The sole purpose of today was to make a border hop back to Kazakhstan. At the border we waited an antagonising 2 hours as our marshrutka driver battled to get through the backed up traffic at customs, and at 5pm we rolled into a familiar Almaty in an unfamiliar part of town. We did what the adlibers do best and found a public bus going our way and jumped on with our packs.
We made our way to the same hotel we stayed at last time, where the friendly owner greeted us with a smile of remembrance and we were soon settled in our room - the 4000 Tenge price (over $NZ40), though cheap for Almaty, is a big jump from the $10 we were paying in Bishkek. We then changed some money, got a doner kebab for dinner from our 'local' across the road, and made our way to push through last minute research for our descent into India tomorrow.
Adlibing expensive Almaty again.
Friday, September 26, 2008
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