Kazakh Border

The Kazakh border guards were very friendly and quite amused at 3 cyclists turning up at their remote outpost with perfectly good 3-day transit visas!

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Kazakhstan Welcomes the Bikepackers

August 24th 2006
Day 82, 21st August Nalymovo - Makuchino - Zotino We’ve been sleeping twelve-hour nights because the days are getting shorter. The day was spent going along quieter, straight roads. Good weather, the wind behind us. We drank lots of coffee, ate at cafes, and near the last police checkpoint (where they wanted to see our Kazakh transit visas) a few miles before the border, we drank lots of b ... read more

Asia » Kazakhstan

Native Kazakhs, a mix of Turkic and Mongol nomadic tribes who migrated into the region in the 13th century, were rarely united as a single nation. The area was conquered by Russia in the 18th century and Kazakhstan became a Soviet Republic in 1936. D... ... read more

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