The Truth Behind Taking a Sleeper Train in KAZAKHSTAN!

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Hello and welcome to Kazakhstan for the first time, where we'll be checking out one of their famous sleeper trains!
This journey will see us travel from Aralsk, at the famous Aral Sea, up to Aktobe on the border with Russia. We'll be in a Second Class Kupe compartment for this overnight trip, so let's go and check it out together!
Date of Filming: 30 to 31/8/23
Camera: GoPro Hero 10 Black
Operator: Kazakhstan Railways
Departure: Aralsk, Kazakhstan
Arrival: Aktobe, Kazakhstan
Cost: 1 bed in 4-bed Kupe compartment:
5,979 Kazakh Tenge (£10.29, €11.92, $13.00)
All 4 beds : 23,916 Kazakh Tenge (£41.14, €47.68, $52.01)
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[@NonstopEurotrip]

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[@470danadidas]

The demise of the Aral sea is one of the worst man made environmental disasters the world has ever seen. The Soviets diverted the two rivers feeding it to irrigate cotton fields and it slowly dried up. However I think plans are in place to revive it. It has been dammed on the northern Kaszakh side and consequently that part is refilling with wildlife slowly returning. There's hope. Good video. 😊

[@cestmoi1262]

The Aral Sea disaster may very well be overshadowed by the developing "Net Zero" disaster. Both cases remind me of the story about pulling a cowboy out of the cactus and when asked why did you do it? his reply was: "it seemed a good idea at the time".

[@user-oz7bj9ry5v]

Советов нет уже более 30 лет!!!Что мешало восстановить как было? Алчность,жадность,воровство?А может не надо дырки в Земле бурить где попало? Природа не терпит пустоты!

[@NonstopEurotrip]

Fingers crossed 🤞🏻

[@stanislavkostarnov2157]

is not the only sea (or large lake) that dried up due to human interference... not even the worst in terms of ecological damage... there was a huge lake known as The Blake-sea in California which effectively had a very similar story, only I believe in that case in a century or so, it dried up all but totally, leaving under 80 hectares of it's once over 2000 square Kilometer size... Salton sea was the last attempt to deepen and restore a part of it, but, that resulting in it's final demise to the current state of non-existence.

[@cestmoi1262]

@@stanislavkostarnov2157 Don't quite understand how you can equate a 2,888 sqkm lake to a 68,000 sqkm lake as to equal or even worse ecological damage. I read that thre Blake lake area was changed to agricultural use while it seems to me that the Aral Sea area is more like a desert.

[@SeverityOne]

Any video immediately improves when there's a cat in it.

[@NonstopEurotrip]

Oh I absolutely agree 💯☺️

[@risgilz13]

Man with melon is definitely my type of humor 😂

[@NonstopEurotrip]

😇😇😇

[@reaperx2657]

I love station cats. 😻 Great video!

[@NonstopEurotrip]

Me too!!

[@thomas-xj1hs]

Polish trains soon...one hopes and a Q & A session

[@NonstopEurotrip]

Soon 😜

[@spark_6710]

I'd love to watch more Polish trains ,too ,or anything to do with Poland !! 🇵🇱 Poland is fascinating to me !! 👍👍💜🥁🐉🎤🎶🇵🇱💞

[@theobrattinga500]

Great video !!

[@interceptor7905]

Great success!

[@hassaanjavaid9241]

Very informative and interesting video.

[@NonstopEurotrip]

Glad you think so!

[@rezaalan3991]

Great trip. It sad to see Aral Sea in current time, and I don't know can this water body recovered again like normally? Overall great room for overnight trip.

[@NonstopEurotrip]

I hope it can, I believe projects are in place!

[@vaughnwilliams1208]

How did you get to Aralsk from Sofia? Amazing. Former fishing villages on Aral sea, oh shocking. Man with Melon 😂 and Igor the cat. The videos are becoming even better, funny and entertaining 👌

[@jgsburnett9532]

Yes, I really like that he puts effort into showing a little of the country and some human touches. These are becoming some of the best railway videos on the net.

[@NonstopEurotrip]

Thanks so much, I really means a lot!

[@NonstopEurotrip]

You're so welcome 😁

[@user-fu9bv4ss2p]

Price of admission : "Igor, the station cat" & " Man with watermelon." "Boy With Apple," the painting in Wes Anderson's "The Grand Budapehst Hotel." Thank you for these flourishes & glosses.

