 Good morning, Lake. Good morning, Bumblebee. Good morning, world. Welcome back to our circumnavigation around the globe by motorcycle. Good morning, Bumblebee. Good morning, Bumblebee. We're here at Togtukul Reservoir in Kyrgyzstan. And we had a beautiful night last night. Nobody was around except some overlanders from France over there. There was quite a lot of people around in the evening. People were down here swimming, having picnics. But then, yeah, as soon as the sun set, everybody left and it was peace and quiet and it was just amazing. And what a view to wake up to this morning. The sun hasn't made it over the mountain just yet because we've woken up early again. Yes! Because today we have a super exciting day because we're heading back into Kazakhstan. Let me show you guys our route for today. So we are here and today we're going to be taking this road, followed by this road, to hopefully make it back over the border into Kazakhstan and to the city of Taras. If we can make it across the border today, it means that we can get to Shymkent tomorrow because we've been what-sapping with a mechanic in Shymkent. And the guy's super awesome because he's already ordered the chain and sprockets. So he actually has everything ready to repair Bumblebee's chain and sprockets. It's about 170 miles to the border and the navigation says it will take us four hours. We have still to pick up everything, so better hit the road. Let's go. I think they're over after this trip. No. Yeah, they're getting to the end, hey? Oh, this side looks good. Not that bad, hey? Yeah, look. Just here, Greg. Come on, former, give us some boots. Come on! Just an obstacle in the morning. Yeah, that's where we came up, that one, but it's a little bit easier on this side. Bumblebee's got unlimited power, so we've got nothing to worry about. Unlimited power. No hill can stop Bumblebee. Oh my god. Okay. No worries. No worries. A beautiful morning, hey? Yeah, a nice little trail to start the morning. Look at this. Yeah. I always like going to these camps, down some nice tracks, because then we always get to start the morning like this. A nice little trail before we hit the tarmac. Yeah, especially when we reach there, we know on the way back that we can actually make it. Yeah. You know, because yesterday I wasn't really sure if we can actually make it. Yeah, it's definitely a four-wheel drive track, but yeah, it's doable for us. It's doable just about, hey? Yeah, it's like my little challenge of the morning. Yeah. Hold on. A little bit technical. Yeah, now we're back on Dunlop Trail Max mission tires. It's just like, I feel so confident with these tires. They're just amazing. They're just the best tires in the world. Oh, I don't actually know where I came from this time. I think we came from there, actually, didn't we? Do you think so? Not sure. Maybe we didn't, just because the way looked a little bit more comfortable, actually, than this part here. Yeah, I don't think we came this way. No, no, we didn't. But anyway, I think it's the same, anyway. Yeah. No idea. Getting lost every day at least one time, but most days, actually two times or three times. We're heading over that direction. That's the important thing. Yeah. Very good, my love, hey? All right, mission successful for the morning. Didn't drop it. Yeah, it's always nice when you don't drop the bike in the morning. Exactly. Kazakhstan, we're coming. Now into the amazing mountain landscapes. Look at this. Amazing. Wow, so pretty. Yeah, I think it's going to be a pretty crazy ride to the border. It's just amazing how quickly everything can change. It's like this beautiful lush forest around this river. It's so nice. Such a nice place to live. Yeah, there's like sort of little cabins with fireplaces. Yeah, maybe we should move to Kyrgyzstan. And it seems like the main business they're doing here, as you can see here, is bee farming. Look all these bee boxes. And then they're selling their honey on the side of the road. Pretty much that seems to be what everybody's doing here. Yeah, incredible. What a nice road. What a nice road. Always staying like nothing can surprise you anymore. And then you turn the corner and you have something like this, hey? So we didn't really realize, but we climbed up quite high now. Yeah, it looks like we're going over a mountain pass. How high are we? We are at 10,150 feet. Yeah, so it's quite high up. My fingers feel frozen. Yeah. My fingers are so cold. Oh my god, look at this car. Oh, this car's like really sticking out the back. Look at that. Yeah. Wow, the trucks, they have a little bit of trouble to go up here for sure. Oh, there's some chilly winds. Wow. Yep. Wow, look at this landscape up here. Turnoff is coming. Yeah, it's time to find out if it's going to be tarmac to the border or not. No, please, please, please, please, please, please. Okay, looks good. Looks good. Looks like tarmac. Is it tarmac? Wow, look at the statue of this guy on a horse. Wow. Amazing. Looks really, really cool, actually. Yeah, it looks like tarmac. Yes. Because from here it's about 110 miles to the border on this road. So we were like, if this was going to be a dirt road, then our day would be very different. Yes, for sure. These beautiful mountain yurts. Such peaceful living, hey. Totally. I really want to live in a yurt. Yeah, maybe that's an idea for the future. You're at camp in Scotland. There we go. So we just reached the top. Ottmock pass, 3,326 meters. Lavionolli sticker going on the pass. Nice. There you go. Forever happy and alive. Nice. So we're just going to take a break here. We've been on the bike now for two hours already this morning. We've covered 63 miles. So we're doing pretty good. We've got about 100 miles more to go to reach the border. Awesome. Okay. Had some cookies. Now it's time to get down to the warm pay. Quickly, quickly. It's freezing. Freezing. So we just stopped here in a town called Talaz. We're trying to find something to eat for lunch. This looks like a lot of grilled meat. Let's check it out anyway. It does smell good. Ah, perfect. Hello, how are you? Good? Oh, you guys speak English? Oh, cool. What's your name? Norik. Nice to meet you. And your