Damn .... To say that I rant against the Chinese DDE, although I have campaigned for the creation of Highways Kazakh ....
Mainline mined for hundreds of miles, alternating with the track ... The Kazakh taking the problem of road network with their philosophy, perhaps do not they know that their president has amassed huge amounts of money since coming to power in 1989: he is currently one of the largest fortunes in the world ... In the meantime, they advise us to do just very careful with all these gaping holes of killers Car " as they call themselves!
"The road kill me" ... We continue our journey due north, across the steppes stretching to infinity ... It was now against us a kiss fairly constant despite cold the bright sun (Siberia is just a few hundred kilometers) .
We discover a new wildlife: many prairie dog cross the road and come to rest by looking at our car sliding into a soft whistle (Covered by the sound of gravel which come gun down the chassis and my swearing repeatedly in the state of the road ...)
Many salt lakes along the way now. 
Another day classified as "green" by Bison Smart ... 
Upon a Time in the East ... We often ends in step with apprehension because like what we could find in China sometimes the names of towns marked on the map correspond very often to simple villages where electricity (such as water for that matter) is distributed only sparingly ... However, we always (at least so far) to find a way to connect us, or over 380V or over 220V. The garages are real mines in this area : 380V generally provided by the owners always appear interested and excited to help us continue our journey they see as "economic" before being "green" ...
Small recharge in the depths of the steppe, with the help of the gracious and jovial Renat ... In the background, the connection is still handmade, but it works! 
"You see, we would love to get there ..." Yesterday, one of them, we also cordially invited to share the family meal, and then we finally hosted for the night ...
Conversations are certainly still limited, but over the hours (and glasses of vodka ..), we can connect somehow. How many children? What are they? What are the Kazakh dishes? Nazerbaïev policy, the country's president? The problem of the current economic crisis in the service sector, white-collar? (Nooooon but, now that's not true).
We find that our host is also a hunter, he disappears for a moment and returns with a "12 caliber" he proudly displays a hand while wielding animal skins on the other ....
"maismaismais they are wolf skins" , I stammered, the words coming out my loose after a dozen vodkas .....
"Da" we replied he, pointing his whole row of teeth gold "here there are many! . Well we will be careful when you go pee in the wilderness, so ....
Guests and Geraldine. No, it does not take a small glass of mineral water ... We continue our journey to gently Semey notorious for being the "capital of Soviet nuclear tests" until 1989. No pun intended, we will avoid the mushrooms .... (Pfff sorry, I'm going to bed).
And three police checks Kazakhstan, 3! Xav
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