 Goodbye most beautiful room, check out it's at 12 o'clock and it's 20 to 12 so we've really maxed out our time here. Unfortunately it's time to go and of course just like always they put us at the very top of the hotel as far away from Bumblebee as they possibly could. Bumblebee is alive, is Bumblebee happy? I can't believe it, there's still some oil dripping. There's still oil dripping from the suspension? Yeah. Oh yeah, look at that. Our suspension is going to be even softer today than before. Jesus. Come on Bumblebee, make it 12 matty please. Okay, okay, great. Easy starting to gain it easy. Ready to start the day. Alacol. Alacol, alacol, yes. I forgot my name, I forgot my name. I love you. I love you. I love you. I love you. I love you. I love you. I love you. I love you. I love you. Nice to meet you. One, two, three, go. Yes. Look at this place here. Oh wow, this is like the main square of the town. Good morning world. Welcome back to our circumnavigation around the globe and motorcycle. We're here in the town of Ayagos in Kazakhstan and we stayed last night in Hotel Khan in town and it's absolutely crazy because we were just eating dinner at a restaurant last night in town. Yes. Now we're talking. Oh. We thought we would treat ourselves after a crazy horrible day on the road yesterday and then we started chatting to this couple from Almaty and the guy Galimjan at the end when he was going to leave. He just said to us, guys, I'm going to pay for your hotel tonight in town. If you go to Hotel Khan, just give them your name and you guys are going to have a free night at the hotel. We were just blown away. I mean, that generosity, that is absolutely unbelievable. It's just incredibly nice because I don't know if you have noticed normally we always go for the cheapest, cheapest room in town. It's not very often that we get a hotel room with two different rooms to be in, a bedroom and like a whole living room. It was like a whole apartment for us. Yeah, it was so nice. It was so nice. So today we are praying for a better day than yesterday because yesterday was one of the hardest rides we've ever done. Okay, I've got to slow down again. I almost just want to jump off and walk. Oh my God. Please, Spumble, be survived. Not only was the road absolutely terrible, but our rear shock, all the oil has gone out, all the gas has gone out and we're just bouncing around on our spring and then add that to a fractured rib that I got in Mongolia. We fell over and basically you have the ingredients for a very horrible day. Google estimated it would take us five hours yesterday to reach this town and in the end we were on the bike over nine hours. I think our average speed for the day was something like 15 to 20 miles an hour. So we're hoping for a better road today, so let me show you guys the route for today. So we now have our shiny new map of Kazakhstan and it is massive and we are here. And today we're going to be taking this road south towards Lake Alakol and then continuing on this road towards the city of Almaty. Once we arrived in Kazakhstan, every person we spoke to is like, you have to visit Lake Alakol. So that is where we're going to try and get to today, but it's really going to be dependent on the road conditions. Google is estimating five hours to get there, but it is a little bit of a detour on our way to Almaty and if the road is really bad, we might just give up that detour and just continue on to Almaty. Yes, because in Almaty the plan is to fix up Bumblebee completely to get a new shock, to get a new service done, that we will be able to do detours like this in the future, you know, because of course this is what's travelling all about to visit amazing places, but at the moment I'm just go, go, go, let's go to Almaty, let's get it done, then we can then enjoy it because I really don't want Bumblebee to break down between here and Almaty. Now Almaty is the biggest city in Kazakhstan, so that's where we're going to be trying to get kind of everything done. We're still in the process of organising a shock with Motorcycle World back in my hometown Northampton, the dealership which actually gave us our beautiful Bumblebee in the first place. While these guys are sending a new shock out to us, thank you so much guys, we just got to get there basically, we've just got to get there in one piece. Exactly, it's already here, 12.15 so better hit the road, let's go, oh my god the road already gets quite pump here. Oh yeah, great start to the day, first of all we've basically lost the tarmac, second of all we have a lot of trucks on this road, yeah, come on road. You know what, at least I had a really really nice rest in this amazing air conditioned room, so I feel that we can tackle another bad road today. I feel like that now, but let's see in five hours hey. I think I remember that one of the guys yesterday said the first 150km are bad and then I guess better. Go through this and you will reach the promised land. Please get better, oh look tarmac, hey, so that was the end of that nice road, yep, this is going to be some kind of day, oh my lord, oh my lord, oh that didn't last very