After going to bed early the previous evening, we got up pretty early (at least for our standards) - by doing so, we avoided having to pack up our tent with the sun blazing down at us. When we were done, we got back onto the main Autobahn which led us straight towards Almaty. In the city, we headed straight to "Freerider KZ" - a combined workshop, hostel and motorcycle dealer. Staying there seemed like a good idea as we were going to wait for a…
We woke up relatively early in the morning and packed up our tent. Even though it was still relatively early, we could already feel the sun burning onto our skin while we were standing in the sun. To reach the "Singing Dune", we took the only road which led us further into the national park. Starting from the ranger station, it was a ride of around 40km to reach the dune. Almost the entirety of these 40km consisted of the harshest washboards we had ridden on…
The great day for Fabi's wishes to come true had finally come. We woke up pretty early, ate the breakfast provided by our hosts and packed our luggage. Before heading for the national park, we returned to the guesthouse where the owner had directed us to our actual accomodation. The lady was there and Fabi inquired about the possibility to rent horses. Upon hearing the question she bent her brows but after thinking about our request for a second, she walked to a neighboring house. After…
In the night it had been pretty cold for our thin summer sleeping bags resulting in us freezing a little, next time we maybe should add some clothes to our pyjamas to keep ourselves warm. But once the sun started to climb up the sky in the morning, temperatures promptly started to increase again skipping the "nice fresh morning" temperature range and going straight to "uncomfortably hot". Back on the road we rode to the official entry to the Charyn Canyon national park. In order to…