Our first Russian breakfast at Hotel Bank!! Wierd pancakes with sour cream stuff, fried eggs, chips!

Leaving Volgograd and the roads go on forever and ever.

and ever and ever..

and ever...

A tributary of The Volga!

More tributaries

Here we go again with the roads that go on & on

See what I mean

The foothills of The Urals.

Our first vehicle with a Khazakstani licence plate !

Could be in the new forrest

Massive fields!

Car transporters they were very scary drivers.

Yet another town sign

Outside Ufa towards Camara we find this newly built hotel! Mmm

5 star luxury - loved it

And it has a lake - view from bedroom

View from window - lake, truckers and main road! Hotel was lovely though.

We start to cross the Volga

And we keep crossing

and crossing

and crossing

and crossing

Now you see why the others were tributaries

All told it takes over 5 minutes to drive across the river!

and we need to find somewhere to camp.

We find a field and pitch the tent

Finally found a place to stop got funny looks though

Our first camp!

Breakfast as it comes light! Again, photo is darker than the actual light at the time.