 cup of tea this morning. Don't mind if I do. Thank you. Thank you so much. Good morning world. Welcome back to our circumnavigation around the globe by motorcycle. Bumblebees over there, just chilling. And we're here in the town of Kazerman in Kyrgyzstan. We had yesterday actually a rest day because after this really, really long, long exhausting dirt road. Climbing up, up, up. Climbing, climbing, yeah, wow. Oh wow, these old bees. Oh my God. The stupid mudguard screw is gone again. We didn't feel like continuing the next day. We had the luxury of just take a day off but today it will be a crazy day. It's time to head back into the mountains. So let me show you guys where we're heading today. So we are here and today we're gonna be taking this little road over the Kaldama pass to reach the city of Jalalabad. So our adventure in Kyrgyzstan is about to get even more crazy than the last couple of rides because today we're heading to the highest pass that we're gonna take on so far and yes, it's all a dirt road. This pass is actually open for only three months of the year because it's so high but luckily we're here at just the right time that we can take it on. But on the map it looks absolutely crazy, full of switchbacks. I think the views are gonna be really good but I reckon as Evan would say it's gonna be pretty technical. So to just gain a little bit more power and energy we will have now our nice provided breakfast. Ah, free breakfast, yes. Yeah, we got some eggs, got a little bit of veg, got some cheese, got some bread. There's some apples and some little chocolate sweets and it's amazing. The aim for today is to try to reach a town called Jalalabad and it's about 100 miles away. So actually not that far. I hope we're gonna be all right. It's gonna all depend on the road condition. So yeah, exactly. He's crossed. So we will have our breakfast now, enjoy a little bit and then we're ready to hit the road. What was this? Not good enough. What? Yeah. Bye-bye. Bye, talk to you all. One, two, three. Yep. Okay. Yeah. Ha, ha, ha, ha. You. Sounds like a kitty cat. Bye-bye, thank you. Thank you. Bye-bye. Awesome. That's it. Leaving the safety of the guest house and heading into the dirt roads in the mountains. I mean, yesterday we were sort of like, oh, so good that we didn't leave today because it was raining the whole day. It would dry out overnight but then it was raining the whole night as well. Yeah, there's actually been quite a lot of rain. I don't know how that's gonna affect this road but yeah, we'll have to see. We kind of had nightmares already. I think the forecast today is supposed to be really good, like really nice, beautiful sunshine. So I think as long as we get sunshine for a couple of hours, it'll dry everything out. Oh, let me see if I can get some fuel here. Yes, so good. Yeah, okay. And it's not in plastic bottles this time, which is nice. Yes. Oh, I think we'll go here. Okay. Because this is 92. So we're leaving this beautiful place here, Kazaman, with epic mountain views around. We read online that Kyrgyzstan is investing a massive amount of money into building a whole new road system here. And as you can see where we are now, this is actually a completed section and it's absolutely perfect here. But this project started in I think 2013 and it was called like the new North-South Highway and the initial investment for the project was two and a half billion dollars of which 200 million came from like a grant and then the country's own funds only managed to cover another 200 million. So they had to borrow from Chinese banks two billion dollars to make this construction. And the road was supposed to take five years, but now it's like 10 years later and it's still not finished. This road is actually supposed to be eventually going to Jalalabad, but at the moment they are currently constructing a tunnel to go under the mountain pass that we're taking, but that tunnel is still not finished. And that's why we still have to take the dirt road mountain pass, which will eventually be the old road, but for us it's the road. Yeah, the only road pretty much. The only road out from here heading south. So at the moment it's a beautiful, beautiful road, but that's all gonna change in a few miles. Okay. There we go. Look at that. Oh my God. The beautiful junction and then it's finished. That's it. That's it. That was the nice road for the day. Oh no. Yeah. Okay. So now we have, oh my GPS is actually frozen, so I don't know, but something like 90 miles now on this road and then we'll be in Jalalabad. Yeah, I'm just hoping that the clouds will disappear and that the sun will shine pretty soon because otherwise we're gonna freeze. Yeah, I mean, you can see up ahead it does look really dark up on the hills. And that's basically where we're heading, but I mean, the forecast was supposed to be good, so I really hope that it's gonna clear. Anyway, let's bump along for the whole