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Expedition van Gazelle 4x4 with compost toilet and wind turbine. GazelleCoolio, that’s the van where home meets expedition - currently exploring beauty of Russia and central Asia.This is speechless and relaxing video van t...

There is no modern shopping mall which offers such an amount of Life Energy, diversity of people, loudness, food and organized chaos like Asian markets! Scroll over the pictures and stop at the last one. Or maybe you don’t have to because the last one will stop you. Pictures taken at Dordoi Market - the biggest market in Central Asia. The last one is from Mars space station.



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Sometimes we are a bit tired of driving. But then we wake up and…, and, however don’t be in illusion that every single parking spot is worth picture. 😉 But, on the end, it’s still worth it. 🚗

🇰🇿 This is not a touristic promotional tour. This is real drive! We invite you to travel across Kazakhstan virtually via our 4K dashboard camera. We have done approximately 3500km across this huge country and in this video we cover the best of our dashboard video shoots showing different sceneries and some special moments. 🚗

Travel 3500km across Kazakhstan via Dashboard camera view. This is not a touristic promotional tour. This is real drive! We invite you to travel across Kazakhstan virtually via our 4K dashboard camera. We have done a...

This religion, that religion, this leader, this empire, that hero, this idea, that project, this war, that war, this civilization - that error!!!

So many failures and so much destruction. When I see ruins and abandoned buildings, I see r**e of nature. I see slavery of people. I see so much energy and effort being completely wasted. I see that people don't see further than own nose. We discovered thousands years old pyramids. What will people discover besides nuclear waste in a few thousand years? I don't think a lot... And who is benefiting from our civilization besides 1% of the richest? Or, does actually anyone still believe in the myth of progress???

Traveling is not only about beauty and nature!

Traveling is very complex experience available all around and in between that beauty. And all besides that, don't forget that traveling is privilege which vast majority of people in the world cannot afford because of financial situation or too bad passport. Are you privileged? So just skip that damn new iPhone this year and better see the world, while you still can... Because, nothing is forever, obviously...

Fairy Tale Valley is so special, that it even deserves a video!

Surreal Natural Wonder, Kyrgyzstan Fairy Tale Valley is well deserved name of canyon near Issyk Kul lake in Kyrgyzstan. Enjoy this video along great music from www.fesliyanstudios.com

This valley is something like a error in the natural Matrix. It's simply a bug in the code where nature freestyles in between shapes and colors. Fairytale Valley is a well-deserved name which guarantees that your mind will stop and you'll end up surrounded by a wonderland.

In post soviet Asian countries is almost no vandalism and statues of is no exception! In Kyrgyzstan is the biggest amount of his statues which we’ve seen. Possibly, even more than in Russia. Here, seems to be no interest in destroying history so post soviet monuments are not extremely rare. Lenin - man with big ideas which nobody knows but everyone thinks to know him. Well, we don’t know much either but what about curiosity instead of judgment? Of course, nobody from the capitalist west ever heard one single good thing about socialism. How could we? Forbidding to become a and obligated more equal share is not freedom. So who would dare to say a good thing about Lenin at the first place? Every single social revolutionary is automatically the evil anyway. Let’s better celebrate our heroes and leaders with big ideas and build some statues to , , or to one of those American democracy makers like or . Do you think they would deserve that? Reconsider it on your own but before we leave this post aside and start scrolling again, let’s dig out some quotes of Lenin. Because why not? Aren’t you curious what this dude had to say?

“As long as property remains in the hands of the capitalists, all democracy will be only a hypocritical cover for the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie. All talk of universal suffrage, of the will of the people, and of equality in elections, will be pure fraud." for there can be no equality between the exploiter and the exploited, between the owner of capital and property and the modern wage-slave." Lenin

"Monopolies, oligarchy, the striving for domination and not for freedom, the exploitation of an increasing number of small or weak nations by a handful of the richest or most powerful nations - all these have given birth to those distinctive characteristics of imperialism which compel us to define it as parasitic or decaying capitalism." Lenin

What else to say? Well, let’s just point out the similarities in between his quotes and the situation of the world today. Do you see it too?

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Another set of pictures from the edge of the . Driving along this lake feels almost at some places. Exactly what we didn't expected from one of the most countries in the world. Driving big distances is not always easy! But don't worry to drive to . lake is definitely gonna be your chilling reward.

For us, Issyk Kul became the N.1 lake which we ever visited! It's truly a treasure with crystal clear water surrounded by mountains all around.

What can be more exotic than sunbathing on a while looking at ?

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The world is full of myths and promotions. The tourist departments promote mountains. Vast majority of people comes to this country because of mountains. True, mountains are all around! It's absolutely wonderful landlocked country without access to the sea. What else to do besides hiking right? The landscape, vegetation and ground is slowly reshaping from flat and dry steppe into the edge of the Himalayas. Wonderful! So this is the first set of photos which we made. Salty water, waves, sandy beaches and Sun.

