 Thank you so much, sweetheart. It's so sunny this morning. Wow. Bumblebee is making friends. So not just Mongolia, Kyrgyzstan is as well a big, big petting zoo. Good morning world. Welcome back to our circumnavigation around the globe by motorcycle. Good morning, Bumblebee. Good morning, Bumblebee. We're here at the stunning Songkul Lake in Kyrgyzstan. And it's been a beautiful morning with the birds and the cows. But it's been actually a horrible night. I was freezing cold. The wind came in constantly. During the day here, it was actually really, really warm. But then we are at 3,000 meters above sea level. So during the night, it got really cold. So in the middle of the night, we just like put on all of our clothes. Yesterday, we asked to sleep in one of the yurts here. But can you believe it? All yurts are booked out. And those yurts had a fireplace. So I was pretty jealous last night. Me too. But the sun is up and it's getting hotter by the second. So let me show you guys where we're heading today. So we are here. And today we're gonna be continuing our way southwest in the direction of the city of Osh on the border to Uzbekistan. Yes, we are heading further into the mountains of Kyrgyzstan. And I'm super excited to see what's ahead. We had a bit of tough road already coming to this lake. Pretty crazy road, actually, at the end. But I think it's gonna get even tougher today. So we don't know exactly how far we're gonna get or what's happened today. But it will be awesome. It's gonna be an adventure. Yes, so we still have to pack up everything and it's already 7.30. So better hit the road. Let's go. Okay. Here we go. One, two, three. Yup. Okay. All right, ready to rock and roll? Yep. All right, let's do it. Yes. You can see these guys are corralling their little mini herd of cows this morning. Hello. Good morning, everyone. Good morning. Another tent bar. Nice. So I don't know exactly how we're gonna get back. Ah, yeah. Look, there's like that little gate thing. Yeah, that's probably the entrance. I'm just kind of following this track. Yeah. Exciting day ahead. Woo hoo. Oh yeah, it's gonna be a challenge today, I reckon. But I don't know, we just have to start the day with the determination to face it and be like, yes, we are gonna do the dirt road. Whatever it is, we're just gonna ride it. Yeah, like you said, just embrace yourself, eh? Embrace the shake. That's what I say. Yeah. Starting with the challenge of actually getting on the road. Yeah. Yeah, that'll be all right. You think? Yeah. Okay. All right, here you go. Challenge number one, overcome. Yes. I hope we will have 90% of a road like that here because this is a nice dirt road, you know? No problem. No problem. And look at the view ahead, hey? Stunning. Look at that. And now we have to go up and over. Yeah, I saw on the map a lot of switchbacks. So I don't know if that's switchbacks up or switchbacks down. We're already at 3,000 meters, so how high are we gonna go? Yeah, exactly. I don't think that it's that high actually, yeah. I don't know. Kyrgyzstan has mountains over 7,000 meters high. This is some serious mountains here. Yeah. Kyrgyzstan roadblock. Oh yeah, going all across now. Yeah, no problem. Yeah. Oh, look at this view. Wow, we just came up and over a little pass and this looks like a crazy road down ahead. Oh my God, it does. So that answers our question whether the switchbacks were up or down. They are down. Wow. Wow. Nice and easy, nice and slow. Okay. Woo. All right, let's check out these switchbacks, eh? Yeah. Whoa, look at that. So we're gonna be going around here and then yit, yit, yit, yit down. Yeah, down, baby. Wow, crazy. Wow. Yeah, that's gonna be some kind of down. Look at that. Yeah. And I don't even know where it goes. It goes like all the way down to the bottom there where the trees are. I know. Oh my God. Look at the trees. Look at them. They're just like little pointy things, you know? Yeah. They don't look like trees. Yeah, it looks like they've copy and pasted, like loads of sort of like drawings of trees. Yes, exactly. Honestly, it looks like a painting here. Hey there, man. And it's quite nice to go down, actually. Yes. As long as I make the turns. Oh yeah, wow. What a view, hey? What a view. What a view in the morning. It looks magical, man. Absolutely magical. Look, it just goes down and down and down. Yes. Wow. Yes, I don't know where it's going to run. I don't know, that's where we're going. We're going down there. Wow. What, what, what? What