cafe restaurant hotel in Kyzylorda but nice & cheap room
Our room
Seperated hall completely furnish
Russian word of Kyzylorda
Around Kyzylorda
There are 4 Mercedes limos for hire on wedding occasion
Around Kyzylorda
Two of us finished one whole roasted chicken for 1000TToday's Distance: 71km
Temp: 26 - 36c
Average Speed: 16.0 max: 25.0
Time on Bike: $ hr 23 min
Ave climb: 1% max: 8%
Trip altitude: 80m max: 292 m
Today's spending: 3090
Total Distance to date: 7238km
Total spending to date: 14789 T
Average Speed: 16.0 max: 25.0
Time on Bike: $ hr 23 min
Ave climb: 1% max: 8%
Trip altitude: 80m max: 292 m
Today's spending: 3090
Total Distance to date: 7238km
Total spending to date: 14789 T
As plan today we started early at 7.30am try to avoid headwind and also to reach Kyzylorda early to update our blog. What a beautiful morning with calm & refreshing air . I only needed 4 hours to reach the outskirt of kyzylorda while waiting for Heater in a roadside cafe restaurant. I did not wait for her and straight ordered my favarite "lafman" cos' I am so hungry with no stop earlier,only have twice short water breaks. I waited for almost 2 hour before she appeared and told that she had a flat in her front tyre with a wire cut thru the tube. This is her first flat since leaving Beijing , at least better off than me with a broken rims and forced to ride a few hundreds of km before it finally "dead". Earlier we were stopped at a police check point to check our pasport by 3 policemen there. After flicking thru our pasport , and talking in their language , they don't seem to return our pasport still holding in their hands , We sensed they wanted money but they dare not open their mouth to ask openly, and we have no intention either to off any. Maybe they are waiting for us to off,but we make don't know. Finally , they returned our pasport rather unhappily and empty-handed from a tourist they thought can make some dollars. The ride to town under heavy traffic of trucks loaded with bricks/stones/earth makes the road from bad to worst and the air was flying with the earth dust whenever they zoomed pass. The surprise of the day was we accidentally found this rundown hotel from outside appearance but inside the room was superd and cheap. The man asked for 3000T but I offered him 2000T, knowing well 3000T is already cheap compared to Taraz & Shymkent. It is a suite with carpeted flooring,hotshower bathroom,fridge,TV,sofa & coffee table. But what a pity we only plan to stay one night.
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The sounds of Russian alphabets in Cyrillic letters.
It is named after St. Cyril (Constantine); it was not invented by St. Cyril. It is based on the system of Greek capital letters. If you know the Greek alphabet, many of the letters will be familiar to you.
Mr. Meng, as you haven’t got much time to browsing around, this may help you to check out the names of places. Once u find out the equivalents in Roman alphabets, it just sounds like the one you’re familiar with - Bahasa Malaysia. As you will be Russia, Ukraine, Belo…It may help.
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HI Meng,i am from Slovenia(ex Yugoslavia)now working in K.L.,so i am prety familiar with east Europe.Rusians are also very friendly,but crime is on rise after colapse of USSR.So just be careful.But more worying countriesw are Romania ang Bulgaria,there are many road bands,specialy for robbing trucks,so if you plan to pass thru this countries,be very careful.Need any more info about Europe,ask me.And i realy wish to meet you after your return to KL.My email:albatrosbran@yahoo.com All the best to both from Brane
Thanks Xiao Wong and Brane , I will try my very best to avoid any unsafe incident and I started to recognise some russian words.Yes, Brane, I will certainly needs your help in Europe. Internet in Kazakhstan very expensive , keeps communicating.
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