Chapter 20

Chapter 20

At last the train emitted a whistle indicating that it would resume the march. Ivo climbed to the wagon where he had already left his minimum luggage completed with some items purchased in the village. He had arrived the day before the city of Dostyk, on the border between China and Kazakhstan after an 18-hour trip on a rickety bus from the point where Bo had left him. Lian's brother was on the point of crying during the farewell of his traveling and adventures companion for ten days and as was the custom in his clan, he departed without looking back.

At the border post the Kazakh guards had looked at their European Union passport with obvious mistrust but finally let Ivo pass to take the train.