happened? Oh no. Okay, hold on, I'm coming to the side. Okay. So, ladies and gentlemen, the drone has crashed again. Let me go and get it. I see it. I see it, I see it, I see it. Let's see if we've got any rotor blade broken or anything broken. Oh, okay. Can I grab it? Okay. Let's see what's going on. Okay. One rotor blade has a tiny, tiny chip in the end of it. Camera and gimbal look good. All the arms look good. I think it might be all right. I don't know if this wing tip is going to affect the flight. I think it's not. Literally the tiniest little chip out of it. Probably about a centimeter off the end. It should be able to still fly like that. Now we know that on active track mode, where it's tracking us riding along, it can crash itself into a tree. Yes. The drone is still working. Let's try camera down. Yes. Camera up. Yes. Do a little spin around. Oh, it's great. Oh, it's still working. Yes. That's good. Good news. The drone will live to fly another day. What an epic pass here. It's really, really beautiful. Kyrgyzstan, you surprised me. There we go. We've reached the valley floor. And we made it in one piece. There we go. That's the most important thing. I just want to get through Kyrgyzstan without breaking anything on me or on the bike. Yes. But it's absolutely stunning here. Like seriously, wow. Yeah, I can't get over how nice this is. When Kinga from on her bike suggested like, she's like, guys, don't just go across Kazakhstan. Go into Kyrgyzstan. Go and see the mountains. You won't regret it. Well, she was totally right. She was totally right. Wow, look at this. We're really coming down into the gorge now. Wow. Whoa, look at this. What a mental way, hey? Absolutely something else here. Oh my God, I don't want to know like, how are the cars doing on the way up, you know? Yeah, look at this car. It's like a really old car. It's like a 50 years old. Good luck, buddy. Good luck, buddy. We've reached civilization again. Woo! And it's really funny because they always have like, a little bit of tarmac in the towns. And you're always like, oh yeah, that's so nice. So smooth. But as soon as you go out the other side, it's gone. Everything gone. Yeah, there should be a petrol station. Yeah, just ahead. Well, fuel up. Yeah. It's always good. We just don't know how often we're going to see petrol stations. Yeah. I mean, it's crazy. It looks like such a big road here. But then, yeah. Apparently as soon as we're leaving the town, it's gone. It's over. Let's see if there is somebody. I saw another thing just back there. Yeah, but this looked empty. Empty. I'll do that. Look abandoned. Yeah. I mean, this one looks abandoned as well. Yeah, it does actually. Maybe you have to, ah. To the window. OK. Hello. Oh, OK. OK, back up. So we just stopped here to get a little bit supplies. We got some water and some fried bread. Oh, wow. Look at that. This is made by the lady here in the shop, Sambat. Nice. Yeah, let's try it, hey? Yeah. Wow. With a heart. Wow, cool. Rahmat. Rahmat. Really cool. Rahmat, thank you. Canada. Canada. Look at that bike. Wow, electric. Electric. Oh, the cool. Rahmat, thank you. Jack Shibar. Oh, did you remember what is goodbye? Jack Shibar. Jack Shibar. I think so. I don't know if I'm pronouncing it right. Yeah, she tried to teach me five times, but I didn't get it. Oh, what a nice lady, really. What a tasty fried bread, that was, hey? We went and got a second one because it was just so nice. Keep fried bread. I'm up for it. Yeah. For sure. So now, after a little refresh, we have 60 miles left to reach a town called Kazarman. In Kazarman, we're going to decide what to do, whether we're going to stay in the town or whether we're going to continue on further. Let's see how long it takes to get there, hey? Yes. Hello. Hello. Kazarman. This way. No, no, this way. Ah, this way. Asfalta. Is this way all tarmac? No, no, no. This one, no. Ah, no, no. No, gravel. Which way is easier for us? Which way is easier? This way. OK, how many kilometers? I don't know. OK, one hour, two hours. Two hours. Probably 100. No, no, no, no. More. More. More. Five. Five. Five hours. Five. Five hours. But he says it's all asphalt. Yeah, but five hours. Asphalt. OK, OK. We don't have internet, do we, or do we? Voice translation isn't available. Kazarman? One hour, two hours, three hours? Four hours. Four hours, OK. Kazarman, this road? No, five hours. Ah, OK. OK. Four hours. OK. Rahmat, Rahmat, thank you. Rahmat. Bye-bye. Interesting. Interesting, wow. So the local people