The final section of road into Almaty was some of the best road we have seen yet.
We got in to Almaty pretty late in the day, and ended up once again checking in to the first hotel we could find. Which turned out to be an expensive one.
As we were booking in, they called one of the senior staff down who could speak some english to help us, and as we were arranging the room, Cory asked her (innocently) if there was any place close by where we could go to to meet some "cute local girls like her", she didn't miss a beat before cheerfully replying that the hotel staff would be happy to arrange "girls" to come right to our rooms... there was a moment of stunned silence before Cory blurted out... "...ummm I didn't mean hookers" She didn't seem to think his request was weird, and just shrugged her shoulders and smiled.
One of the problems with expensive hotels here, is they still don't seem to get everything right. So you pay North American rates, but get something less. This one didn't have hot water, or internet. Even though it was supposed to have both. We parked our bikes outside the 24 hour carwash out back, it didn't seem to help, as we had our first theft off the bikes.. someone stole Cory's Hula girl. Doesn't sound like much, but we both were pretty upset. The Hula girls mean a lot to us.
585 km today
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