day, hey? Yeah, let's hope that Bumblebee can take one more day of bumpy roads and nothing else falls off. All about balance, isn't it? Sometimes you're flying on the highway and sometimes you're fearing for your life. Well, I'm fearing for my life on a highway as well. It's been a stressful two years for you, hey? Yes. Stressful, but really beautiful as well. Horsies. Good morning, guys. Oh no. Oh no, we're hurting them. Oh, sorry. Wow, they are beautiful horses. Look at them. Look at their coat. Wow. Yeah, amazing horses. Got corrugation. Yeah. Oh, come on, Bumblebee. You can do it. Oh, rock. Oh. Sorry. Sorry, Bumblebee, for everything we put you through. Ha, ha, ha. Suzuki, Suzuki, Suzuki. Another group of horses here. Beautiful. Beautiful. Wow. Have a nice day. They live in the life, man. Yeah. They are living the life. I mean, that's about as wild as you can get farming, isn't it? Yeah, Andre told us that they really like to eat horses here in Kazakhstan as well. Oh, look at all these birds. Oh, nice. That's a lot. Look on the road. Yeah, I'm trying to look on the road as well. Yeah, it's always when there's something nice, suddenly you have like a batch of gravel in front of you, you know? Yep, always. Always. As soon as I look to the side, suddenly, I'm going off the side of the road into the gravel and we're about to fall off a cliff. Yeah. It's just how it is, isn't it? Anyway, no rain so far. Little drizzles here and there, but nothing crazy. Yeah. There's a patch of blue sky over there and that's our direction. So fingers crossed. Fingers crossed, the luck continues. Yeah. There's a horse paradise here. Yeah, they love it, hey? Wow. Oh, I think they like each other. Yeah. Oh. Beautiful. Bee hives over there. Uh-oh. I'm just going to put my head down a little bit. Hello, guys. Guys, if you think that we are crazy going up here on a motorbike, go to the sky. That's tough, hey? Yeah. Hello. Hello. How are you? Big respect. Big respect. Where are you from? From Germany. Oh, cool. The kids. I'm from Germany. He's from England. Oh, hey, nice. Yes. Crazy bike. This is a crazy bike. Yeah, I mean, this one doesn't even have an engine. Good morning. How are you? Did you leave Kazerman today? No, Kazerman we left yesterday. So did you just camp? Yes, yes. Nice. Oh, my god. So you carry everything you need, equipment, everything to survive? Yeah. Do you want some cookies or something? I think we're good. And you have, like, lots of noodle packs? Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Yeah. The noodles in the bottle, you're going to try to go over the main pass today. OK. 11 kilometers, and then you start going down. And that's it. Easy. We'll be done in 20 minutes. Just moving the bike. Hold on. Oh. Yeah, group photo. Yes. Kyrgyzstan. Thank you. Thank you very much. Bye-bye. The people here are so amazing, hey? I think they're so friendly. Very good. How was the road? It was good? Wow, there's a lot of people coming. Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello, how are you? From England and Germany. Germany? Yes, Germany. Can you speak German? Yeah. Very good. What do you make here? We go to Jalabad. Jalabad? Mm-hmm. From? From Kazerman. From Kazerman, yeah. And it is your hobby? Yes. Yes, it's our hobby. This is yours. Are you afraid here? The road is good. It's OK. I am here first time. I'm afraid here. You're afraid? Yeah. Interesting. What do you make here? My husband's brother. Much, much lens have here. Oh, cool. Nice. We saw many, many horses. Many horses. Just down here, many, many horses. Beautiful. Yeah, beautiful. I love it. Where do we eat? Where do we live? We have a tent. We have a tent. We have food. Yeah. We have everything. And we stay at guest houses in Kazerman. Very nice, very nice guest house. Yes. People here are very nice. I live here, but I am here first time. Yeah. In mountains. In mountains. I think you're afraid here. Not beautiful. I wish you best of luck. Thank you. This way I wish you. Be careful. Yeah, always. We will be careful. We try. Thank you. Thank you. Bye-bye. Send us a message, all right? Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. We see you. Bye-bye. Oh, the rain started. Nice. Oh, wow. Look at this. Hold on a minute. I'm going to have to go through because I'm not going to the edge. Okay. Oh, wow. Okay. Again, I just have to go through. Yep. Whoa. Wow. That was deeper than I imagined. Jesus. We've definitely had a lot of rain here. Wow. Oh my God. That was a little bit of a mountain gathering. Yeah. Nice. That was really nice to meet all of these guys back to the road. Yeah. I hope that the other side of the mountain is a bit drier. Yeah. Oh, no. Look at this. Oh my God. Okay. Okay. No, this is a little bit. Oh. Yeah. That's a bit dodgy. That was. Oh, wow. Yeah. Okay. That was pretty. That was dodgy. Definitely. Yeah. I was definitely hitting the back tire. Very hard. Very good. Very