Saturday 16 September (Day Seventeen)
Train to Kyzylorda at AM 3:30
Train to Kyzylorda was at 3:30 AM and we had to leave Aral Sea Hotel around 2;30 AM. Always it was difficult for me to wake up in the middle of sweet dream and I started reading materials about Aral Tenizi laying down on the bed. The thing
I found from that material was there was a monument on which the letter from V.I. Lenin to praise the provision of fish during the war in the square in front of city hall, which was surely a sign of the good old days of fishing industry. I suddenly wanted to go to that place to take a photo. My camera could well take a photo in the middle of the night and if we only have some time to drop by. When we met at the hotel lobby, I asked Lailya to ask Mr Askarov whether the square was on the way to railway station. Askarov asked why I asked that kind of question. And I told the story about that monument. The responses were a short remark that why I had not told him before and a grumpy old man’s face. Even before Lailya translated his remarks, I instantly understood that it was not that important whether that square was on the way to the railway station or not. My camera was capable of taking photo but he was not willing to go.
Arrival in Kyzylorda at AM 11:40
Different from our journey from Kyzylorda, we soon decided to go for sleeping. I took the upper of the bunker beds and it was not that bad. When I woke up there was already sunshine penetrating through the window. Getting off the platform, we soon found the face of our driver, Bakhchan.
Hotel Bereke
The hotel we stayed in Kyzylorda was the small inn named Bereke. It is very much small but cozy and has a good atmosphere. The only problem we had is you cannot control the water in terms of its temperature and quantity and we always complained about it. But after coming back from Aralsk, especially from that hotel Aral Sea, you cannot complain anymore. You have a shower in your room at least!!
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