Tag Archives: Kazakhstan 🇰🇿
apologies to the Caboose
Slight change of plans. People had been telling me about the REAL canyon. It wasn’t here where I was. It was somewhere far away, and it was supposed to be awesome. So I left the place with the nice trees and the nice feeling of safety and got back on the road: I crossed the […]
the gun scare
This is going to be a long one because some shit happened. But read for yourself if you like. Or just watch the videos. … I got up and left Shonzhy early in the morning, because I wanted to get to a certain Charyn Canyon in the west. The small town seemed to be still […]
the ribbon
Spent another day in Shonzhy (though the people here seem to call it “Chunzha”). By loading the video, you agree to YouTube’s privacy policy.Learn more Load video Always unblock YouTube I went into a fruit shop: And even though I wasn’t feeling that well, I somehow still ended up buying a huge watermelon. I think […]
the green light
Stayed in today, and yet I somehow managed to almost get run over. It happened on my way out to have some Uyghur food (which was awesome, btw): I was on my way back when, after walking for a few days, always checking left and right for cars, I almost got run over at this […]
heat
I woke up at five in the morning. I was in a small room on a sort of kang-style bed: And I wasn’t alone. I had spent the night with a man who introduced himself as Jackson: Apparently because his original name sounded a bit alike. And Jackson had to get up early in the […]
what good is a shrub?
When I got up this morning, I figured I’d do a bit more walking than the day before: It was easy at first: I walked a light 20km, and I basically felt invincible. There were no villages. One time these two serious-looking guys stopped just to give me a lollipop: I offered them some of […]
cats and dogs
I left Zharkent early in the morning… …because I wanted to get as far as I could before the sun started punishing the land. I walked down a long tree-lined road: And I saw a cyclist once. He looked like an old man, and he had a Swiss flag attached to his bicycle. He didn’t stop. In […]
run by little girls
I stayed in today. Did some laundry, walked around a bit. Some thoughts: By loading the video, you agree to YouTube’s privacy policy.Learn more Load video Always unblock YouTube One time I ended up in a store that sold wedding dresses: They had European dresses and traditional Kazakh ones. I liked the Kazakh ones better, […]
all the other countries
I left early in the morning, and when I did, I saw a sparrow’s nest that the people here were keeping next to a window: I had noticed the bird in the corridor the night before, but I had thought nothing of it. Now I knew that the bird somehow belonged here. Walking was tough but good. The […]
bye-bye Zhongguo
It all started with a hangover. I woke up feeling terrible. So I just lay there for a while. The ceiling was there. The room was there. The hotel was there. Everything was there. Nothing was missing. I was ready to go. Yet I didn’t really want to. I made the decision to leave around noon. That’s when […]