 Perfect! Rahmat! Goodbye! On the road again, just another day in Kyrgyzstan! Good morning world! Welcome back to our circumnavigation around the globe by motorcycle. We're here in the small city of Jalanabad in Kyrgyzstan. For those of you who have been following the last couple of episodes, you'll know that we were here in Jalanabad a few days ago. Then we went down to a city called Osh. The plan from there was to actually go into Uzbekistan and go through to the capital, Tashkent, before crossing back into Kazakhstan at the city of Shankent. But little did we know that drones are actually illegal in Uzbekistan. Yes, and you can even get a prison sentence of three years. But the border guards were really nice. At first they said to us, no drone! I said no drone! Which is what I always say. And then of course we didn't even hide the drones, they were just there so they found them immediately. They said to us basically we can either destroy them or go back into Kyrgyzstan and we decided that we didn't want to lose a thousand dollars of equipment. So we turned around and came back into Kyrgyzstan. Then after looking at the map we realized that actually if we just go up through Kyrgyzstan and enter Kazakhstan from the northwest border, we're actually only a few hours from Shankent anyway, which is where we were headed. So this is our new plan, spending a few more days here in Kyrgyzstan. Let me show you guys our route for today. So we are now back here and today we're going to be taking this road around to reach Toktogul. It's really cool because it gives us an opportunity to have a little bit more of an exploration into Kyrgyzstan and I've really really really liked this country so far. So I'm excited to explore a bit more. Today we're heading to what I think is a reservoir called Toktogul. Hopefully we'll be finding a nice camp there because we had some really nice camps on two big lakes here in Kyrgyzstan, Issykul and Songkul. And both times, oh pothole. Sorry this road. So both times we camped on lakes here in Kyrgyzstan, it was absolutely beautiful. So I'm excited for another round of that. So it's 180 miles to reach the lake and Google Maps says it will take us four hours and 30 minutes. It's already eight o'clock so oh no my camera, my camera wasn't fixed. There's always a lot of tasks to do in the morning and one of those tasks is to screw on the cameras and tighten them up with screwdriver and clearly one of them was forgotten about. Let's see. Okay that looks, that looks pretty good. Okay some people don't know that you can actually use a screwdriver to tighten up the GoPro screws. That's going to give you a lot better tightening than if you did it by hand. Anyway at least it didn't fall off, that's the important thing. So but anyway it's 180 miles to the lake and Google Maps says it will take us four hours and 30 minutes. It's already eight o'clock so better hit the road let's go. So right now we are riding right up against the border of Uzbekistan. It's literally just here. In fact Mahi Garmin thinks we're in Uzbekistan actually. Just in our clocks that changed as well in our earlier it's 8.17 again. It's really crazy when you think about you can just walk now that way and you're actually in Uzbekistan. I can't even see a river which is dividing the border you know you could actually just walk to the left here and you're in Uzbekistan. Yeah I wonder if they have some sort of fence or something. Yeah I wonder as well. Might be a good way to get our drones in eh. Yeah smuggle the drones in. Yeah let's face a three year prison sentence. Wow here we go we are right up against the border now there is a razor wire fence literally along the roads so that's about as close to the border as you can get right there. I hope there's no land mines. Okay that's basically it this is what divides Uzbekistan and Kogestan. We've got a little trench here it's not really much of a trench to be honest and then afterwards you've got razor wire fence seems to be a road that's probably the no man's land and then on the other side there's another razor wire fence and then a third fence just before a crop field over there. So there you go the border of Kogestan and Uzbekistan out here in the middle of nowhere let's get our drones into Uzbekistan hey. So we're just stopping here for a break in a petrol station and it's been pretty good going so far we've travelled 62 miles in the first two hours and we've got about 120 to go. It's just nice Tamagrod. Yeah it makes a big difference to what we had over the last few days up in the mountains. Climbing up up up. Climbing climbing yeah wow. The stupid mudguard screw is gone. No look at this. Oh my god. Yeah it's a bit dodgy that was. That was man. If it's paved all the way to the lake it's gonna be easy. Yeah I hope it will be paved because like we said before we have some issues now with our chain. So we have here one missing roller and the last time when we had to change the chain it was the same that at first one roller was missing after a few hundred kilometers we always lost one more roller that we ended up with missing seven rollers at the end. The guy actually said to us as long as you take now Tamagrods it should last yeah but don't have the idea of like taking some crazy off roads because then we will break the chain even more so we were just hopefully arrive in Chimkent with the chain like this and then we kind of get a replacement. Beautiful multi-column mountains around here look over there. Wow the rainbow mountains look to the right