Once again, a large proportion of our day was spent trying to pay for our stupid letter of invitation we need to get our Uzbekistan visa - and once again the day ended without success!! Though with all the help we're getting from Mumbles, Dad Denton, and Mindy it's a nice reminder than we have such great family back home willing to help out. It even helps to decrease the anger at Moneybookers who have a silly verification system which doesn't work!!
After trying for a few hours to sort the problem out, we gave up and made our way to the train station to buy tickets for out of Almaty! We were a little worried about buying tickets because we can't speak any of the language - but we wrote the destination and date we wanted, and soon enough we had our 3rd class tickets to Turkistan on Tuesday! Perfect!
While at the station we met a couple of Brits who have been travelling the world for 8 months - they had initially planned to stay longer in Kazakhstan but found the same thing we and many others have found: it's too expensive to stay! While they waited for their train to Shymkent we hung out in the train station bar and had a few beers. It's always nice to meet fellow travellers - and believe it or not they had heavier packs than us and were less organised than us! Is than even possible??!!
Liv spent the evening with a pack of chips and a book, and Adam spent it with his head in the toilet ...
Adlibing it with tickets!
Sunday, August 24, 2008
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