DATE: July 17th, 7:30 PM

LOCATION: Katun River near Chemal

As you can see the van made it to our location for the night. The standard late night banya put us to sleep.

Today we rafted. We went to some caves on the side of the river. They were inhabited in stone age times but today it is just us tourist that passed through.

This will be the last post. Feel free though to blog us one last time as we will be checking the emails tommorrow.

We miss you all and look fo

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