So what's the myth? That Kyrgyzstan is landlocked. Busted! 🌊🏖️🌞🟰🇰🇬

From middle of Europe to middle of Asia. That’s 11.000km made in the last 4,5months via Russia and Kazakhstan. What will be next? We don’t know.
But what we know is that sharing our journey via this page also takes time and energy and without any feedback - our inspiration and motivation starts to die. This page seems to be almost totally empty and we’re loosing taste for keeping it active. We are not asking you to love something what you don’t. We just want to explain that your comment, your reaction, sharing or follow is very very welcome. Maybe you believe that our photos and videos are just cyber garbage. Maybe you believe that our vans are just physical garbage. Maybe you don’t believe in anything what we write here. That’s fine. But if you do like what we do and say, then - your feedback is important for us to keep our motivation updated. 🍀😊 ~

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Visit Sharyn Canyon, Kazakhstan Visit Sharyn Canyon in Kazakhstan via video taken along hiking across the whole canyon.00:00 - Arriving Intro0:27 - Walking at the Bottom2:22 - Walking on To...

Visit in through our photos and video taken along hiking via the whole canyon at the bottom as well on top.

No, we don't like drones. We don't use drone and we don't want to have one. Drones are disturbing peace and privacy. Plus, they create delusional videos from birds perspective which you can almost never observe in real life. As always, my pictures/ video offers real perspective made by camera in hands. What you see is what you can observe on your own.

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Bektau-Ata - our visit of this natural wonder brought by another video.

Bektau-Ata rocky peaks, beautiful surprise of Kazakh steppe. Roadtrip in Kazakhstan brought another nice surprise to us - rocky hills Bektau-Ata.0:00 - Driving0:54 - Bektau-Ata3:40 - Good ByeMusic track: Viajes by tube...

Kazakhstan is Huge, Flat, Dusty and Hot but can be also Surprising and Impressive just like Bektau-Ata peaks. We never stay in campings, but campsite which lays in the middle of these impressive rocky mountains was the best possible exception!

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This is sunset.
This is one moment.
This is the end of today.
The opportunity to dream,
and the chance to start tomorrow again.

Repeat the good moves,
And try to fix the wrong turns,
Learn, forgive and enjoy the ride,
this is your Life, this is your way.

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I remember when I was a child in elementary school having classes of geography about different environments. It’s interesting that I specifically remember the word steppe and the description which the teacher gave us - “big grass fields, mainly flat”. Geography was always my favorite because it brought my fantasy far and the class often ended up with my big curiosity and the question - How it really is there? But even my young childish imagination was never powerful enough in bringing me that far.

You can read thousands of books, see thousands of videos or pictures, but nothing will ever exchange the real life experience! Those stuff are only meant to educate you, motivate you and encourage you for doing the real thing, not to exchange or erase your natural curiosity.

I’m very grateful to finally discover the steppe this summer and I have learned much more than it’s possible by reading any book or watching any documentary. Traveling two months across the Kazakh steppe left me speechless many times when I was surrounded by flat land covered in a dry grass as far as I could see. Steppe is a magical environment leaving within me enormous appreciation of something, what I used to consider as normal. It’s not like I wasn’t appreciative before, it’s like steppe woken up much deeper level of appreciation in me. Yes, trees and “casual” things like hills, flowers or green grass will never be casual anymore. Plus, I will never complain again that it’s too hot if it’s only +35C.

Theory is one thing but without practice it’s still just a theory. It’s like reading a cookbook and at the same time believe that you know how to cook. That’s not true. You must cook in order to learn know how to cook. The same applies for knowing the world. In order to know it, you must explore it, not only read about it or look at it via screen.

I didn’t know how steppe truly feels until I really was there. And I didn’t know how much I love forests and shadow of a tree during summer until steppe took that away from me.

Explore the world and you gonna discover yourself.

Thank you steppe for showing me the true beauty of trees.

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Time traveling in Kazakhstan with 🚗 . Now in the year 2050 plus, protected by lion!

Just some pile of rocks with eagle on top and some camel in the background in the middle of steppe. Nothing of those objects at this picture in real is more important than the cloudy weather. Trust me, if you travel across Kazakhstan in summer, all you want is cloudy weather.

This is the absolutely hottest summer we have ever experienced in our lifes! It can be described million times by words, but none of those words can ever bring you close to the real experience. This heat is simply unprecedented. In steppe, you got almost no shadow and if you find the brave tree growing there, you gonna find out that the shadow is out of order. It simply doesn’t work how it should. Everything is overheated right from early morning till late night and sometimes it doesn’t cool down in night at all. Even the breeze is hot. Staying in a the van during day is basically impossible. We have experienced this kind of days in the last 3500km almost every day (bless those exceptions) and somedays we ended up literally sick 🤢😨 Overheated stomach doesn’t work well 🥴 We don’t carry thermometer with us but I bet that in the most extreme days it reached +50c!

