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How long did it take you? And are you caming or staying at hotels? Any recommendations? Thanks!
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It took us two days, we when to a hotel in ataray. It cost around 100 dollar for a good room. But you get others alot cheaper. Then we camped yesterday. It is was fantastic.

Calculate 300 km a day.
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I have stayed in many / most of tge hotels on the map. Kazakhstan is not a cheap country. In the cities the hotels in KZ are typically 100 bux a night for a double or more. In small towns they are more like 40-60 bux a night per double room.

In Mongolia they are typically 10 -15 bux a night
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That also the prices we find here. We found a cheaper hotel 20dollars a night for a double room, but that was old run down soviet style hotel where the upper floors a closed because of water damage. Fungus on the walls and no working toilet and paper thin matresses. We used our camping gear inside the room to sleep nicely. 42*54'46"N 71*22'21"E in Taraz if anybody is interested.

The road from aktobe to almaty is all new asfalt. But several section are not finnished yet. Especialy around baikonur spacestation. There you have to drive on dirt tracks along the construction sites, around 200km in all. But they seem to be almost finnished, they should open the new sections this year.
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Thanks for the info!

I'm setting off tomorrow at 7am, first stop, Grenoble. Travel safe and I'll keep in touch from the road!
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Mongolia

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5 of July we will start to Mongolia from central Poland
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I'll be crossing into Mongolia from Ulan Ude tomorrow, I hope. I plan on heading south into the Gobi, and then West towards Altai.

May see some of you en route. Keen to hear how the "roads" are!
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Hello, for info it is possible to put the bike on a train to a Shymken actobé.
I did last June with my 1200GSA (a made Bergerac/astrakan/Samarkand/khorog/osh and go back)
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I am pretty much looking at entering Kazakhstan at the border near Ozinki and then staying in the north and leaving at the Shemonaikha/Zmeinogorsk border to head off to Mongolia
Can any one give me a rough guesstimate on how long it will take me to transit Kazakhstan on that route, as I will be leaving he UK with the Kazakhstan and Mongolia visas and only have about 25/28 days to get through Kazakhstan?
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Rode Astrakhan to cross into Kazakhstan, Ponton Bridge 50r. Ferry free and more fun. Stayed at Riverside Inn/hotel in Atyrau. If you book inadvance it's $32 a night. Secure parking and ex pats in Bar.
Atyrau to Aqtobe starts ok, then 200 km of no road. Returning to bad roads. I did it ok in 12 hrs on a CRF250L. Fell off in some soft wet sand. It's been raining a lot.
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