long did it? I just can't believe that this is the main road here, look at it, really worst road condition I think we have seen so far. I mean look what people have to deal with, trucks, cars, motorbikes, look at it, our suspension is just bouncing around, like madness, absolutely madness here, yeah we didn't make really good progress in our first hour, we did 25 miles in our first hour, it's not too great hey, it's not too great, I just feel sorry for all the people who have to take this road here all the time you know, like I said it is the main road, it is the only road connecting Almaty with Semi, well I'm just praying that a little bit further down the line the road is finished, oh man, all the rest of the way to Almaty, please, please, yes, oh my god, another good section, let's do it, no, oh my god it's going to be like this the whole day, oh no here's a flat, yeah poor guy, the second track we see with a flat tire, yeah I bet the Kazakhstan people are just waiting for this new road to be finished all the way, I tell you, I'm waiting for this new road, wow this petrol station is so busy because it's like the only petrol station and it's filled with cars, we pushed ourselves to get here to this point to have a break because we knew we'd be able to get some snacks, get a nice drink, but it's taken us two hours and 15 minutes to do 60 miles, so it's so slow going, I'm so amazed by this road really, I'm just amazed, amazed by this croissant, it's a chocolate croissant, I'm hungry too, so I will eat now, oh it's not a real guy, another real guy, another real fish, that's funny, okay I don't want to jinx it now but the road has been absolutely perfect for a little while now and we are going 15 miles an hour, that's like the record for the day, I mean at this point I can hardly feel that our suspension is broken, I mean look at this road, it's pristine this road, it must have been built like literally this year or last year, we have made more in the last 10 minutes than we've made in the whole hour before we got to the petrol station, I tell you, yeah pretty awesome, I'm really happy for you, yeah flying along, I just hope it keeps like this for a little bit, I'm praying, fingers crossed, one minute 37 seconds later, oh no the dream is over, the dream is over a little bit too fast, well it's always like that on the good sections, you go faster so that's over quicker, yes, the slow bit seemed to go on forever, because you're going slower, yeah exactly, I think that was our longest good stretch so far for the day, I think we did about 20 miles in about 20 minutes, it was absolutely flying along baby, yeah it was great, yeah I thought we were finished for the day, I was like nah it's gonna be good all the way from here, yeah me too, I was like good, I'll tell you I'm Matty, here we come, yeah it's really surprisingly empty here in Kazakhstan, people told us that there's nothing going on in the north of Kazakhstan and you know what, there's even less than nothing going on in the north, apart from an incredibly bad road to focus on, there is really nothing here, yeah absolutely nothing but the odd horse, and they're cute, yeah they're nice, yes another good section of road and whilst we're on a good section of road, I'm going to tell you guys a little bit more about country number 26 on our journey around the world, Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan is massive, it is the largest landlocked country in the world and it's actually the ninth largest country in the world by area, and it's funny because there's only 19 million people here and that makes it less than six people per square kilometer, so it's one of the least densely populated countries in the world, the territory which is now Kazakhstan has been inhabited and occupied by many many different nomadic peoples over the years, including as part of the Turkic Empire and most famously part of the Mongol Empire, but after the breakdown of the Golden Horde in the 15th century, this became the Kazakh Carnate, then later it became part of the Russian Empire in the 18th century and then part of the Soviet Union up until 1991, so modern Kazakhstan dominates Central Asia economically and politically, it actually provides 60 percent of the GDP of all Central Asia, but most of that is from oil and gas, and it's really interesting with the name Kazakhstan because the word Kazakh actually comes from the ancient Turkic meaning to wander and it's actually the same root where the Russian Cossacks come from, so Cossacks, Kazakhs, they both mean wander, so Kazakhstan literally means the land of the wanderers. Another really interesting thing is that when I was reading about Kazakhstan it was saying that the Kazakhstan bandit team is apparently one of the best in the world and I was like oh that's cool and then I was like what is bandy? Apparently bandy is basically like a different version of ice hockey that's played by like Russia and yeah Kazakhstan are one of the best bandit teams in the world. I also read that Kazakhstan is really good at boxing as well, so in the last Olympic Games Kazakhstan got the most amount of medals