here. Oh wow yeah look at that that's a crazy landscape. Wow that looks epic. It turns from like red to like grey rock. Beautiful water as well. Our planet is a beautiful place hey. Oh yeah amazing rock formations. Amazing oh look at this tunnel cool. Oh my goodness I can't see anything. Same. Wow that went really dark really fast. Wow. Oh yeah we're coming back into the mountains now. Beautiful. I'm so glad that we didn't go into Uzbekistan and that we actually went up this way now because wow I mean look at this river color it's so bright. This valley way that we're on right now is just it's just insane look at the landscape yeah these crazy rocky canyons and the color of the water it's just so vibrant. It's incredible this way is so incredible wow yeah Kyrgyzstan has a lot of nice places to offer for sure. Yeah we'll have ridden quite a lot of their roads by the time we exit. Yes we've done like a whole loop through the whole country yeah it's unexpectedly crazy spectacular. Yeah wow look at this gorge. Wow the color of the water is just amazing. Into the canting seed. We're living life to the max. Riding around the world doesn't have to be a chore you know. You're so black on your nose from your leather gloves I think so you're when itching your nose and your forehead. No we have a really really nice lunch today because yesterday I made us a pasta and this is still the leftover pasta here but that's not all because the lady this morning she prepared us the best breakfast in the world. We had some pancakes, fried egg, some bread, some veg a lot of nice things but we couldn't eat all of it so we still have two fried eggs This is traveling in comfort so we are two-thirds of the way now 120 miles down and 60 to go. There it is top to cool reservoir look at the amazing color of this lake oh my god look at that. Wow I feel like somewhere in Argentina there's like such a grand view as well it's just insane. That is amazing yeah I'm so happy that we took this way now. Yeah a surprisingly amazing end to Kyrgyzstan hey. Yeah that's the thing you know if you take one route you never know how would have been on the other side you know. Yeah then you just have to take all the routes. Yes. So although we've already arrived at the lake we've still got another I think 40 miles to go because actually we're going to be trying to camp on the other side of the lake. You can just about see in the distance over there this green area this is the town of top to cool that's where we're going to be trying to find a camp why is it so crazy like fluorescent blue yeah it's absolutely crazy yeah I don't know why it's that blue. I think it's because it's a reservoir not a lake and I think this is probably like snow melt and glacial melt water which has a lot of minerals in it. We've just arrived in the town of top to cool this road is going to take us down to the lake but I can see on the map that the road kind of disappears at one point. We found this spot on our overlander and it's said that there's a lovely camping but it might be a little bit sandy we have to see if we can get there yeah but so far tarmac road really nice. And then the tarmac road disappears. Oh that's it. Okay so yeah it's still a couple of miles down to the lake so yeah let's see how this road goes. Yeah hopefully we can get down there because it'd be lovely to camp by that reservoir. Yeah well there it is it looks lovely but we don't want to push bumble be too crazy because we got our chain repair organized in Kazakhstan so we have to make it to Kazakhstan now. Yeah. Don't have the idea of like taking some crazy off roads we will break the chain even more. Is this a crazy road? This is not a crazy road this all right. Not really hey. This is all right. I read one comment and it said four wheel drive recommended. It is to do with sand then no chance. Game over. Game over. We'll find out in a minute not down there I think. Oh my lord. No actually I think still up here okay no we do have to go down here at least. Okay. Oh my god. It's a little bit less of a road now. Oh my god. It's okay. Okay there is a little bit of sand here hold on a minute and try and get away from it. Oh this is gravelly look at this. No it's still okay. Okay. Just got to be nice and easy in case we hit some more sand patches. Always hard. Find the nice wild camp spot say. If you want the spot you've got to do the road. I don't want it. I want an easy spot. I just hope there won't rain tonight. Ha yeah otherwise we're staying there for two nights. Oh my god. Wait a minute before I go down that bit. I think I will walk it actually because it looks really. It says it's just straight for a tiny bit longer so I reckon yeah probably down now. So which way am I going to go? I think I'll just go like straight down the middle. Is that deep sand I think? Here? No. I'll see you at the bottom. Anyway we're really close now so I think it's fine. Yeah this bit's sandy. Okay okay. Awesome. Whoa. Nice look at this. Tochterkul Reservoir. Nice. Yeah this is going to be a nice camping spot. Okay everything's kind of packed up but anyway it's time to go in the water. The water is so refreshing. Oh my god it's like the best thing to do after a hot day. Oh it's beautiful. So a really nice end to what was actually a really nice ride today. I can't believe that we managed to get here next to the lake. It's just spectacular. It's a spectacular place to camp. Yeah it was worth a little bit off-road. Hope we just did. Definitely. 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.