 So we are still in Semi and we decided to go actually to the hospital because Olli is in pain and didn't get better even though we are already in the hotel for like five days. Good morning world. Welcome back to our circumnavigation around the globe by motorcycle. We're here in the city of Semi in Kazakhstan. We've been taking a rest here at this hotel. We've been here for the past six days. We could have stayed easily six more days or more like 60 days more here. It was really nice and comfortable and just to calm down a little bit was really necessary. We got some editing done. We got some organizing done. And we also decided to eventually go to the hospital about my rib. The first translation I had was that there were seven fractured ribs and I was like seven fractured ribs. And then they said, no, no, no, rib seven is fractured like the seventh one down. They said it's a really uncomplicated fracture and there's nothing really to do except to take pain medication, keep doing breathing exercises. They also said that it's not going to cost me anything. They said it's completely free of charge which I have no idea why, but it's amazing. And these are the awesome doctors here from the hospital. Thank you. So yes, I did fracture a rib in the end during one of our falls in Mongolia. We fell over. Oh no, oh no, oh no, oh no. So this day is just going from bad to worse. Oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Dammit. Luckily they said it's nothing really to worry about. Just take some paracetamol if I need to and try not to do too much. So let me show you guys where we're heading today. So we are here in the very, very north of Kazakhstan and our new mission is to head south, south, south to reach the country's largest city, Almaty, right down by the border of Kyrgyzstan. Our aim is to reach the city of Almaty in four days but I'm already a little bit scared because I think the road will be very difficult. We saw on Google Maps a lot of parts which are yellow. That means that it's slow going on these parts of the road, either construction or potholes or something going on. I have no idea. Normally it would be fine but our bum will be, our suspension is completely gone, completely gone. It looks like there's a valve here and there's oil coming out of this valve. In Almaty we're gonna be taking an extended break. One of the reasons is so that we can get Bumblebee fixed up. Almaty is the largest city in Kazakhstan so it just means that we're gonna have everything we need there. Plus, we're gonna be picking up our drones in Almaty, the drones that we sent from South Korea. Here we go, FedEx. So we found out that apparently the cheapest option to send our drone is to create our own box. Just cutting up a box here. Yes. Cool, finally. It was quite a challenge to get this done but it's done. To avoid bringing them into Russia so they didn't think that we were spies. So those ones are actually stuck at customs in Almaty so we've got to go there and hopefully collect them without paying too much money. Yes, so for now we have to remove our bodies from this comfortable bed here. We have still to pack up everything and it's already 8.50 so better hit the road, let's go. Two trailer park girls go around the outside. That's what I have to say this morning. Okay, let's try this out. Wow. Taking one painkiller this morning. Like an ibuprofen so that should do me fine. We haven't started Bumblebee in a few days so I'm going to put neutral. Oh, look at that. Instant firing up, eh? Easy stuff. Okay, this might be really, really tight actually. Yeah? Are you ready? Sort of. That's not the answer I'm looking for. Yeah. Kazakhstan. Oh, my rib. A few twinges to the rib but I think my chances of survival are good. Hopefully, hey? I need you for a little bit longer. My private taxi around the world, hey? But anyway, whilst I'm sitting on the bike like this then my rib is feeling all right like this. This is good. The message I got from my mother was just try not to fall off in the next few weeks. I was like, yeah, we'll try. Probably not a good idea to fall off with a fractured rib. So, apparently our intercom has lost communication because Laby can't hear me anymore but look at this crazy massive bridge we're about to go over, huge suspension bridge. Wow. This city is actually a pretty small city here in Kazakhstan. Only like 300, 350,000 people. Whereas the city we're going to today, some people waving, not today. The city we're going to over the next four days, Almaty, I think, two million people living there. This city, Seme, actually used to be called Semipalantinsk but they renamed it Seme. Probably it was a little bit easier to pronounce. And also they were worried about the connotation of Semipalantinsk with the nuclear test site. Apparently they tested over the last