Blogs from Ust-Kamenogorsk, East Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan, Asia

The border crossing between Siberia and Kazakhstan was easy, no major problems, We drove into the city of Semey to register ourselves, the registration is a bit complicated, it would take hours to do and the forms have to be filled up in Cyrillic Russian. I thought it was ridiculous, as we copy the Cyrillic letters from Sasha's form, we don't understand a thing. While waiting for all this bureaucracy to finish our cook group shopped, we could not find eggs somehow nobody sells them or may have already ran out of it cause it's late afternoon.The fruits are expensive, the guy was saying this melon from Tajikistan or from Uzbekistan, trying to justify the steep price tags. The apples though are quite cheap and very delicious, The vendors are so friendly they gave us samples ... read more