Thursday July 1st

Back to Aral for supplies...at the well a local lady gives us one of her water bottles and warns us that in the next few days there is going to be a heatwave of 70 plus ----decide to head up to Astana the capital in the north but will probably take us at least 3 days.......it is so hot that fresh bread is crispy before you can finish making a sanwich, and if you put a bottle of water in the front of the landy for a while it is hot enough to make a cup of tea, and the metal parts in the car burn to the touch, there is no shade anywhere, we haven't seen a tree for ages....this is good training for the Gobi !!!!