for boxing apart from Russia and Cuba, so pretty good boxes as well. Yeah don't mess around with the Kazakh, okay? I can't believe that the road remained good enough for me to tell you guys about Kazakhstan, I'm really happy. Thumbs up! Actually I've got a feeling that it might be good all the way to Almaty. Look how many crickets there are here on the side of the road, I don't know if I can see it on camera. Okay so we've reached the junction now where the lake Alakol is this way and our final destination Almaty is this way and we just routed it and it's actually 42 miles in the wrong direction to go to this lake but look at this guys let me just point out something to you look at that that's a rock hey that is a rock it's a big one over there as well it looks like this road is under construction but not far enough under construction 42 miles that way and then 42 miles back is just a detour that we can't take at the moment so we've decided we're going to have to skip Lake Alakol if we head one hour towards Almaty today we might even be able to get there tomorrow which is a really inviting prospect because there we've got a long break waiting we've got bumblebees fixed waiting and yeah we just need to get there I mean it would have been nice to see the lake but in my mind I was like if it's just 10 miles okay maybe I can push through it but knowing it's 40 miles if the road is really bad we could be on this road for another two hours we had a hard enough time already over the last two days hey yeah I think I would cry I think I would cry no I've been suffering so much for the last two days yeah it's like there's a limit so anyway we are now going to be heading in this direction the direction of Almaty we're going to ride an hour more and then we'll look for a place to stay and then yeah maybe we get there tomorrow yes let's do it I think we made the right decision to continue look at this road it is absolutely pristine oh and it just feels amazing to be flying along it's just amazing and we've hit some mountains oh Jesus Christ that was close hey guys editing Ollie here whilst we're cruising our way towards Almaty on this unbelievably smooth road I wanted to tell you guys about this video's sponsor On Vacation Doctor and their super handy app for people traveling the world like us the On Vacation Doctor app connects you to top English speaking doctors in any country in the entire world including Kazakhstan just put in your location and this app provides you with the name location and phone number of the closest English speaking doctor to you it also provides local ambulance fire and police numbers as well as the local US embassy address and phone number this app is totally free for the first six months so why not give it a try on your next travel you never know when like we did a few days ago you might need a local doctor who you can actually communicate with download the app for free today by clicking the link in the description below now back to the video all right it is seven o'clock so it's time for us to try and find a place to stay for the night so we've just turned off for the main road because there's a little town village down this road a couple of miles down here yeah I have really bad signal here in Kazakhstan it's really hard to search on google maps if there are any hotels this place now was on maps me actually so it might exist it might not exactly we will find out we'll find out in a minute welcome to Koilik welcome to Koilik and there's a huge herd of cows coming down the road a bit of a cattle drive going on I'm just going to see if I can get around these guys I'm not sure we'll be like a little bit of a slalom right here yeah do you think I should just kind of go between them oh where this car just came from I should go there don't hit them no no I'm going to try nice look at that hey it's awesome they seem pretty chilled cow slalom nice okay so this place hey yeah I mean it looks like they might have some rooms okay let's check it out yeah I don't know it looks like something it's a little bit closed door here possibly yep okay let's check it out okay so the place is a hotel and it does have rooms and this is Jeanette Jeanette I'll take cafe oh thank you thank you our life saver yes yes I'm really glad they had a room all right we're gonna unpack the bike stinky boots after this trip we have to burn them for sure but anyway we made it happy to yeah and look at this nice little room we have here both got a nice little bed for ourselves I'm so impressed because although it's really basic it's super super clean and I feel really comfortable here actually plus it only cost like five thousand tenge which is like ten pounds less than ten pounds less than ten pounds wow so we are now only five hours ride away from Almaty so there's a really good chance that if the road condition stays like this that we're gonna get there tomorrow which I'm super excited about me too and that's it from 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 if you really really really like our videos you can join us on patreon the link is in the description below we will see you next time