good. Very good. Very good. Very good. Very good. That was. Man. Okay. Okay. Wow. Okay. That bit there was just a little bit messed up. A challenge. Yeah. I mean, that was probably one of the most challenging little sections of road we've ever done. I mean, that was crazy. I was just like, right, I just got to keep the throttle on. Yeah. We would definitely, definitely have fallen there if you would have stopped. There's no way we could have stopped. No. Oh, I really hope we don't have anything or more like that. If I see more stuff like that, I think we have to stop and analyze it. Okay. A bit more. Okay. Rather than just go for it because I don't want to fall off the cliff. Yeah. Yeah. That was definitely a challenge. Wow. That went like from a regular road to a really crazy, crazy mud puddles. Yeah. Okay. No worries. Still upright. Yeah. So our cable tie repair on the chain guard is broken. And so now we've got to put new cable ties on it. Okay. Let's go a little bit further and we'll find a place to stop in the next like 10 minutes. Okay. And we'll have a little, a little rest, compose ourselves a bit. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. He's just going. This day went from like quite chilled. And I was actually really enjoying it to like, this is pretty intense now. We're getting higher and higher. Yeah. And the road seems to be getting worse and worse. So yeah. We would just stay on the inside now. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, in the worst case, if we, if we do drop the bike on the inside, it's okay. You know, the main thing is we don't drop it off the cliff. Exactly. Getting some views though. Look at that. Yeah. Wow. I'm really high up now. Really high up. Yeah. I can't believe that this guy's doing it on a bicycle. I can't believe them. Really. These guys are tough. Front cameras decided to. Turn off. Give up on us. Yep. Okay. Front cameras like now, mate. I'm out. A big switch back. Let's take it wide. Very good, my love. Very good. Thank you. Yes. We're not falling off today. I reckon, should we stop for a break somewhere here? Yeah. It's quite a big, nice open space, isn't it? Okay. Yeah. Let's stop here. Do you think this dog is actually going to attack us? I don't know. I reckon he's just bluffing. I think he's bluffing. Okay. Little break. Compose ourselves a little bit because that was a, that's a hairy section. I'm going to have a look at the view anyway. Whoo. Yeah. We've come up some way already. Hey, look at that. Look at this switch back. I don't think we're at the top yet, but I think the top is that's up there. Wow. A few more switchbacks to come for sure. Not 100% finished. Yeah. Okay. It's starting to rain now. So it's time to take off the medium mod and get our rain clothes on and continue with this climb. Ah, it started hailing. Luckily we are wearing our helmet. Not good at the moment. Not good. It's terrible weather to be up here. Oh man. So we're just going to wait here and see if the weather gets any better before taking on the highest part of the pass. Landslide was here. Look at this. Okay. Got a few puddles. Okay. Yep. Okay. That's all right. Yep. Blue skies coming on the other side. Truly no visibility anymore. It's like, look at this. This is crazy. I can hardly tell where the edge of the cliff is and where the road is. Ridiculous. We must be at the top now. Oh yes. I think we are at the top of the pass. Look at this. Yeah. We made it. We didn't die. Sunshine on the other side. Yeah. The weather is much better on the other side. There's pretty much sunshine over there. Look at that. This is where we're heading, hey? That's where we're headed. Yeah. Yeah. We're going all the way along and heading out that way. This is it. This is our highest point and the weather is looking a lot better on the other side. Yeah. And look. The sheep's coming to say hello. Yeah. Wow. That's so nice. Hi guys. I'm so glad that we got past that bit. Man. Yeah. We made it. We made it to the top. Beautiful. All right. That's it. On our way down now over the pass. From now on, it's easy just rolling down. But anyway, man, I'm so glad because like I said, I had nightmares. You know, I thought it would be really tricky and it was really tricky, but we survived. Yeah. And I can enjoy a really open, nice view. Beautiful. Absolutely beautiful. Maybe actually the thing is again, loose. Is it? Maybe. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it is. So we have basically just sort of hung up the mudguard away from the chain with some high tensile fishing line given to us by Doug in San Diego. Thanks, Doug. And I think that's going to hold it. Keep the chain guard in good condition. And then when we get to the next town, we can get a screw for it. All right. 