Day 113 Jul 31Tue - Aral'sk -Arranging Train Ride to Atyrau

Today's spending: 1450T
Total Distance to date: 7495km
Total spending to date:21414T



Based on our calculation , we had no choice but to hop on a train ride from Aral'sk to Atyrau,and then bike a distance of 300km to the Russian border town of Astrakhan. The reasons being:


1) My Kazakhstan Visa will expires on 10/8 and Heather's one on 9/8 , so that left only 1 week.
2) The distance from Aral'sk to the Russian border is 1599km,no way we can cover this in 1 week.
3) Information from the Kiwi bikers Arnold/Merike,the road is terribly rough with lots of pot holes and gravels.
So the only sensible way is to take the train. At the Aral Tehizi information centre,we engaged their help to arrange for train ticket and also the bike transportation , as the staffs in train station don't speak English. There is internet service at the centre where I done my updated my blog. It will be Heather's turn as only one computer is available. 300T for an hour, quite expansive but still cheaper than the one in Kyzylorda. Also I changed USD 100 to 1220.20T at the bank.