Visa Marathon in Dushanbe

7 th of October and third day in Dushanbe:

 

In the morning we go to the Kazakh embassy and it is fortunately ery easy. We just need to wait until Friday. Again for Kotomi it is free and I have to pay 44 USD. Also the Uzbek Visa cost for Kotomi just 18 and for me 62 USD. I am happy that I married a Japanese girl (:)! After all that we drive out of the town to have silence and peace to write Blog at a nice camp at a river. Buuuuuuuuut after some while thousands of kids are coming and screaming. Always the same and only word they can remember from their Russian lessons, mamuschka, papuschka, or maybe just words from Russian TV. Under thousands of eyes I repair once more one tire at the river. The hole was really small but enough to loose the air over two or tree days.

 

(N 38.66076°, E 68.69555 °)

 

8th of October:

 

Still one day to wait but since the place is not really silent we decide to go back to the town and to sleep in a guesthouse. Before, we want to say good Bye to Gulia. Saying bye bye finally ends there in cooking and chatting together. Today we make pumpkin mantus, while talking about her life and the situation in her new family. Again we stay there over night.

 

(N 38.52584°, E 68.74968 °)

 

9th of October:

 

We are picking up the Kazakh Visa, buying diesel and food, go north over a mountain pass.  After 50 km the road starts to be horrible again. The shock absorbers of the car seem to be totally broken now. The car is swinging over the road and it is real pain to drive. Although the landscape is beautiful I am just concentrated on driving. We make a camp in a narrow valley. Since Kotomi got flew from Gulias kid and does not feel so well we decide to stay here one more day. The place is noisy because of the close by road. But still it is a beautiful place. I am cooking and making Sanddorn juice, which is good supply for Vitamin C. It takes a long time and finally you just get a little juice, but it is worth to do. The tea gets really delicious with it. Actually Sanddorn comes from Central Asia and the Caucasus. We can find it at the Baltic Sea and also around our lakes a lot, but the origin is here. (Thanks to Hartmut we know this now.)

 

(N 39.18418°, E 68.76577 °)