Today will be our last day in Kyrgyzstan and we are looking forward Tajikistan and the Pamir Highway.
We did 271KM until Sary Tash, the last city in the south of Kyrgyzstan. 30 kms away from the border.
Landscape are becoming even nicer, river, huge valley and mountains…
We left Jalal-Abad around 10am and went straight to a gas station. 2kms later, no more powaaaa and the bike stopped. A quick look and petrol leaking everywhere…Shiiiiiit!!!
We set up our technical break at an abandoned petrol station and make the Benelli naked to see what`s going on !
We soon figure out one of the fuel pipe was gone…Small problem.
Nicolas went back to town to find some supports to fix it and 30min later, we were on the road again.
The road was superb, no hole, no rocks…just like we like ! we cruise at 100km/h watching huge mountains on the right, on the left and snow straight far away.
We reached Taldyk pass at 3600 meters. With the lack of O2, our bikes had lots of difficulties to climb. For us the temperature is getting lower and lower, so we changed to winter Daft Punk gears lol.
Kyrgyzstan was a surprising country. People are very kind, of course they all have business senses and you need to negotiate for accommodation and others but most of the time people are helpful. Its surprising how many languages you can hear ; Kyrgyz, French, English and of course most of them able to speak Russian. Not us :(
We learned few words but our iPhone app is helping a lot. More we are getting South and more you can see poverty. Villagers are mostly farmers. We tasted their speciality called Koumiss. Koumiss is a horse milk fermented. We heard some good and bad things about it. It helps to clean your digestive system but also provoke diarhea…We are not pussies, so we stopped by a farm along the road and Gambei few glasses ! Taste was fuck@#$$%^ horrible !!
Locals are always right and i am under Koumiss second effect right now, which is not very comfortable but powaaaaaaa we didi it !
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