like 50 years, 450 nuclear bomb tests. Very, very near to this city, like only 110 miles away. So that gave this city a pretty bad reputation and also pretty high rates of cancer and birth deformities as well. But that's all over now. And so that's why it's not Semipalantinsk anymore. It's just Seme. Wow, here's really nothing around. It's just open plains here and the wind is blasting through. It's absolutely crazy. I don't know what I expected from today's ride but nothing like that. Yeah, and the road condition, without suspension the way it is, we are just bouncing around on the spring and that means that I can't really ride more than about 45, 50 miles an hour combined the bouncing with the wind and I think it's gonna make for a really super annoying ride today. Yeah, it's not the coolest ride for sure. And I'm super worried as well that when we're not careful enough that we hit a pothole or something or like the bounce is too hard and then we break the break, you know, I just don't want to break down here. Not when we are actually now so close to Almaty where we can get boundary fixed. I really don't want to break down. Only 30 miles into the journey and I'm already regretting leaving Seme. I just wanna go back to the hotel. Oh, another day of bed. Already hurting to just trying to keep my head straight. Yeah, I hope that we are somehow turning into that direction soon and the wind will be behind us. That will be my absolute dream for today. Oh my God, I did not expect it to be this much of a challenge today. We're gonna need some energy for the next four days, hey. For sure. Warrior mode! Woohoo! Oh, there's a dog on the road. Couple of dogs. And some go-go-go goats. Okay, just guys, please. Nice and easy. Nice and easy, everyone. Well, that was an exhausting first leg, wasn't it? And we didn't get anywhere. We're just taking a break here in a bus shelter to hide from the wind because, oh, it's so windy and it's so bumpy. We've been on the road for like two hours already today and we've done about 60, 65 miles. At the moment, the conditions are not allowing us to make good progress. It's the worst at the moment, the worst stage ever. If our suspension was working, it would be like flying along so easy. Yeah, so anyway, just poodling today, poodling and struggling. No idea what's going on over there on the left side, but it looks like there's a huge fire going on or, oh my God. There's like a huge wall of smoke over there, hey. What is that? No idea. It really looks like a huge fire. Yeah. But yeah, in other news, the road is absolutely terrible. Terrible. I'm like going 27 miles an hour now. I think we can't go faster. Otherwise, we shake uncontrollably and the back wheel hits underneath Lavi's seat. Not fun at all. One hour later. Yes, we're finally making it to our first town, Karaul. And this was supposed to be like our first break, but in the end, it's taken us like four hours to get here. We have only done 117 miles so far today. Yeah, it took actually a really long time to get here. But anyway, we made it and hopefully we can fill up some petrol here. I think here to the right, I can see the petrol station over there. Look at that statue. Wow. It's like Genghis. Looks like Genghis Khan. And look at this crazy cemetery here as well. Wow. That is amazing. Totally. Hey, do you think this petrol station is open? I'm not sure. We'll give it a go. Let's see if somebody comes out. There's no light to indicate the prices or anything. Let's see. Can you see anyone? Hello? Yeah, there's a window. Oh. Okay, open. It's okay? Yeah, okay. Ah, okay, cool. Wow, what a crazy little town in the middle of nowhere. I mean, this was really like in the middle of nowhere, 118 miles from Seme of almost nothing the entire ride. And then suddenly we're like in this street here. They're really funny, eh? Really funny. So apparently there's a supermarket coming up on the left very soon. Oh, look at this. It looks like a Guanaco. It does. Do you think they've got some sort of Kazakhstan Guanaco? I don't know. Oh, I think it's here. I think it's this shop there. Or this one here? Is this one a shop? No, that's not a shop. No. What's the shop? No. What's this one? No. Look, a giant camel. Ah, cool. Nice. Is this one a shop or not? I don't know. I'll park in front. Oh, hello. Yes, it is a shop. Let me see what they've got. They've got crisps, chocolate croissant in a packet. Got some quail eggs in the fridge. Pot of quail eggs. So this is our supermarket special from this little shop here. Got some bread, mayonnaise, and then this pot of stuff that we could not translate. We kept asking him, is it cheese? Is it yogurt? What is it? We couldn't translate it, so we just bought it. It's mustard. Who'd have known, eh? So we're having mustard, mayonnaise, and crisp sandwiches. So the