name? Nogmat. Nogmat. They're our friends. Nice. Very nice. This is our menu. Thank you. We just take the lahmaner. The fried one. Yes, please. And tea. How much time we are in Kyrstan? Maybe two weeks. Two weeks? Yes. From Bishkek. Is it cool? Song cool? One motorcycle. Yeah, one motorcycle. Two people. Yeah. We go around the world. Around the world? Yeah. All continent, everywhere. Your hobby is hobby? Yeah. Tourist, yeah? Our life. Yeah. It's like now we're around the world. It's a YouTube channel? Yes. YouTube, Instagram. Cool. Amazing. This hot tea is us present. Okay, thank you. That's really kind. Very kind. Thank you. Yes. Thank you. Thank you so much. Rahman. How are you? How friendly, hey? I'm still cold. Have a hot tea. It'll warm you up. It's nice warm, tasty, sugary. Nice hot tea. We've ordered a nice fried lahman. A national noodle dish here in Kyrgyzstan. So I'm really looking forward to it. Like one? Thank you. Thank you. That's some good stuff. It's like the best meal ever. What a beautiful lunch, hey? Nice. Really nice. Really nice. So now we have another 50 miles to get to the border. It's half past 12, so we're doing pretty good today. Making good progress. This road is so patchy. So patchy. Wow. Look at that. At least they've done something, hey? I think this is it. The Kazakhstan border. 170 miles after and six hours. I think this is our longest ride we've had to get to a border, hey? Yeah, I think so too. Because normally we tackle them like first thing in the morning. Because it's always difficult to go to a border in the afternoon and you've ridden all day. Yeah. But to be fair it has been a really spectacular road today and it's been quite easy going. A little bit bumpy, but quite easy going. Right, well what's going on is that we've got to get as close as we can to those green gates at the end without angering anyone. Can I get through here? That's the question. Good question. Let's give it a go. Is that right? Yeah, it's all right, yeah. Okay. Yeah, just about, yep. The gate's still quite a few cars down, isn't it? Yeah. Well, I kind of got ourselves stuck now to be honest. It's true. No, hi. Anyway, look, there's nothing we can do because we've got a concrete barrier here and then it's all packed full of trucks here. So that's as far as we can get for now. Okay. All right, let's wait here then. Yep. Okay, everybody's moving. Okay, seems to be about as far as we can go. One, two, three, four, five, six. It's only like seven cars. We moved forward a little bit. Yes. One eternity later. Still waiting. Yeah, it's really crazy because there's like this fence in between, but you have still a lot of people actually going the wrong way down here like this guy. Wrong way, buddy. The bumblebee is stuck. Stuck in between a bunch of trucks and cars. Yeah, it's really crazy because the other side has a stone wall as well. So now we can't move at all. It's like, no, skip into the front this time. And so we wait. One hour later. Hello. Okay. Okay. Camera off. Off, off, off, off. Camera. No, no, no. No, no. Bike passport. Bike passport. Yeah. Plate. This one, the bin. Win, win. Camera off. Okay. Camera off. Yeah, off, off, off. Thank you. Bye, bye. Bye, bye. Okay, thank you. Bye, bye. This is a big lean. Thank you. Ahmed. Thank you. Thank you. Wait, water, water. To work in a chocolate factory, we have a chocolate brand. What brand is it? Cadbury. Yes. No, no, no. No, no. Please. So we've just crossed the border and we have already managed to sort our insurance and our SIM card for Kazakhstan. So this word here. Insurance. Insurance with these guys. These guys are absolutely awesome. Welcome to Kazakhstan. Thank you. Bye, bye. Bye, bye. Bye, bye. Oh no, no, everyone parked here. Oh. Yeah. Okay. Nice guys, hey? Totally. That's so cool. So, so nice. That was just basically the first building that we came to as soon as we crossed the border. We translated on the board at the front and it was like, yep, insurance. So all in all, that was a super easy start. We got our insurance for Bumblebee for one month here in Kazakhstan. And that cost us 15 pounds. 15 pounds? Yeah, really cheap. That's really cheap. And then the SIM card was about 8. Yeah, 8 pounds. I think that's 10 gigabytes for one month. Yeah, so pretty good. Pretty good, but we didn't talk about the border yet. The border process was pretty long waits in those queues, I tell you. I'm so happy that we are not a car. The process was just so, so slow. Yeah. They were just, I don't know what they were doing. They were just only letting a few cars in at a time and then you had to wait like 45 minutes before they opened the gates again. Yeah. I think we arrived at the border at about 2 o'clock now. Yeah. And now it's quarter past five. So that whole process including getting the insurance and the SIM card and getting all that set up took us about three hours. Just over three hours. Okay, here we are back in Kazakhstan. Nice. Nice to be back. Yeah. And this is going to be a long leg in Kazakhstan now because our destination here in Kazakhstan is Aktau. And Aktau is about 1,500 miles away to the west. And that is where we'll be putting Bumblebee on a ferry to cross the Caspian Sea to Azerbaijan. If everything works well. If everything works out, that's going to be the plan. Yes. But we've got a lot of road to cover here in Kazakhstan. But I'm excited. Me too. So we are riding now pretty much to the next town. The town is Taras. Just a few miles down the road here. We found an accommodation on our overlander. And we're going there now to check it out. And see if they have a room available for us. We're so excited to go and get pizza that we totally forgot to even record the evening vlog. So we just found the closest place. We've got a lentil soup. We've got a pizza to share. And this is super crazy. It tastes good. It's supposed to be kiwi fruit and passion fruit lemonade. But yeah, it's really green. Anyway, we drove all our stuff successful off in the room. And the room was really nice. But that's it for us today. We hope you enjoyed the video. If so, please give us a thumbs up. Share the video with your friends and family. Comment below. And we will see you next time.