This part of Russia is a popular holiday destination, quite rightly. Beautiful mountains, wild, unregulated rivers. And lots of rain.

I celebrated the end of the rain with a Russian breakfast: caviar, vodka

and dried fish

The others celebrated with some morning exercise.

we managed to repair the car yesterday and left Almaty in the afternoon. To catch up a little bit we drove all night, arrived at the Russian border today in the morning, and are now in Biysk. The goal for tomorrow is to finally enter Mongolia.

Sergey, our mechanic in Almaty, did a very good job:

The roads in Kazakhstan are much better than anything else in Central Asia:

There are even rest areas along the highway:

Sometimes with unusual guests:

This guy bought some oats for his vehicle and off he went:

Driving in the night is tiring, especially in heavy rain like yesterday, but luckily the nights are short here: around 2:30am.you can see the sun rising again:

Hitel Delica:

Crossing the Russian border was quick and easy. But the rain continues and many roads are flooded here too:

this is the place to go

They have everything, even original shocks absorbers for a 30 years old car.