Day 81 Jun 29 Fri - 24 hr Truck ride to Osh

Today's Distance: 6 km
By Truck: 121 km
Temp: 18 -36 c
Average Speed: 18 max:20.2
Time on Bike:20 min
Ave climb:1% max: 3%
Trip altitude:34 m max:1240m
Today's spending:565 som
Total Distance to date:5633km
Total spending to date:1905 som

The truck journey continued slowly up the mountains and down. sometimes it stop for repaired and checking for this & that but we were too tired to ask what the problem.The truck that I'm sitting,the driver' name is Shukrubach,21 yrs old,know a bit of English so I keep talking to him so that he won't feel sleepy and boring.and also for my own safety too.Heather is on another truck.The driver is earning abt 100 US dollars a mth and he said is alrdy a good pay in Kyrgyzstan.So is a good extra money for them by getting 25 US from us.Along the way,many shepherds' yurt can be seen setting up only in summer for horses,sheeps.cows as here whole area is full of grassland.We passed Saritash at 9.00am but the truck driver did not want to stop for breakfast even I requested,maybe they had their own reason.We were drop off at the roadside 6km to Osh and we met a formerly east German cyclist Stephen who has stay 2 nites in Osh.He is riding solo from Istanbul to Tibet.Taj Mahal Hotel is where we stay for 300 som each.Food hunting after clean up,a bowl of beef soup,lamb skewers and a pot of Chinese tea cost 180 som.The expenses here is rather expensive as compared to China.