Day 122 Aug 09 Thu - River frog Camp - Astrakhan

A floating bridge limited to 8 ton vehicles only going to Astrakhan
The kids are dividing their catch of the day
Anglers heaven
This photo specially dedicated to my teh-tarik frens in Malaysia
A hotel only for the Central Asia countries under former Soviet Union

The after effect of riding over the newly sticky black tar on my rear tire
Russian bus stop , very simple and colourful
I really missed this one!
After seeing the floating bridge,now I understand this!
Petrol Station in Russia , the price is slightly higer than Malaysia

Today's Distance: 76 km
Today's Temp: 25 - 36 c
Average Speed: 16.1 max: 38.5
Time on Bike: 4 hr 42 min
Average climb: 2% max: 10%
Trip Altitude: 150 m max: 151 m
Today's spending: 380 RR
Total Distance to date: 7891 km
Total spending to date: 400RR

As Astrakhan is only 61km , we started rather late at 9.30am . Oh! no ,it should be 8.30am as Russian time is one hour later compared to Kazakhstan. My impression of Russia is, the road is very well maintain even in this remote countryside. No potholes,rough surface , absolutely a delight for every cyclists, greeneries with lots of rivers.How I wish I have the time to sit down by the riverside and enjoy fishing the whole day. We rode into Astrakhan at 4.30pm quite easily as the signborad is very clear but having a tough time finding a reasonable price hotel .Victoria Palas is 270 euro a nite .Heather can't afford,neither do I.The 2nd is Azimut hotel for 100usd , kiv first,tried to look for cheaper one ,found 2 but fully occupied and another one but only cater for central Asia countries of fromer Soviet Union. We both gave up and finally settled for Azimut. Astrakhan not a place for backpackers.