Today we were heading for a place called Naryn, which had been described as a small town, with nowhere to stay, no fuel to buy, and no food to eat ! So that's was it... fill up every receptacle with petrol, and stuff the pockets full of Snickers bars.
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| Still can't shake the mountains on our left. |
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| Some wild horses ... a bit like the New Forest but they move faster. |
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| Not long before the climb. |
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| And finally, mountains. |
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| The road was amazing, considering it pretty much led to no-where. |
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| Nice lakes .... |
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| ... and the rivers that feed them. |
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| But eventually we got to a bit they had not finished yet. |
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| Waiting on Jeremy |
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| Then as we got closer, some road works appeared, and I was confused. |
After all, Naryn was supposed to be the last outpost before China... maybe the rumours were wrong, maybe it had gone through a renaissance, but we headed for a "new" hotel that Jeremy had dug up on the net. It wasn't through a booking site, just a poor website that was not in English and seemed dated.
The gates were locked, so we rode around them expecting to find a derelict or abandoned place, but instead found a spotless collection of three new hotel buildings, set in soon to be manicured grounds...
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| The first was a wooden affair... |
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| ... with the other two rather more conventional. |
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| The restaurant (and chandeliers) would not have looked out of place in Buckingham Palace.... |
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| .... and they served Pizza !! |
Well, what an end to the day ... and it just goes to show when touring ... expect the unexpected. So after stuffing my face on pizza & beer (probably the last for a month) I retired to my "log cabin". Honestly, I think I was the first to sleep in the room, judging by the manufacturing stickers still in the shower tray and lining the bog !
For future global travellers, its called the
Khan Tengri Hotel, and as with everywhere I stay, it will be on Open Street Map for all to find.
So a final good nights sleep was planned, as tomorrow night was going to be in a freezing tent at 3000 mts .... and thats assuming we could find fuel to get there.
zzzzzz zzzzzzzz zzzzz