[@NonstopEurotrip]

You're welcome 🤗

[@RAILEXCELLENCE2011]

Nice video!😊

[@NonstopEurotrip]

Thank you 🙏🏻😊

[@michaelhall8586]

Cute cat

[@NonstopEurotrip]

Meoooww

[@spark_6710]

​@@NonstopEurotripLOL 😆

[@ssiddarth]

Great video (as always) 👌 and the “in exchange for a small donation” line is definitely something that I'll be using from now on whenever necessary to describe activities/dealings of “the” kind 😛 Take care man and thanks for the amazing content 💖

[@NonstopEurotrip]

Glad you're enjoying it ☺️

[@rksreepansh]

Love from INDIA ❤️🇮🇳

[@NonstopEurotrip]

😍😍😍

[@spark_6710]

Hello India ! 🇮🇳 🙋‍♀️💜🥁🐉🎤🎶💞

[@AndrewG1989]

Awesome journey especially at night when the sun goes down. Beautiful country.

[@NonstopEurotrip]

Couldn't agree more! 👍🏻

[@pnwlion9337]

Really nice job, as comfortable as I am on my couch, I would love to be there

[@NonstopEurotrip]

Thank you very much!

[@spark_6710]

I'm watching this for the 2nd time ! 💜

[@pedrorubiotejero_aka_prt]

2:54 *The cat may or may not be called Igor* The cat also could be called Vladimir, Victor or Boris, for example. You know, Slav names are way different from Latin European or Germanic names, like Peter, John or Andreas

[@NonstopEurotrip]

Or Pedro 🙂

[@pedrorubiotejero_aka_prt]

@@NonstopEurotrip Or Peter, which is Pedro in English

[@timweather3847]

I haven’t traveled by train in Kazakhstan but flew into Atyrau once. This involved flying to Almaty, then getting a flight of three and a quarter hours back along the route I had just covered (with a Mr Bean movie being shown all the way) to Atyrau. It is a very big country.

[@NonstopEurotrip]

Absolutely massive. Indidna 63 hour train trip too lol

[@spark_6710]

It's got many luggage compartments, I find 'em very useful !! 👌 👍

[@NonstopEurotrip]

Yes they are!

[@spark_6710]

@NonstopEurotrip That makes a huge difference on traveling !! Thank you so much for the wonderful video & all of your replies !! I really wanna visit there someday ,hopefully in the near future !! I've watched many videos of Kazakhstan last year & earlier this year on KZbin. I've met a beautiful mid age couple from Kazakhstan in L.A.several years ago ! And the husband was very friendly & handsome & his wife was unbelievably beautiful 😍. He showed a map of the location of Kazakhstan on his phone & explained to me !! My mom was there & she told him she knew of Kazakhstan 🇰🇿, I didn't !! Lol. I almost flaunted on my geography class anyway at jr.high & high school !! Lollol 😅👍👍💜🥁🐉🎤🎶🇰🇿💕💞

[@spark_6710]

I'm glad to know you slept very well on the train !! 👍

[@NonstopEurotrip]

😴😴😴

[@spark_6710]

@@NonstopEurotrip Very good 👍 Lol. It's important. You don't wanna start out your day feeling groggy & grumpy. Lol 💜

[@NonstopEurotrip]

@@spark_6710 definitely not!

[@spark_6710]

@@NonstopEurotrip Haha. 😄😁

[@martinc.720]

Access ramp to enter the station from the street, but then two steps to access the platform, and a low platform with steps to climb aboard. I'll take it as a sign that they are trying to make things better? I know it is a slow and costly process, but they'll get there! :)

[@NonstopEurotrip]

Definitely trying 🙂

[@wongsakornthongseubsai5308]

Thanks you Please, make video train across Kazakhstan - Russia

[@NonstopEurotrip]

Definitely not

[@spark_6710]

​@@NonstopEurotripOh...lol.why ,why not ? 💜🥁🐉🎤🎶💞

[@NonstopEurotrip]

@@spark_6710 RuZZia 😖

[@spark_6710]

@NonstopEurotrip Yea,ok.I was wondering of that ...if the military stuff stops you from doing that request / suggestion . I get it !! But,too bad ...because Russians are very talented people & I really admire their honesty & being very disciplined & well focused determination & I love their music ,language & figure skaters & ballet !!! One day ,I'd love to travel there ...safe places !! Lol 💜 🥁🐉🎤🎶💞

[@wongsakornthongseubsai5308]

@@NonstopEurotrip thank for and I respect you.

