First day in Aktau and to avoid the deportation issue I faced in Azerbaijan, I decided to go to immigration and register. The problem was trying to find their offices. The City does not use road names and building addresses are block numbers, so the address to the immigration office is microdistrict 3, house 123. Apparently this is a hold over from when the City was originally built and envisioned as nothing more than a man camp for the oil industry. The problem now is that neither I. nor Google Maps, understand this system. However, thanks to a hotel clerk that took mercy and emailed the coordinates for the building, I found the office and checked in. Apparently, I didn't need to though, visa free countries do not need to register. I requested the stamp anyway (corrupt police will try to extort money and not having a stamp is one way they do it), and they seemed to understand.
The City of Aktau is comprised mostly of older apartment blocks that are so typical here in the former Soviet Union. There literally must be hundreds of thousands of these things. There is not a lot of construction going on in the City so I imagine things will be status quo for a while to come. It seems as though the oil money has not yet found it way here.
Tomorrow I leave for Uzbekistan. The nine hour run to the border is barren in terms of population, greenery, and well everything. There is just one small town and no hotels until well past the border crossing. The ride should take three days, so it looks as if I will be camping for the next couple of nights. The weather should be clear but cold. C'est La Vie
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The City of Aktau is comprised mostly of older apartment blocks that are so typical here in the former Soviet Union. There literally must be hundreds of thousands of these things. There is not a lot of construction going on in the City so I imagine things will be status quo for a while to come. It seems as though the oil money has not yet found it way here.
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| Greta Getting Some Much Needed Beach TIme |
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| Standard Soviet Housing Blocks |
Tomorrow I leave for Uzbekistan. The nine hour run to the border is barren in terms of population, greenery, and well everything. There is just one small town and no hotels until well past the border crossing. The ride should take three days, so it looks as if I will be camping for the next couple of nights. The weather should be clear but cold. C'est La Vie
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Total Distance Traveled by Motorcycle: 24,124 mi (38,794 km)
Countries/Territories Visited: USA, Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Argentina, Uruguay, Canada, Portugal, Spain, Morocco, Gibraltar, France, Monaco, Italy, Vatican City, San Marino, Slovenia, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Czech Republic, Poland, Ukraine, Transnistria, Moldova, Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Greece, Turkey, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan
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