The road, in numbers
25 October 2008
For the ones who ask "how far is it": from the stall to the stall, about 36 hours if God is kind.
- Talas to the North Terminal and across into Kazakhstan: 1 hour, then 2 hours for the paper.
- Bus to Almaty: 9 hours. 22 dollars.
- One night in Almaty at the cousin of my friend. She snores. 5 dollars for the tea and the floor.
- Almaty to Urumqi: the big night bus, 55 dollars one way, 24 hours if the Khorgos border is nice, 30 if not.
The papers are another story: my ISEZ papers are good for crossing the street, so I go with the Kyrgyz paper from the Almaty office, 60 dollars a year. Everybody does. Nobody says it.
The night bus to Urumqi, 6 p.m. Everyone has the same blue bag.
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Respect, Kunduz-apa. I get tired on the Talas-Nurzhan marshrutka.
Two stalls away and I have never read how you do it. Tell the part about the toilet.
Mairam. No.
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