[@Abnerbandanovotempoinscrito1mi]

Boa viagem lindo trem leito cama Cazaquistão 12:54

[@muhammadfadhiil5992]

love the cat:3

[@NonstopEurotrip]

Same 🐈

[@didararakhymzhanova9543]

Great stuff! How did you manage with station names translation into Kaz or Rus etc? Anyway if you need any help with it feel free to ask :) looking forward for the next one within Kazakhstan edition

[@NonstopEurotrip]

Superalbs can read cyrllic

[@didararakhymzhanova9543]

@@NonstopEurotrip interesting :)

[@tally1604]

​@NonstopEurotrip are you and superalbs boyfriends? Not that there is anything wrong with that :)

[@didararakhymzhanova9543]

@@tally1604 это тут причем?

[@spark_6710]

Aral sea disaster is ...something got me speechless to see !! Truly devastating & upsetting & sad !!! 😔 💔🙏

[@whitesinjonlovealso7138]

😊😊

[@NonstopEurotrip]

👍🏻😀

[@Zuuu40]

Can you please review the new nightjet train?

[@NonstopEurotrip]

Just uploaded it 😉

[@Zuuu40]

@@NonstopEurotrip can't wait to watch it

[@spark_6710]

That's nice that they provided a mattress pad ! 👍But ,over all ,sorry to say that everything looks a bit dirty ! And black stuff all over the wall worries me if they're molds !? I'll need to do a lot of cleaning there if I'll ride that train !! Lol 💜🥁🐉🎤🎶🇰🇿💞

[@NonstopEurotrip]

Yes, it's not new, but it's far from the worst I've experienced! 😎😎😎

[@spark_6710]

@NonstopEurotrip Oh. I KNOW ! LOL Definitely not that that bad ,or the worst !! 👍😆

[@kessas.489]

2:58 Hi! 😻

[@NonstopEurotrip]

Meowwww ✌🏻

[@altexter]

I saw a dining car on 4:11

[@NonstopEurotrip]

Did you? 🙃

[@altexter]

@@NonstopEurotrip That one with the "МЕЙРАМХАНА" above windows

[@spark_6710]

OMG OMG 😲 You're right !! A looo oo oong train !!! The longest I've ever seen ,too~!! The heck !! LOL Why ,though !? You know ,some Russians ,some Kazakhstani ,Mexicans look like my own people Japanese a lot !! Those pretty girls on train looked so much like Japanese girls !! 😮💕👍👍💜🥁🐉🎤🎶🇰🇿💞

[@NonstopEurotrip]

So many people 🥰🥰🥰

[@spark_6710]

@NonstopEurotrip I was thinking ,that must had been the only reason for that train to be that long !! Lol Thank you so much for your replies !! 👍 😅💜🥁🐉🎤🎶💞

[@shibukumart5260]

❤️ from Kerala, India.

[@NonstopEurotrip]

😍😍😍

[@user-oz7bj9ry5v]

Про безбилетников не рассказали,когда по 8 человек в купе едет.😂😂😂

[@NonstopEurotrip]

🤣🤣🤣

[@spark_6710]

LOL 😅😂👍💜🥁🐉🎤🎶🇰🇿💞

[@rksreepansh]

@5:52 It's 8:48 PM and still daylight??? Isn't it night time??🤔

[@NonstopEurotrip]

Nope, not in the summer

[@spark_6710]

It said this was filmed on 8/ 31 ? I can be wrong ,but I thought it said so on the description under the title . 💜🥁🐉🎤🎶💞

[@rapemap]

That Igor isn't what I have in my mind

[@spark_6710]

I'd like to visit Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 someday ! There are many beautiful places & unbelievable sceneries ,picturesque spots !! I'd love to.But,some say it's dangerous for female travelers .But ,there are some solo female travelers videos in Kazakhstan on KZbin. Pretty cat yarned ! So cute !! 😍 I love that train statio building architecture & colours !! 😀 👍👍💜🥁🐉🎤🎶💕🇰🇿💞

[@NonstopEurotrip]

You definitely should, I fell in love it Kazakhstan 🇰🇿

[@spark_6710]

@NonstopEurotrip Oh ,so cool !! K. I will !!! LOL Have you ever felt any danger there ,though ? Or heard of any rape case ? I've read some bad ones ,that got me thinking twice of visiting there ! But,it is gorgeous 😍 there !! Thank you so much for your replies as always appreciated. 👍👍💜🥁🐉🎤🎶🇰🇿💕💞

[@NonstopEurotrip]

@@spark_6710 much safer than London or Paris!

