 Breakfast finished! Good morning world! Welcome back to our circumnavigation around the globe by Motorcycle! We're here in the city of Shinkent in Kazakhstan and it's been a really successful visit here. Firstly the amazing mechanic Kiril replaced our chain and sprocket and the rear wheel bearings and gave Bumblebee an amazing clean. I can't even recognize the bike anymore. It's insane! Bumblebee has never been more ready to hit the road. They also kindly invited us to dinner so we had a really really nice night with them out and we met their friends it was really cool. Apparently Shinkent is really popular for their amazing restaurants and I'm really happy that we could experience something like that. The restaurants are like top quality but like still super cheap. We had some smoked cheese. Went really well with those pants of beer. But this day has also been a really good chance to catch up with some video editing so now we have plenty of episodes to keep you guys happy. It's time to start making some distance across Central Asia and towards Europe. So let me show you guys our upcoming plans. So we are here and over the next week we want to reach here, Aktau on the Caspian Sea but unfortunately there isn't a very direct route to get there. This is Uzbekistan and there's no road going around so we're going to have to follow this road all the way up to Aktaube right near the border to Russia and then take this road back down south all the way around to Aktau. Yes our new mission here in Kazakhstan is to ride to the Caspian Sea, put Bumblebee on a boat, fly over to Azerbaijan and then go and collect her on the other sides. A little bit of a crazy way to do it but it is the only way because normally you would go on a ferry with us and the bike but all the land borders in Azerbaijan are closed so currently the only way they're allowing people to come into the country is by flying in. So Bumblebee gets shipped and we get flown but today is going to be an easy start to a long ride because first we're going to visit the cultural city of Turkestan. Google Maps says it will take us two and a half hours and it's already 11 o'clock so better hit the road let's go. Guys have a look at this amazing clean and beautiful new chain and here new sprocket, new bearings. It just looks so ready to go, right? Awesome thank you so much. Today we go to Turkestan. You visit Turkestan? No. Hold on a second we might be flat one second. Oh no. Hold on. Oh no. Yeah maybe we flat. I think our battery is flat. Yeah okay so we might need to jump it. One of these cars is your cars. We have the cables to connect to the car battery. These cars here is guests not here or maybe when a car passes here we have to stop the car. We get the cables out anyway. So a really good start to the morning. The bike is dead. Note to self make sure that you start the engine every few days because we left it here for seven days dead. Good start. You are two, two people. Yeah where's my wife? Where do you live in Russia? Moscow. Right from Moscow. Moscow, Turkey, Georgia, Armenia. Now we go to the Caspian Sea as it by Jean Georgia, Turkey back to Europe. Yeah we will put the bike on a boat and then we will fly. The only way. So the red is plus and the blue is minus. So there we go good start to the morning hey. Totally. Or should I say even nearly afternoon. Oh no. Oh had the kickstand down. Oh no. Okay I think we're ready to rock and roll. I think so too. Bye bye. Bye bye. Do this little turn hold on. Okay always a turning. Slow maneuvers. Yeah it's a skill I haven't yet mastered. So really glad that Victor another motorcycle tourer was there to help us. Yes and he's touring as well with his wife actually from Moscow. They came down through like he said like Turkey and Georgia. A lot of the places that we are going to be heading over the next month or two. Yeah back on the bike. Yes. You know when you've left the bike long enough to let the battery go dead that you've we've been off the bike for too long. Yeah exactly. No it's awesome to be back on the bike and heading on our way. Yeah it's time to make some progress. We've been here in Kazakhstan for ages already. Yeah Kazakhstan is considered our second home now. We stopped first in Seme. We stopped in Almaty. We stopped here in Shemkent. Yeah and as well just the hotel prices and also the restaurant prices is so reasonable that it was a really good decision for us to stay here. It's the perfect place to have a pit stop really. I mean that apartment was really nice and new. It was really well furnished. It was really comfortable and it's only 17 pounds a night. Amazing. That's a really good price. Yeah to know it's been a really rejuvenating stop. I mean we arrived in Seme like barely humans anymore like so dead after a crazy leg after South Korea, Russia, Mongolia, Russia falling off the bike, breaking my rib, having to deal with chain and sprocket repair as well as the rear shock repair and the bearings. I mean Bumblebee and we personally got repaired here in Kazakhstan. Yeah Kazakhstan's been the pit stop but now it's time for a new adventure. Yeah there's a sign here with the different places and the distances and the one in the UK is Stevenage. Stevenage 5,180 kilometers. I mean never heard about this town. I don't even know where Stevenage is. I don't know if it exists. Why would it fix Stevenage? Or maybe it's twinned with Stevenage. Oh maybe. I'm gonna look it up. Look we are closer to Thailand than to England. Wow. It's crazy hey. I can't believe we're still this far east. Yeah. We've got to make some distance west. Okay green. Can I introduce you to our new AC? Aka the Moscow Motor Campbell bag. Yeah get the water down my back. Under here and here. Oh yeah that's good. Nice. Oh my god. Oh that's so nice. It is ridiculously hot at the moment like 36 degrees this morning. Yeah it's mad. It's really really mad. We've got to get our t-shirts a little bit wet and then maybe we can survive. Anyway we made it out of the city and from here it's now 100 miles two hours on our way to Turkestan. Yeah coming into Turkestan. Oh look they've got a nice a big