July 28, 2011

• The Silk Road (Sort Of) Overland
  Monday 25 July 2011
  
  The info on my Uzbek visa was that it will be ready “any day now”. If I could just book train tickets for same-day travel within Kazakhstan, I could make use of this waiting time and see the other places I want to see (e.g. Turkistan). However, the trains are as full as ever.

  Basically, the only thing I managed to do today was to book another night at the hotel I’m staying at – after failing to find an overnight train ticket to Astana (the receptionist said there was a ticket, but it was gone when I went to the train station) or to Shymkent/Turkistan.

  I went up the Kök-Töbe Cable Car (nice view) in the evening, but I still can’t help feeling that spending most of the day running from booking office to booking office is a waste of a day. Compared to yesterday, I feel like today, my holiday is “off”.

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