G - Reporting
So today was leaving day from Uzbekistan but 1st we need gas for the truck and for some reason which I never found out there is a shortage of fuel so unless you're willing to line up at 3am - I wasn’t - its black market time, so Odil the B&B owner helpfully offered to come with me, so we drove across town until we came to street where half the houses had what looked like coke bottles full of gas standing outside, we stopped Odil did the talking and 2 20L jerry cans appeared I paid the money 3000som a liter as opposed to 1800 liter normal (72c V $1.20)and I was good to go.
The drive again was easy again just lots of police check points, then the border was a ok passport checks were quick the car search was not too bad but just as I was about to leave they stopped me again and started asking about heroin! I just kept saying no and finally they let me leave.
The kazak side was better 2 customs guys helped us with all the forms one even asked if Wayne Gretsky was still alive there was one bit of confusion, when all the paper work was done we thought they were asking for a “fee” for helping but it turns out they just wanted a souvenir so we gave them some Vancouver bookmarks and postcards and they seemed well chuffed.
After that it was just a 200km drive to Shymkent and we checked into a cheap hotel as we really didn’t feel like camping.
So today was leaving day from Uzbekistan but 1st we need gas for the truck and for some reason which I never found out there is a shortage of fuel so unless you're willing to line up at 3am - I wasn’t - its black market time, so Odil the B&B owner helpfully offered to come with me, so we drove across town until we came to street where half the houses had what looked like coke bottles full of gas standing outside, we stopped Odil did the talking and 2 20L jerry cans appeared I paid the money 3000som a liter as opposed to 1800 liter normal (72c V $1.20)and I was good to go.
The drive again was easy again just lots of police check points, then the border was a ok passport checks were quick the car search was not too bad but just as I was about to leave they stopped me again and started asking about heroin! I just kept saying no and finally they let me leave.
The kazak side was better 2 customs guys helped us with all the forms one even asked if Wayne Gretsky was still alive there was one bit of confusion, when all the paper work was done we thought they were asking for a “fee” for helping but it turns out they just wanted a souvenir so we gave them some Vancouver bookmarks and postcards and they seemed well chuffed.
After that it was just a 200km drive to Shymkent and we checked into a cheap hotel as we really didn’t feel like camping.
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