EXPLORING KAZAKHSTAN - This is WHY I'm Coming Back

This video is brought to you by Squarespace. Good morning again from Kazakhstan. We're just about to leave this hotel, it's in the shadows, where we stayed last night and head out for the last day of exploring here. I've been told we're first heading to the Caspian Sea, so I'm going to go see that, see the sea, and go for a swim. We're heading out in our 4x4s again, so I need to get in this one, which is mine, and get on the road. Look at all this dust from yesterday. After about a one hour journey through the desert in a convoy, which has been cool every day, we've now arrived at the Caspian Sea. I think we have a chance to swim here as well. This is so funny. It's clearly set up for a lot of people, but there's no one here whatsoever. It's a complete ghost town. I mean it is. It's a Thursday, and it's the middle of summer, so it's like 40 degrees right now, so maybe it'll get more busy another time. But yeah, it's completely empty. I mean even this thing, like it's got coking. The ice cream machine's on, so maybe we're just here too early. Yeah, it is only 10am, so maybe we're here too early. Maybe we'll get busier later. And for right now, we have the whole of this part of the Caspian Sea to ourselves. Okay, the only trouble for me is if I go in, I need to get out again pretty quickly, otherwise I'm going to come out very red. Wow, it's so still, and it's like, it's just a sandbar the whole way out. Okay, it's a nice temperature. Cheers. It's kind of eerie how still it is. You can't even really see the horizon. It goes into this sort of mist that's completely flat, no waves. Yeah, I'm glad I came in. Okay, I'm going to cut in right here because I need to tell you quickly about Squarespace. And I have my laptop right here, and I'm going to show you how far I'm getting along with this website. Squarespace with Jord. Right, so I've been building this site for a while now, but I've just decided that for some reason this theme doesn't really jump out to me as the right one, so I've decided to change it. And the good thing is it's so easy. Check it out. Okay, I'm liking the look of this one. It's very photo orientated, so I'm going to go for that. And that's how quickly it changes. Obviously, I need to change the images, which I'll go and do now, and then we can see how it stacks up in that amount of time. I've started to fill in little bits here and there, but this is another cool thing that is good for me. I can go to connected accounts and then start connecting all of my social media. This is how easy it is to add in a Instagram block. It's there. I can change it to carousel. But then you're thinking, like I was, that's way too big for this webpage. Like, that takes up even most of the page. So I thought, how do you change it? And this is cool. Just drag it down and there you go. Maybe that's about right. Okay, I'm still continuing with this website and I'm going to work on it for a while because it's part of the next big phase of what I want to do. With this channel and in general, with my travels. So it's not quite ready to show you yet, but I am going to show you soon enough. If you do want to get involved with Squarespace, then you can go to Squarespace for a free trial. Or you can also go to squarespace.com forward slash the life of George for 10% off any purchase of any website or domain. And for now, back to Kazakhstan. Next up, and we found a viewpoint over the sea. That was also really cool, driving along with the dust kicking up while driving along the coast. Just a very overall cool experience, which I don't know how well I can translate onto camera, but it was cool. So we're also just about to have our lunch here. For the last few days, we've just been pulling up to scenic spots and having a picnic next to the jeeps, which I've thoroughly enjoyed. I've just been told as well, this used to be an ancient port for ships like 100,000 years ago. And you can still find sort of fossilized versions of these ships that came across the Caspian sea down below in the bed of the sea. But the main thing that strikes me about here is just how blue it is. It's just really like, we just saw it a minute ago when I was swimming, like this really deep shade of blue and lots of different blues together, which I didn't really expect to see at all coming here, to be honest. It's more tropical and I had no idea that it would look like that. It's just so eerily still. There's no, besides us here, there's no sound whatsoever. You can't hear any waves. I didn't film it, but of course I had to get in and the temperature is so nice. It's like, it's so hot out here, but it's freezing cold in the sea. So I just didn't want to get out. Yeah, what a spot. How's that? Cold, right? So nice. Can I flick your hair for the slow-mo? Yeah, it's going to be cute. Okay. Oh, here we go. Okay, nice healthy lunch. Another cool spot for lunch and now we're just about to head back to Aktal. I think from where we are, it's a three hour drive across like the bumpy roads we've come in on. So I'm probably going to sleep, film a little bit and then see you there. Okay, we've made it back to civilization. I'm in the city of Aktal now, staying in this hotel and just about to grab a dinner before heading to the airport. It's all been a bit of a whirlwind three days. I don't know what it is, but it's fish and... Poe garden to finish. Tishpema. Tishpema, okay. Okay, that's what it is. Okay, we finished dinner and I'm on the way to the airport right now. So we are... Lost the light. Right, so I'm going to make it because it's running late already. But yeah, we're on the way to the... I'm on the way to the airport and flying soon. I'm just waiting for my flight now so it feels like a good time to finish it and just as I start there's an announcement. Just playing with me. Anyway, this last few days have been fantastic. It's great to get a little taste of Kazakhstan. I do have to fly back now. There it is. Okay, I do have to fly back for my friend's wedding right now which is why I'm leaving only after a few days. But I'd love to come back and see more of the country, get to the mountains, go to Almaty. And I know there's a lot more here to see because it is the ninth biggest country in the world and... God damn, okay. So before there's another announcement I'll just say again thank you for watching and see you in the next video. All right, it's 3 a.m. I'm about to sleep right here. Good night guys.