Back to Almaty

So we (Dana and I) said goodbye to Saty and drove to Almaty. Dana drove all the way which meant that I could relax which made a nice change,. We had to had east first towards the Charyn Canyon again and then double back on ourselves to the west back to Almaty.

This time I was booked into Wanderlust Hostel not the Ritz. After dropping the car off at the airport and parting ways I got a taxi to the hostel (extortionate) and spent the remainder of the day there. A nice clean hostel with a friendly vibe. I met a guy from Bangladesh who was an itinerant paraglider. His rucksack was basically his paraglider. He had spent 7 years touring and paragliding with trips back to Bangladesh to teach and fund his travelling, He was actually being deported because when he was trying to leave the country his visa was wrong - from what he told me it sounded like a mistake by the authorities rather than his but that didn't stop them deporting him. Seems a bit odd to stop someone as they are leaving the country in order to deport him but nonetheless...

Met up with E/J in the evening for curry and a beer at the Shakespeare. Yes really the Shakespeare, despite this being Kazakhstan not England!

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