+1 for the book. Read it before we spent 3 weeks driving through it. Riveting.
Fortunately we didn't experience any form of bribery/crime, quite the opposite in fact and found the people to be some of the friendliest I'd met! Driving down to Aral'sk we bumped into a broken down coach and its driver attempting to repair it...had been stuck there for four days in 30C heat relying solely on passing road users to supply the tools and food he needed. A happier person you could not have met.
A smile seems to do the trick almost everywhere....
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