Head wind at 50 km/h
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Also the trees in the signs suffer the wind
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Signs in the steppe
Our Cinelli Hobo under a red sign
Lunch break
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GoPro recording our camping spot
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No trees in the steppe
Just these small arbusts
Uphills and downhill
It's not true that the steppe is completely flat
Over a canyon in the steppe
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Steppe canyon
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60 km from Aktau
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Resting at the side of the road
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In Central Asia road construction are everywhere
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Promotion of Oil company
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Oil plants
From Aktau to Shetpe there are many plants like this
Oil plants
From Aktau to Shetpe there are many plants like this
Zhetybay
First village after Aktau. A small market, crazy kazakh people and a lot of mud!
Horses
At the entrance of Zhetybay
Horses
After Zhetybay
A dusty day
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Our second camping spot in the steppe
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Very bad road
The asphalt was in horrible conditions
Kilometer marker
Road was horrible, and we always knew the km we were riding
Camels
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Marked camel
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Camel
With a nice dress
Camels
They were coming back home by their own
Daniele with GoPro
Chasing camels
Disappointment
The camel was too shy to be recorded on video
The beginning
Still a lot of kilometers to Beyneu
Drinking tea with workers
In a small chayana on the road
Welcome to Mangistau
They let us sleep inside in one of the worst night in the steppe
Welcome to Mangistau
They let us sleep inside in one of the worst night in the steppe
Good morning
Ready for a new day?
Very bad road before Shetpe
Again!
Very bad road before Shetpe
Again!
People on the road
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Oil plants promotion
Again!
Shetpe
Strange people in town
Shetpe
Strange people in town
Shetpe
One of the muddiest market we have ever been
Two locomotives
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Break resting from wind
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They stopped the car to have a picture with us
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Same colors
Our bike and the steppe sand
Sidecar
They use to go everywhere, even on the worst roads of the steppe
Cycling in infinite roads
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Mask windproof
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Blue skies in the steppe
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Infinite roads
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Infinite roads
Great sky at the sunset
Sheeps and goats gazing
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A wonderful shepherd with his donkey
He was a great photographic subject, it's a shame I didn't shoot him more pictures
Windy night
We had to pitch the tent with stones
Windy night
We had to pitch the tent with stones
A garbage bin
A rarity in the steppe
Great road and great day
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Construction in the middle of nothing
They should be cementeries
Wind, clouds and great skies
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Hilly road
Resting a moment
Mask and Bar Mitts
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The steppe train
We have been always together
Many layers clothes
Base layer and pants
The asphalt is going to end soon
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The very steep non-asphalted uphill
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Pushing the bike in the wind
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Frozen Brooks saddles
After a very cold night
Camping on asphalt
Because of the mud there wasn't a better place to put the tent. We camped on the new asphalt of the road under construction. Because of the strong wind we pitched the tent with our own bags. Patent pending
Good morning
In the fog at -6 degrees
Sometimes we need a stand
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Mud everywhere
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Mud everywhere
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In the village of Say-Otes
A very small village with a small market and a lot of mud
Electricity in the air
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Blue (really blue) sky on the endless road
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The light was really very sharp that day
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Great colors, sharp light and my Cinelli Hobo
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Sky and infinite steppe
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The sunset
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Our bikes waiting to camp
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Sunset
It looks like a nice camping spot, isn't it?
Stars in the sky and cars on the road
8 days in the steppe and this was the only night without clouds
Stars in the sky and cars on the road
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Our friend in the morning
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Our tent along an abandoned carriage
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Everything frozen
The bags and the kazakh flag, a present of a truck driver
The carriage behind
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Hobo in the cold steppe
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Going back on the main road
Fog, ice on the road and cars traces
Cycling at -5 degress
Everything freeze up
Frozen transmission
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Frozen transmission
I don't know how we still manage to change gear
Asphalt is good
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Also GoPro is freezing
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Our Cristhmas balls
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Memories from Rome
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Women family
They own a new cafè along the road, and they offered us a cup of hot coffe and a shelter to have lunch
Froze Brakes
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The wheel spokes
Between mud and ice
Recording
The video-diary of the steppe
Camoing spot at 60 km from Beyneu
Frozen ground, impossible to pitch the tent. We used the bags again
Kazakh shepherd
Gazing sheeps with a bike at -6 degrees
Tyre fixed with a cord
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We gave him our sticker
We hope he will keep it on his bike for a long time
Jute cover for his saddle
To be more comfortable or against the cold?
Portrait of the kazakh shepherd
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Tea on the road
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We are almost in Beyney!
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Oil price in Kazakhstan
99 Tenge, around 0.50 Euro
Beyneu
Dimitri, we met him in the hotel in Beyneu
Beyneu
Giant poster of the kazakh president
Beyneu
Pedestrian road in the center covered by snow
Beyneu
Father and son
Beyneu
Stalactites from the roof