[@spark_6710]

@NonstopEurotrip REALLY !!!?? WOW ! HOW COOL !! BRILLIANT 👏 LOL.Sorry for London& Paris ,not to mention here LOS ANGELES, the worst ,I bet !! Lol. But,that's really good to know !! I try not to believe the media easily !! Even Google often has false info,although I love googling & Google map 😀 😄 YAY !! So glad that I asked you !! Thank you so much for the answer !! Now,they're back in my bucket list !!! Because of you !! Thanks !! 👍👍👍💜🥁🐉🎤🎶💞

[@sirdrzamich]

Really decent. And this price…

[@user-rb9gn5ou7f]

Your neighbor: Am I a joke to you?

[@NonstopEurotrip]

We had a vodka later

[@benmoorhouse88]

👨🤝🍈

[@samtrak1204]

The toilet was so awful I had to fast forward.

[@NonstopEurotrip]

😬😬😬

[@stanislavkostarnov2157]

pretty sure that cat is called Murka...

[@NonstopEurotrip]

Nope

[@stanislavkostarnov2157]

@@NonstopEurotrip aren't all random nameless cats called some form of that in the former USSR? he or she is really lovely whatever the name is!

[@spark_6710]

​@@stanislavkostarnov2157Yes,very lovely cat !! I agree ! 👍 💜🥁🐉🎤🎶🐈‍⬛🐈💕💞

[@Nadia1989]

Before cat: 4/10, meh After cat: 10/10 excellent, Wien Hbf could never.

[@NonstopEurotrip]

Thanks 🙏🏻 🐈

[@stanislavkostarnov2157]

very good video, nice mood & scenery but no like, I decided never to like any videos that have "accelerated footage" however good that video is, since I absolutely hate that effect...

[@NonstopEurotrip]

I rarely use it but felt I needed to on this occasion

[@stanislavkostarnov2157]

@@NonstopEurotrip obviously I have a bias on this... but what was the point? especially with the entry into the station, it was a beautiful window-views section that could well be covered by conversation... I mean, as the end of the journey, it is a perfect time to ask people to like & subscribe... I can barely see why you would do it on the trains entry... and maybe that even would have not annoyed me that much... but the station entry is a preciouses feeling of entering the new city, why would you want to smudge that?!!!

[@swisstrash]

Why does it border russia

[@NonstopEurotrip]

Cos geography

[@wonkagaming8750]

Next indonesian video?

[@NonstopEurotrip]

Soon 😜

[@evabalga6133]

Clean??? You must be kidding. Toilet was disgusting.

[@NonstopEurotrip]

🙃🙂

[@spark_6710]

I have to agree with you that it wasn't clean by my standard ,either ,but I won't call it disgusting. I've seen lots of worse ones overseas in my life & here in the U.S.,but many in Wales sadly ,I mean real old beaten dirty toilets ,smelly ones !! Lol. I'll use this one with hesitation for sure !! Lol. And what was that bucket with brown water doing there ? What was that for !? Was tge ceiling leaking or something !!?? Yikes ! 😅💜🥁🐉🎤🎶💞

[@spark_6710]

I didn't know they have squat toilets over there like Asians do !! LOL 😅

[@NonstopEurotrip]

It is Asia 🙃

[@spark_6710]

@NonstopEurotrip Oh...right ! I got an old habit to think they are Eastern European countries !! That's how we were taught at schools . Not Asia really. I think .lol.Back in 70's / 80's .👍😅💜🥁🐉🎤🎶💞

[@NonstopEurotrip]

@@spark_6710 ex-Soviet but central Asia 👍🏻

[@spark_6710]

@NonstopEurotrip Oh...lol.OK.So,not central or Eastern European country at all !!? There are so many ways to call many regions differently. Some insist they are European, some say African ...etc.I get confused easily nowadays !! Lol. Thank you for educating me !! I really thought they were an ex Soviet & Eastern European country. 😅

[@hassaanjavaid9241]

No dining car. No wifi. It's really unbelievable. Even in un develop countries these facilities are available. Anyways you enjoy your trip. It's good to hear that

[@cestmoi1262]

Traveling as a visitor you either sleep while it is dark or during the daytime stare at a small smart phone screen. Why do you travel? You see damn little of the world. Make these "Net Zero" blokes happy and stay home.

[@NonstopEurotrip]

Most do have dining cars tbh

[@marcd6897]

@@cestmoi1262why so angry my little friend? Some “net zero” chaps did something to you? Or are you just a male Karen?

[@cestmoi1262]

@@marcd6897 Who is angry, I'm having fun. and btw: I don't give a hoot about net zero one way or the other.

[@adnanvictor1601]

❤️