Turkestan sign. Cool. It looks like a really really modern place here actually you know. Yeah look at all this development here. It looks like really really really new. Yeah and the camels. Yeah look at that. An homage to the ancient paths where people would have come down this way in camel trains. Yeah wow it's like ultra modern developments all around here. Oh look at this place it's like a mega hotel resort. Wow. Oh look there's an Irish pub there apparently. I want to stay in there. Nice. It's nice to see that they put a lot of green space in between as well. Yeah planted a lot of trees. Whoa look at these giant peacocks and I think they're made out of like bushes. Is that plants or is it fake plants? I think it's fake. It's fake plants. Yeah. Still an impressive roundabout look at that. Yeah and there's like an arena. Very impressive place actually. Anyway apparently in two minutes we will arrive at our place. Yeah we found this place on booking.com but we're not 100% sure that the location that they've listed on booking.com is the right place because it's like quite a cheap room but it seems to be like directly in the center of the city so I'm thinking it's a bit too good to be true to be honest. Yep turning here. The plan for today is basically to get to the hotel park Bumblebee take off our gear and then go and sight see because this city Turkestan is an ancient city and is basically the cultural capital of Kazakhstan. You can already see how important this place is and how impressive this place is. And actually the place that we're going to be seeing is a UNESCO World Heritage site as well but first we'll get Bumblebee parked up we'll get this gear off so we don't die. Yeah and then we can tell you guys a bit more about Turkestan and the places we're going to visit. Okay it says that's it. I think it is that one. Yep this one. Bamon. Bamon Ortagili. This is the one. Let's see if this is correct. This is not the place. I've had a look on Google I think it's like one block further down this road. I'll have a check. Hot hot hot hot hot hot hot Okay okay it should be this one Hotel Alpimis. Okay Yes this is the one. Okay let's check it out. So here we are we've made it to Turkestan. Turkestan is one of the most ancient cities in Kazakhstan with archaeological records dating back to the fourth century. It's also an important center for the Islamic religion and in 2021 the Turkic states named Turkestan the spiritual capital of the Turkic world. The name Turkestan even means land of the Turks. Its prominence is all due to a Sufi shake called Khoja Ahmed Yasawi who lived and died here in the 10th century and he was so important to the ancient Islamic world that in the 14th century a great mausoleum was built around his grave and that mausoleum is just over there and it's actually a UNESCO world heritage site and Turkestan's most famous attraction but before we visit there we've got to get something to eat because I am hungry. So we found this place on google maps and it's supposedly like a buffet style place so hopefully we can find something. Oh look at that. There's loads and loads and loads of stuff. Unfortunately there are no good vegetarian options so I have chosen some filled peppers potatoes. I've got some unspecified meat in a sauce with some potato but literally it's crazy on the whole buffet we asked her what's this what's this what's this miasa miasa miasa it's like meat meat meat meat meat all the way around so we just got to go for it. Oh there's actually some cheese on top on my one that's good but guys Kazakhstan is so cheap like this place was considered as a little bit more expensive but we paid like one plate and a drink three pounds 50 so we paid together seven pounds. Wow this is a beautiful garden surrounding the mausoleum look at these rows of rows of roses rows of roses yeah this place is super impressive it's absolutely crazy how many gardeners there are here like there are people everywhere like cutting the roses mowing the lawn there's so much work going on here it's crazy so this is the mausoleum of Kozha Ahmed Yasawi and it was built between 1389 and 1405 by the ruler of Central Asia at the time called Timur but interestingly the building wasn't actually finished so in 1405 Timur died and then all construction work was basically stopped this is a UNESCO world heritage site and pretty much the centerpiece of this amazing city so let's go have a look inside this mausoleum has 35 rooms and the entire building is built out of fired bricks well look how grand this entrance is you can see all of these one of these sticks sticking out the walls this behind us would be the main hall but it's actually closed at the moment because they're doing reconstruction work on the inside you can see like this huge amount of scaffolding on the inside this main hall is actually called a Kazantayek and it's interesting because the dome that tops this hall is actually the largest dome in all of Central Asia hello Kazakhstan hello guys nice thank you thank you thank you did you go inside uh-uh no i don't know what is that first of all i don't know what is that it's absolutely this is a post office so we're up on the walls of the ancient city now and here we can get a much better view of this super cool dome on top of the mausoleum and just the scale of how massive this mausoleum is it's absolutely incredible it's interesting because actually this design became the basis for the building of the city of Samarkand in Uzbekistan so the architectural styles of this mausoleum are really really influential in later islamic architecture so there we are the mausoleum of Kozha Ahmed Yasawi a 1000 year old ancient wonder of the world but we desperately have to walk back now yeah i think it's close to 40 degrees right now so it's time to get to the ac 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 good way to call you down and how cool is this guys look at this look at this from our hotel room window we can see the mausoleum i have never stayed in a hotel room before where i can see a UNESCO world heritage site from the window for under 20 pounds that's mental