Jul 12 2008
Kazakhstan - Qandiagash to Toretam
Gravel road
the usual escort in villages
Sign in the steppe
Downpour
Too muddy
Big steppe
Swedish polo to Mongolia
Another storm coming
Too much mud
Stuck in the mud
The M32 Motorway
Piste for 100km between Irgiz and Aral
M32
More mud
Camel on the road
The end of the Ural mountains near Shelkar
Sand or gravel?
Looking for the piste from Shelkar to Aral
Cafe 150m
Between Qandiagash and Shalkar
Sending an email in a village canteen
nap
Another bivouac in the empty steppe
Pushing in the sand (nr Shalkar)
Pulling the bike in the mud
Bivouac after another muddy day
Kazakh steppe = Far West
Too much vodka
Kamaz driver
Inside a Kamaz
Bikes in Kamaz to escape the mud between Irgiz and Aral
Storm in Aral
Aral hotel
Hotel in Aral
The disused port in Aral
Rusting ship in Aral
Looking towards the port of Aral where the sea used to be
What is left of the Aral sea in Aral
Old Aral port
Haha!
Aral market
Camel in Aral centre
Another Arnaud met in Aral, on an old Kawasaki
Police checkpoint outside Aral where I fell off
To the hospital after my shoulder dislocation (The spoon is to bite when we hit the bumps on the road)
The doctor's office
My hospital bed
Escape from the hospital in Aral after they relocated my shoulder
Frog train
Scorpion found under the tent
Free Tibet
Yurt in the steppe
Waiting for the bus near Baikonur
Bikes in the bus between Baikonur and Shimkent
Satellite station near Baikonur
