As the hotel did not kick us out until midday, we decided to make the best of the money we had spent and had a long lie-in. So we didn’t get out of Atyrau until the early afternoon, and had an uneventful journey to a parking place to the south of Beyneu. We filled the tank with diesel and also the two cannisters we had brought because diesel is very scarce in Uzbekistan.

Landscape of the Ust Yurt Plateau in Uzbekistan’s Karakalpakstan Province.

Nomad tombs in the desert

