Day 16
Yesterday we drove 620 km and today 580 km, meaning 10 hours in the car per day. What we have seen in Kazakhstan is green fields, but no sign of agriculture. There were some large plants with huge funnels exhausting a heavy yellow-grey smoke. Probably some kind of ore plants.
Roads are good, you can see that investments are made in infrastructure. We arrived in Nur-Sultan, former Astana, yesterday at 5 pm. It is a very modern city with construction going on everywhere. It is the Dubai of this region.
We had three special stages today. All were great fun, again a lot of mud. It sticks to the car and gets as hard as concrete.
Met a few car enthusiasts who are running a blog. Together we went to get rid of the dirt, it took an hour’s steam cleaning to get the mud to dissolve. Great guys are very enthusiastic about cars.
