Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Crossing the Kyril Kum (Kazakhstan)

Today we traversed much of the Kyril Kum Desert in Kazahstan. To paraphrase the Qantas drill subtly, all desert is different.


Anti-erosion measures. We also saw these in China.

For a stretch of several hundred k's the villages houses had colourful roofs.


Out of the blue, a large channel of water. Evaporation must have been enormous.


Goatherd and flock.


More desert


Lots of camels, some wild, some owned. Didnt see any in Uzbekistan.





Setting up shop on the station.



Plastic bottle collection. Someone has taken the trouble to skewer them on a string but bundled them up then left them to blow about. Again, not seen anywhere else.



Every crossing we saw, no matter how remote, had a set of signals.
Some which seemed remote also had a boom gate barrier.



Drink sellers vying for business.



Desert sunrise.

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