Bye, bye Central Asia – Danke für unvergessliche spannende Abenteuer

228 Tage Van-Life: Begleite uns auf langen 2.430 Kilometern einmal quer durch Kasachstan und seine endlose Steppe.

Kurz vor Aktobe erwischt uns noch einmal ein technisches Problem, das wir Dank eines guten Kontaktes in Deutschland lösen können.

In Atyrau machen wir einen Zwischenstopp, um uns mit Lisa und Philipp zu treffen, unserer Reisebekanntschaften aus der Pamir Region. Sei dabei, wenn wir zusammen ein eisiges Highlight besuchen. Ab Atyrau reisen wir weiter in Begleitung von Adéle und ihrem Fahrrad in Richtung Westen.

By, bye Zentralasien. Wir werden deine freundlichen Menschen, die Hitze der Steppe, die Kälte deiner schneebedeckten Gipfel, deine Kulturgüter, deine malerischen Landschaften und deine abenteuerlichen Straßen vermissen.

Wir sind Petra und Christoph und für ein Jahr unterwegs mit unserem Pössl Kastenwagen 2Win R. Unser Weg führt uns nach Osten über den Balkan, durch den Kaukasus und die zentralasiatischen Staaten Kasachstan, Usbekistan und Tadschikistan entlang der Seidenstraße. Jeden Sonntag berichten wir aus unserem Van Life.

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Liebe Grüße aus Kasachstan

Petra & Christoph

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Welcome to our new video from Kazakhstan. This week it’s about getting to know each other, it’s about seeing each other again and saying goodbye. All of this is after the intro. Stay tuned. We are Petra and Christoph from Hamburg. We spend a year in the smallest space

With the greatest possible freedom in our Pössl panel van. Our path takes us across the Balkans, through the Caucasus and the Central Asian states along the Silk Road. On this midlife journey, we fill in blank spaces on our personal map. Filling.White.Spots. Some people may have asked themselves where we are now.

As vigilant observers, you of course noticed that we have now arrived in Kazakhstan through Uzbekistan. And that’s exactly right, we’re moving west again. Starting next Saturday, we will be transiting through Russia again for three days and then traveling to Turkey via Georgia.

The background is quite simply that the 14 days that we stood in Tajikistan with our engine problems meant that we could only have traveled to Kyrgyzstan for a very, very short time before the winter set in even harder. We wanted to avoid that and

Therefore decided that we would return at a later date so that we could travel the wonderful country of Kyrgyzstan for a longer period of time with enough time. That won’t be next year and probably not the year after that, but you never know. On Saturday we will be transiting through Russia,

And tomorrow we will meet Adéle in Atyrau, a French woman who we met on Facebook in one of the overlander groups. Adéle travels by bike, and with this bike she wouldn’t have gotten a visa for Russia, and we have now offered to take her with us and

Strap her bike to the back. We have enough space. And so we’re driving through Russia again with someone for three days, and we think it’s great. In any case, that gives us a really good feeling. And we are very excited to see Adéle tomorrow and of course we will take you with us.

We have 2,430 km ahead of us to the Russian border. We know the steppe of Kazakhstan. What’s new for us is experiencing them in the northern German fog. Good morning out of the middle of nowhere in Kazakhstan. Yesterday we

Experienced another new episode from the category: get to know your vehicle. We are on a country road that is a bit challenging, to put it mildly. That means there are glaring potholes and we

Crashed into one of these potholes relatively quickly or at a relatively high speed. And then immediately there was a message from the on-board system saying “fuel supply interrupted”, the hazard warning lights came on, we couldn’t turn them off, and we barely

Made it to this, not exactly very nice, place or this bay. The on-board computer then reported “Please check the on-board manual”. That’s what I did then. That’s probably a security principle. This means that the computer thinks there has been an accident and then cuts off the fuel supply

And breaks the electrical circuit. But there is a button that you can press and you can use it to reset it, so to speak. But we couldn’t find it, even though it was described in the manual. I then called a very dear customer of mine who had recently written to me

After we had engine problems and she then told me that a friend of hers was a Citroën dealer and that we could call him if we had problems and got stuck . And yesterday the time had come, even though it was Sunday, I thought, well,

I’ll just give it a try. I then called him and he was super, super helpful. Thank you very much at this point, Michael. And then he did some research himself, sent us pictures of exactly where this reset button was located, and we actually got it done and the engine started

Again. By now it was relatively dark, so we decided to go there There’s room to stay, even though it’s anything but pretty, as you can see here. Now we’re heading to Aktobe. That’s another 120 km, I think. Given the road conditions,

I think it will probably take around 3 hours. We’ll just get back to you later. Sometimes it’s worth taking a detour. We find out about the nature of possible routes through Kazakhstan in various Facebook groups and decide on the route via Aktobe. Except for a small section, it is very well developed.

In Aktob itself we only stop to shop and stay overnight. The next morning the November blues are gone and we are happy to see blue skies and sunshine again. We arrange to meet Adéle for lunch. During our first conversation, we discover that

Some of her travel acquaintances are also ours. In the end, Central Asia is a village after all. In the afternoon we meet with Lisa and Philipp from Duisburg. We met the two in an Indian restaurant in Khorog. Because almost all Overlanders now

Operate social media channels, it is easy to find out where and when their paths cross. After a fun afternoon in the van, we visit the Atyrau ice hockey hall in the evening. Atyrau meets Rudnyi in the first Kazakh league.

We are looking forward to an exciting ice hockey game, for which we pay an entry fee of €2 per person. The atmosphere in the almost sold-out hall is great. In the end, Atyrau won the game 6:3. We stay at the ice rink for the night and look forward to a beautiful sunrise.

Before we set off towards the Russian border, we take Adéle and her bike on board. I would like to share with you something that is now part of this journey for me. filling.white.spots has the addition “Petra and Christoph on a midlife journey”. For us this means

That we are the generation between the children, on the one hand, and our mothers, on the other. Before we started this trip, we obviously thought a lot about what it actually means to be away for a year when you

Still have your mothers. Of course, I also talked to my mother about this topic and she always said, Hey Christoph, you have to do your thing. If you want to go on a trip like that, do it while you’re young and don’t take me into account. You’ve

Done so much for me, it’s all good. It would be nice if you would just get in touch from time to time. Logically, we spoke on the phone regularly. Last week I got a call that my mother had come to the hospital. Petra and I then

Returned to Tashkent. I booked a flight to Hamburg. And during the stopover in Istanbul I got a call from the hospital saying that my mother had fallen asleep peacefully and gently that night. We are of course very happy that we flew back to Hamburg in September halfway through our trip.

I met my mother again for two days. I still think back to the last day we spent with her in March. It was a super, super nice day. Super intense. Before that day, I was actually a bit scared because I thought that this feeling that this

Might be the last time we’ll see each other definitely resonates, but I think we probably both had these thoughts. But it was still just a really nice day. As you know, I have now returned to Central Asia and, as I have already said,

That is now just part of this trip. And that’s why I wanted to tell you this.