price was something like 2,500, which is like five pounds. And when we went to pay, we just had 5,000 notes and he said, I don't have any change for that. So then he wanted to give us the whole shop for free. He said, just take it. And we were like, no, no, no, we can't just take it. After we gave him the 5,000, he just started grabbing other things. And he's like, take this, take this, take this, take this. So in the end, we ended up with a lot more than we originally planned on getting. But it was really kind of him to offer everything for free. I think that's just really, really nice. Amazing. Welcome to Kazakhstan! Thank you so much. Thank you. It was really nice to see you, to meet you. Perfect! Thank you so much. That's awesome. Cool. No, it's very cool. Do you remember what good buy is in Kazakhstan? Saubon, then. Saubon? Saubon, then? Saubon. Saubon, then? Saubon, then? Rahmet! Okay, cool. That was such a nice stop, hey? Oh my God, suddenly like half of the town was there. We tried to communicate with them. Yeah, they were really cool people. Start the break, just like eating a sandwich on our own. And then by the end of it, it's just like a crowd of people. Yeah, I was going to have a little break just to recover a little bit from the bumpy road. So now it's 83 miles straight and then we are there. So we will make it to where we wanted to get to. It's just taking us a lot longer than we had originally planned. Originally we were like, yeah, it's going to be a four or five hour day. Should be quite easy going. Yeah, now it's more like a 10, 15 hour day. Yeah, anyway, it's half past two now. So let's see how long it takes us to do this last, what was it, 83 miles? 83 miles, yeah. 83 miles, alright. Let's do it. I was on a road. There you go. They don't care, hey? Let's pray that the road is a little bit better. Nope, doesn't look it. Oh, there we are. Ayagos, 150 kilometers. This are the guys we saw. They just scared me. Oh my God. It's not very funny. Because now it's like maximum speed is 20 miles an hour. Yeah, this road got so much worse after that town. You know, even cars, they're just bouncing around as well. Everything's bouncing around on this road, but we're like bouncing double. 20 miles an hour is my max speed, 20. And I'm still bottoming out the wheel. I can still hear it hitting underneath. But yeah, people are very supportive here. Everyone is waving and yeah, it's really cool. As they fly past. Oh my God. But yeah, at this rate it's gonna take us at least another three, three and a half hours. We really can't go any faster. We can't. I'm just hoping that Bumblebee survives the day. I almost just want to jump off and walk. There's something going on over there. There's just a whole bunch of horses running around over there. Then there's a whole load of people watching as well. Yeah. I have no idea what they're doing. Maybe it's like polo. Do the Kazakh-Stani people play polo? No idea. Oh, this guy's stopped. Oh. Hello. Hello. Hi. Hi, hi. I think he just wanted to say hello. Yes, getting smoother. We just entered a section which looks like it's been newly paved and I'm over 30 miles an hour. Yes. So at least at 30, it's gonna take us only two more hours. Yeah, I mean, it will be amazing if the road stays nice. Yeah, this is way smoother. Oh my God, I reckon I might even be able to get to 40. One minute, 37 seconds later. The new part just finished. Oh no. Oh no. Oh. OK, I gotta slow down again. It was like only for like two minutes. We have to get the suspension fixed ASAP. Yeah, so we've been in contact with Motorcycle World, the wonderful dealership in my hometown, Northampton, who gifted us our wonderful Bumblebee for this trip. We emailed them about our shock issue. Those guys are absolutely amazing. They've agreed to send us out a new one for free. Which is absolutely incredible, because that saves us a lot of money. I think a new shock costs like 780 pounds, about a thousand US dollars. So not the cheapest part of the bike to replace. So yeah, hopefully we can get that new shock sent out to Almaty in time, get Bumblebee fixed up, and then it's just gonna be a whole new journey from then on. Yeah, a whole new journey. I'm so excited. Almaty, a rest for us and a rest for Bumblebee. We just stopped here for a little break next to this little graveyard, which is literally in the middle of nowhere. But look at this amazing mausoleum. It's got like towers and a crescent moon on the top there. It's like a whole house. Look at that. Wow. Man, it's windy when you stop though. Oh my God. You don't really realize when you're riding along, but then as soon as you stop, you're like, whoa, it's windy. Anyway, still crawling along. We've done 145 miles today. We've got another 50, 55, I think to go. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Man, it's gonna take us ages. It's currently four o'clock. There's a whole bunch of horses cooling off in the pond. That's the place to be on a day like today. Yeah, the horse swimming pool though. So apparently we've hit an unpaved section, which we had no idea was even here. Yeah, I really thought it's like paved the whole way. But to be honest, it's not much worse than it was before anyway. We're going about the same speed, 15 miles an hour bouncing around just as much as we were before anyway. Look, the truck there, he doesn't even wanna go on the road. He's just going on the dirt. Yeah. It's like no way I'm going here. Oh my God. Please, bumblebee, survive. Please. Some more horses. Yeah, they're so beautiful here. Wow, look at them. Oh, there they go. They're off. Beautiful. What a struggle, hey? Yeah. Oh, this bit is smooth. This bit is smooth. Oh, I'm not bouncing. Yes. I hope it is. Yes, two minutes of nice road. Woo. Wow, it's been such a challenge today. Six days off and then it was like, yeah, ready to take on the road. And then like the first day on the road and I'm like, oh my God. I'm absolutely shattered. Yeah, I'm shattered too. If you want to know what's the worst road we have driven so far on our journey, it's this road. I just can't believe it. It looked so alright on the paper like it was just straight one corner and then straight, just exhausted. So after nine hours of riding, we are finally coming into Ayagos, 210 miles on the road. Oh my God. This is the smoothest road of the day. I think this is actually the road we will take tomorrow, the A3. That would be so nice, hey? I don't know if I can do another day like today. That has absolutely killed me. But anyway, I found on the map a restaurant called Istanbul. So this is where we're heading now just to get hopefully some nice food in our bellies. Okay, so it's coming up in 0.1. It's this place here. This place in front? Yeah. Alright, let's give it a go. Yeah. Hello. England. Good enough for me. The salads arrived already. I got a really nice salad here and here's some fried aubergines with an egg and tomato. My body is just craving vegetables so much. My body is craving cheese, börek and pizza so that's what I've got coming. A few moments later. Yes. Now we're talking. The main course has arrived. Look at these. This is börek and it's just filled with cheese. It's just amazing. Oh my God, I'm so full. Wow. Yeah, we got a doggy bag actually for breakfast for tomorrow morning. Couldn't even finish it all, hey? No. And you know what happened whilst we were there. It's absolutely crazy. So we were just chatting to this couple from Almaty called Gallimjan and Sandugash. And then just before they left, they were like, guys, are you staying at a hotel tonight? And we were like, yeah, yeah, we're gonna be looking for a hotel. Yeah, they said, if you go to Kant Hotel, the room is on us. Just go there, give them your name and you can stay there for free. Oh my God. Can you believe it? Yeah, that's amazing. He just said, I just wanna help you guys out. And I think he could see that we looked absolutely shattered. Really, like, I think he could see that we were like at the end of our rope. And he was just like, these guys need a nice room for the night. That's absolutely amazing. I mean, that means today, first of all, the guy at the grocery store wanted to give us our entire grocery shop for free. And then secondly, that Gallimjan wanted to pay for our room for tonight. I mean, it's just, wow. I'm so, so thankful. Yeah, that's amazing. I feel very, very welcome here in Kazakhstan. That's what I'm talking about. Yeah, totally. The people here in Kazakhstan are next level. So anyway, the hotel is less than a mile away. It's in town. And every road is paved here, which is nice as well. So nice. Look how smooth it is. Yeah. Oh, so smooth. So I think this is the hotel here, eh? Awesome. Wow, look at this. Wow. Good evening, guys. We made it. Ultra happy and ultra alive. We found some bathrobes and we had both a really nice, hot shower and it was brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. It was necessary. Yeah, and look at this room. It's absolutely crazy. Look at the size of this room. So this is just one of the three rooms. Obviously you've got the bathroom. This is like the, I don't know, the living room. And then in here, the bedroom. How cool is that? Gallimjan really treated us so, so, so good to this room. I feel like a queen. Thank you so much. For now, we will just enjoy this ultra nice room and just relax a little bit, charge up our batteries and charge up our GoPro batteries. And then we're praying that tomorrow the road will be a little bit nicer, a little bit more relaxing. I think it's crossed. 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 we will see you next time.