From Mubarak we reach Karchi by avoiding the main road. The route is quieter, but the road is often rough... or even bumpy ! The information on the state of the road seems not to have been given in the software, as it considers our route to be mostly tarmac, which is not really the case. Nevertheless, we went relatively fast, slowed down a bit on the bad roads and finally rejoined a good road for the last few kilometres to Karchi.

We arrived at the hotel’s GPS point at 13:30... but there had obviously been a mistake : nothing looked like the photos of the hotel ! After asking a few people, we finally found the hotel just over a kilometre from the indicated point !
To spice things up a bit, I died again during our search. In short, we arrived at the hotel at 2:30 p.m. but fortunately it was spotless !

At the end of the afternoon we went to visit the historic Karchi Bridge, one of the oldest bridges in Central Asia. There we met Farangiz, a young student who spoke English very well and with whom we walked to our hotel.