Shipping a bike by train in Kazakhstan
Heading Central Asia? Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Pamirs? Well, considering that you are not coming by South way from Turkmenistan, you have a vast land to pass on the way - Kazakhstan. Over 3000km to cover from West to East side. There are plenty of interesting places to visit, I believe, but if you just transit through it, there is an easy and cheap solution to shorten your argueable fascinating ride through sands and steppes.
You may heard of possibility of shipping bikes on Transsiberian railway. Well, Kazakh Railway works same. That is the infrastructure which Soviets left there. In Europe you would probably never even think to load motorcycle on a train just by yourself. In Kazakhstan you have this opportunity.
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