{"id":1397,"date":"2018-06-27T04:29:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-27T04:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.justamotoride.com\/?p=1397"},"modified":"2019-02-10T11:08:50","modified_gmt":"2019-02-10T11:08:50","slug":"riding-the-bam-road-day-4-chara-to-kuanda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justamotoride.com\/?p=1397","title":{"rendered":"Riding the BAM Road – Day 4: Chara to Kuanda"},"content":{"rendered":"

We got up early the next day, only to get a call from our Kamaz-driver in Kuanda who was supposed to drive the bikes over the river on the back of his truck. \u201cRiver is too high, you have to wait a couple of days until the water level drops\u201d. The Kuanda river is always too deep to ride through, there is no road bridge anymore and the guards usually don\u2019t let you ride over the railway bridge anymore.<\/p>\n

So we had some breakfast, went back to bed and set our minds on a couple of days waiting around.<\/p>\n

Not even half an hour later we got a call from a friend we made in Chara (while looking for a garage for the bikes). \u201cYou can cross Kuanda river today, you need to leave right now and be there in 5-6 h, you are going to meet my friend\u201d. This is all the information we got at this point. Strange how things work out in Russia. You just have to go with the flow and stuff sort of happens without having an idea on what exactly is going on.<\/p>\n

Looking at the map Kuanda river was about 150 kilometers away, which is at least 5-6 hours of riding, if not double on some parts of the BAM. We didn\u2019t know if we will make it or how\/if we will cross the river once we get there. We packed up as fast as possible to not use up valuable riding time. About 20 minutes later we were ready for ride off. The first 50 km or so was fast riding on easy gravel roads. After that the road got worse and we hit the first couple of deep water crossings which slowed us down considerably. Seems like the rain over the last days had not helped the water levels.<\/p>\n