think that there's another road that's going that way, which is not tarmac, and that takes five hours. This road, which is tarmac, takes four hours. Yeah. Wow. But Google says it's an hour and a half. Yeah, what Google says there is another road which doesn't exist, which is one and a half hours. Google is completely wrong. Some people we spoke to earlier, they said that they came from the other road, which follows the valley back where we came from. But they said the road was quite bad. But it's only 60 miles, so I really have no idea if this is a mistake to do this detour. Yeah. But I mean, if it's tarmac all the way, it's going to give us a good rest by it, because tomorrow we've got plenty of dirt roads. Yeah. So I don't know, maybe it is a good idea just to take a nice winding tarmac road instead. I mean, to be fair, these are locals, yeah? They should normally know, right? Yeah, I mean, if they said Casaraman this way, then I mean, that's the way we should go. Yeah, exactly. OK, so now we're a little bit confused. Because clearly, this is not tarmac. Yes, and it's actually the second section now. It does look like it's under construction. Yeah. But I just wonder, like, how much of this way is going to be like this, you know? Yeah, I know. We managed to have a check on Google Maps. We got a little bit of signal. And it seems like the way that we're going now is 100 miles to Casaraman. And the way that we could have gone on the dirt road was 60 miles to Casaraman. It's really difficult to know, but this is definitely a longer way. So if it becomes a longer way, and we're on gravel the whole time, then that's going to be a bit of a mistake, then, isn't it? Yeah, definitely. But I mean, we asked, like, a bunch of different people. And everybody's like, yeah, yeah. And now it's there's no asphalt anymore. Yeah. So I have no idea what that's about. No idea. So we can only hope that a few miles down the road, we're going to hit asphalt again. Otherwise, we've got 100 miles instead of 60 miles to do. Oh, no. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, that's not asphalt here, is it? It's certainly not. I'm going to ask this car as well. Hello. Casarman, this way. Casarman? Is it asphalt or no? Asphalt, no. No asphalt. I put it out of you. Like this, the Casarman. OK. Thank you. Oh, we are a little bit stuck. OK, so how far would it be to go back? We took the wrong way. So the petrol station is 28 miles. OK, so 30 miles back and then 60 miles road, or possibly 100 miles road, like this. What do you think? Asphalt, no. OK. OK, like this. OK, like that, no asphalt. And we already did 30 miles in this section. OK, so you think we should just carry on on this road? Yeah, because the other way is now the same, you know? 100 miles back and round, or 100 miles forwards. Yeah. I mean, maybe it is easier. Maybe the road is better, but either way, it's just up to our journey time now. If we've got 100 miles to do now, it's going to be at least four hours. Yeah. So, yeah, it looks like we've got quite a way to go now. And there's a rain cloud up ahead. Look at that. Let's see if we get rained on as well today. Yeah. I just saw like a big lightning strike over there. And that's not going to be very good if that comes towards us. No, we want to follow the sun, not the storm. Anyway, it looks like quite blue skies in the direction we're going. So as long as we can get past this, then we'll be all right. Yeah. So we just came down into this valley and then another storm in front. Now I think we definitely could get wet. Yeah. So it's really started to rain on us now. We're going to put our rain clothes on, and I've got to put the media mod for the GoPro away. So that'll be the end of the talking for now. What can happen? The sun came out. Look there. Yeah, it's still raining up on the hill behind us. We just asked a local on a bike, actually. He came past and he's like, oh, four hours. That's what they said at the beginning. They said like, oh, four hours to Kazaman. And then he's like, four hours to Kazaman. So I don't know. We've made like 20, 25 miles out of 100. So we've got a long way to go. We're just going to eat some muffins, drink a bit of water, and then continue. I mean, we were asking for the adventure. Hey, that's it. Adventure has come to us. Got it, yes. A beautiful cemetery, like the same in Kazakhstan. It's a little bit tarmac. I think it might have been tarmac a long time ago. But now it's like, I mean, look at this. Yeah, not much tarmac left. These villages here, they are so in the middle of nowhere. I'm really impressed, actually, how traditional people living here. They've got a three hour road just to get to the town that we're heading to tonight, which is not even a big place, it's a tiny town. And that's like the biggest place around this area. So these guys are really in the middle of nowhere here. Yeah, I mean, in the middle of nowhere, but surrounded by the most epic nature. Yeah, they've certainly got that. Yeah, this part of Kyrgyzstan is still so remote. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, where we are now, Bishkek, is just like, it's just a world away. It's a different country, Bishkek, from here. For sure. Coming through a beautiful Wildflower Valley at the moment, and the road has become quite a lot smaller, to be honest. Yeah. And we can see on the map, quite a few switchbacks coming up, so I don't know what it's gonna look like ahead. Oh wow, these are all bees. Oh my goodness. Whoa, oh my goodness. Oh my God, oh my goodness. It's okay. You're not a bumblebee. Yeah, bumblebee and bumblebee's friends, hey. Exactly, but the truck will wait for a second. Yeah, he's pulling over for us. That's nice. Yeah, no wonder they put bees here. I mean, there's tons of flowers here. Yeah. Oh yeah, here's the switchbacks going up there. Climbing up, up, up. Yeah, climbing, climbing. Yeah, wow. 40 miles to go. Yeah. Wow. Oh my Lord. Whoa, look at this on the other side. Yeah, totally, look at that. I feel like we could almost just kind of... Go straight. Go straight, yeah. Who needs all these switchbacks? After quite a lot of boring roads, it's quite nice to see a bit of landscape, hey. Oh my God, we had so many miles of just straight, flat in the valley. I can see my back, you know. Yeah. I really can't see my back. I need to do some stretching. Yeah. It's so funny when you think about that we actually wanted to not go the other way. We wanted to avoid a 60 mile dirt road. Yes. And now we end up on 100 mile dirt road. Yes. I'm just surprised that the locals really thought that this road is way easier than the other road. We just have to imagine that the other road is like insanely difficult. At least we saved ourselves that. Yeah, exactly. I kind of want to ride it now to see how difficult it is. Oh yeah, there we go. It was bound to happen, wasn't it? Eventually, the stupid mudguard screw is gone again. So yeah, the difficulty here is that the other one is an Allen key. And we lost our set of Allen keys in our Matty. So we don't really have a way to open it. Maybe two cable ties through it. Yeah, nearly there. So it's currently half past four and we have about 30 miles still to go. Maybe like one more hour and we're there. There it is. Kazerman. We made it. Oh, speed bump. Oh, wow. Wow. And look what we've got here in Kazerman. Tarmac. Wow, that was a long journey. Yeah, it's currently half past five. So that means since leaving that little shop where we had some bread and the petrol station, it took us seven hours to get from there to here. Yeah, seven hours to do 130 miles. That's insane. And I thought that we were gonna arrive here too early and that we would have to be like, it's not far enough. It's like, oh my God. Oh my God. We've been on the bike in total nine and a half hours today. Yeah. So yeah, it's enough. It's enough. Kazerman is enough. Yeah, for sure. So we found one hostel here in Kazerman on Ai Overlander and it's just four minutes from here. So we will just ride there now and check it out. Hello. This one, hospitality Kyrgyzstan. Hello. Do you live here? Yes? Your house? Yes? What is your name? Thank you. Me, I'm Lavi here. Lavi here. And this is Oli here. Can I ask your, your mom and mama? Good evening, guys. We made it. Happy new lives. I never thought it would happen, but we're here. We made it to town after 160 miles of which most of it was a very bad debt rose. Yeah. It was really tough, really slow going, but bumblebee survived. We survived. I haven't actually checked the shock, but it feels like it's not broken yet, which is really good. We have no flat tire. We didn't fall over. All of my ribs are intact. Thumbs up. So now we're going to have a good rest and get some energy to continue our mountain adventure in Kyrgyzstan. Yes, and that's it for us today. We hope you enjoyed the video. If so, please give us a thumbs up, subscribe to the channel, share the video with your friends and family. Comment below and we will see you next time.