55 miles to go. Yeah. Let's do it. And then we'll be in Jalalabad. Hey, what was that? Show me again. That was really nice. Whoa. Jalalabad. Jalalabad. Jalalabad. We are nearly at the bottom now. That's amazing. I'm so happy. Yes. We're not going to die today. That's always good, isn't it? Yeah, totally. Always good to survive, to ride another day. Yeah. But wow, I can't believe how remote some people are living here all around this mountain. You can see some little tents where people living in and their livestock around. Wow. I just can't believe it. These guys are living a wild lifestyle. That's for sure. For sure. Just horse on the menu every day. Yeah. There we go. Look at that. Oh, I feel so good, man. Really. No more cliffs. Yes. We are at the bottom. Oh my God. How nice. And we didn't drop the bike. This whole Kyrgyzstan adventure, on all these dirt roads, we have not dropped the bumblebee yet. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Got a guy herding some horses on an ATV. That's the way to do it. Wow, look at all these beautiful horses. Beautiful. I suppose it's just a little boy. Let's see if we can just get through here without killing a foal. I think so too. Look, they know where to go. Yeah. I can see some diggers and that might mean there's been a landslide. What do you think? Shall I just go? I don't know. It looks like it's been washed out. Do you think it's for me better to walk and you try to ride it because I think it will be really... Yeah, it's going to be muddy. Muddy. It's going to be really muddy. Yeah, yeah, maybe it's best. It's basically just from here to there. Yeah. And it looks like they're cutting it out at the moment. Yeah. I'm not even sure I can go yet. Wow, they're really carving it all out right now. I'll ask him if I can go. He said I can go. Okay. Yep. Okay. Oh Lord. Okay. Yep. Wow. Oh my God. Oh, yeah. I think that's it. Short but intense. Okay. I didn't fall over. So we met this crazy dude here from Lithuania. Hello. Oh, like really cool bikes here. No, these are f***ing bikes. Oh, f***ing bikes. Sorry. One guy has spoke, broke. So they're tired now with cable tie. There's a good fix in my eyes. I have no idea where this guy's up from. Oh, he's going. They rented these bikes to... Oh. Well. There we go. Coming on to the tarmac. Can you believe it, hey? Wow. That was like 68 miles. 68 miles of pretty difficult roads. Yeah. This is some of the toughest riding I've ever done. Seriously. Yes. That little kind of up and down with all the puddles and the mud. Yeah. That was like nearly off the edge of the cliff. I was like touch and go there. Touch and go. Oh my God. Now we got a child roadblock. Oh no. Hello. Hello. Hi. Hello. Hello. Oh, cool. Wow, sunflower seeds. Oh, cool. They're like literally hand picking the seeds out of the sunflowers and drying them on the road. Wow. Amazing. We've picked out one guest house which we saw on Ioverlander which was supposed to be cheap but really nice. And it's just down here. The place is apparently next to a place called Cock Art. I just thought I'd let you guys know that. So look around for some Cock Art and see what you can find. The thing about guest houses is they're really hard to find because they just look like houses. Maybe this one here. Oh yeah, yeah, maybe. Okay. Yeah. Let's check out that house. I am Bilba. Bilba. Bilba, Oli. Oli. Me, Lavi. Lavi. Yes. Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you. Amazing. They have a room. So we've just noticed that we've actually lost one of the rollers. This one. Here. And this is the same thing that happens back in Chile. And it started with one. Then it was two, three, four, five. So this doesn't look really good for the chain. We'll most likely need to replace the chain and the sprocket at some point pretty soon. We're going to monitor this one and see if we get more of them breaking or if it's just one on its own. Hi. Oh. Ni hao. Ni hao. Good evening, guys. We made it. Happy to live. Yes. Our four days of dirt road mountain adventures are over. And we have made it here to Jalalabad and the safety of Tarmac. Yeah. It was a really, really crazy ride. And I'm just so happy that Bumblebee didn't break anymore. I'm a little bit annoyed that we see the first signs of the chain starts to break. Yeah. That was a funny sentence. Yeah, you got it. But actually, I think we read that you might have to exchange your chain every 20,000 miles. And we just counted that we actually hit 20,000 miles since the last time we have changed it. So it's about time to be honest. Yeah. So we'll look to do that when we get over to Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, which is the next big city that we'll be coming to. The plan is to reach Tashkent in like three or four days. So not too bad. It's been four amazing rides. A little bit scary at times, but the views have been insane. The camping by the lakes has been really, really beautiful. So we will just rest now because tomorrow, if everything goes well, we actually cross into Uzbekistan. Yes. 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