The best out of this is to observe Kazakh local people. It seems like the heat is absolutely no issue for them. While we are knocked down during day unable to do much besides doing our best to cool down by soaking in a lake or in a river, they go for walk, hike, bike ride or keep working outside like it’s not hot like in hell. This has been interesting observation for us. There is certainly adaptation developing in the early age. They are used to this extremes because they grew up here and live here all life. They obviously can handle it quite easy.

The extreme weather is kind of unknown factor about Kazakhstan. So if you wanna travel here comfortably you got just few months in a year to choose from. Either spring or autumn. Otherwise you gonna sweat in +40s of freeze in -30s

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No hotels, no parking lots, no souvenir shops, no restaurants, no artificial attractions, simply - no pollution. Only virgin natural wonder hidden in Kazakh steppe.

Amount of tourists today? Wendy & Oto 😊

Overlanding Kazakhstan, discovering hidden treasure of steppe. Simply in a middle of Kazakh steppe. Simply Salt Lake. Simply Natural Wonder with great music from www.fesliyanstudios.com

Russia in moving pictures.

RoadTrip in Russia This video is capturing our road trip from Latvia to Kazakhstan with only one month visa! In other words, far not enough time to explore this beautiful and h...

🚗 was Wandering in Russia with visa entry for one month only! In other words, too short time to explore the biggest country in the world. But no regrets! It only boosted our motivation to visit again and explore Russia further east. Our road trip was coming from Latvia to Kazakhstan.

The green looks really cool. I admit! So what? The green one can go fast but the social laws doesn't allow the driver to use full potential of the engine's power anyway. It also requires perfect asphalt and besides transportation it offers basically nothing in return. It only represents. The green one represents financial success in the business world. But beyond it, it also represents simply too much money which is directly linked into social inequality. It represents strongly rooted materialistic values which are destroying our planet and disconnecting us from nature. It represents wealth which takes the owner far from the adventure of reality into a dimension, where quality of life is judged based on and wallets.

The red van doesn't only represent kind of opposite, it also offers much more. The red one offers all life basics like bed, place to cook, shower, toilet, some storage place... it offers alternative, it offers and it offers much more on broken roads or even . It also represents more independence and without many unnecessary possessions. It represents curiosity and . It represents skills instead of money. And it is much cheaper compared to the

Don't judge the book based on cover, and read beyond the pictures.
I choose the and would never change it for the Lamborghini.
And what about you?

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Wood Stove & Compost Toilet

Old and renovated 🚗 essentials.

Day or Night, Young or Old, Smile or Tears… - The only thing which will never change, is the fact that everything always changes.

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Everyone deserves the . But let’s make this clear. There are not baked chickens falling into your open mouth! There must be your focus, goal oriented mindset, trust in your path and perhaps, a bit of “luck” too.
And here it’s our turn - finally, after seriously hard work, patience and long preparation we have hit the roads with our new 4x4 🚗

Life is very complex and that’s how I like to keep on Instagram as well.
I ❤️ photography and occasional writing. Mainly pictures of sceneries and nature in general but, 😉 Even though I’m not strictly focused on one topic, what will come this time mainly are photos from our coming expedition to Asia - first stop, 🇷🇺

Besides that, our page is focused purely on content. So if you’re specifically interested in that, don’t hesitate and click follow. Don’t worry, we’re not internet addicts so we’re definitely not going to spam you with new posts every single day.

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Some people are , some people are , doesn’t matter what, is what counts.

…however, all besides that this seems to be a bit lazy. We predict to catch stronger wind along cliffs at some coastline. Or perhaps, on top of a mountain? However, we’re not going to chase storms just because of that! Time will show how useful the wind power will be and, we don’t worry about energy anyway. Solar battery is being charged with engine while driving and 300w solar panels gives enough power even during cloudy days for the modest household hidden inside of this

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… so I asked her to make a pose for photos of her with the van. She said, “Fine, pass me the key I will park it”.

Well, what can I say? Nice posture darling! 📷🤩

I’ve made already around 1000 kilometers walking few meters up and down from workshop to the van. Building a camper without a garage can be tough! The van has been done partly also in a damn old shack and every time I entry, my first job is to look up and check if the roof will not fall on my head. So there’s a lot of extra work for me. But yeah, so I just keep going. Because we simply cannot have everything in this life! We must also sacrifice sometimes. I wanna have good time with family and friends. I wanna have beautiful van where I can feel like in home, I wanna have enough money and leisure time to travel the world. I wanna have great equipment and place to build the van comfortably. Well, I think I want simply too much! So let’s skip the comfort for now and continue by working outside getting dusty in the shack! Hopefully, one day I’m gonna have a better workshop. And if I don’t manage in this life, I’m anyway glad that I had the opportunity to work in the shack.

90% done! Are you curious what can be done with hands and some old equipment? Pictures coming (kind of) soon.



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