The Caspian ferry

This boat had some differences with the one in the black sea. The first clear thing is the organization. Its impossible to know when the boat goes. The second is the boat itself, the structure. The previous was clearly made for the purpose of carrying vehicles. This one, although it had some dangerous train lines that went in with the purpose  to carry full train wagons, it doesn’t  seem to have much space for cargo as the previous. The boat seems significantly bigger, although this might be by the only reason that in this boat we are free to walk around, when in the other we were trapped in one of the floors.It was possible even to go to the engine rooms. All the gates were opened, even vertical doors where someone couldirectlly fall the the underground level.

The ferry seems a ghost boat. I went up and down and doesn’t seems to be much people on it. On the crew deck there are several empty rooms, some of them seemed to be destroyed. I counted 5 people on board as a crew members. A small lady with blue eyes who distribute the rooms, do the laundry, organize the eating schedules and keep our passports. Three people at the kitchen. The cargo responsible. An a man that walks around that call himself the security inspector. He make us stop playing golf (using a gas pipe and a beer bottle tap), he proudly told us also that thanks to him the bar was closed,” too many accidents occurred because of drunk track drivers”. He is the fun killer inspector that is for sure.

For the rest, it seems to be more rooms,  2 or 3 decks with plenty of them, but at the same time seems to be much less people, less truck drivers. It seems that us (the bikers and motorbikes) count as a quarter of the population. And now again, the gangs do not mix. Azerbaijani with Azerbaijani, Kazakhstani with Kazakhstani, Russian with Russian and finally adventurer with adventurer.

The rooms are also significantly smaller and are not provided with toiled. As a fun fact, the toilet works as in a plane with negative pressure. And as a fun fact someone didn’t respect the rules and throw a piece of something into the toilet before leaving. So at 8 am the whole boat was soaked in shit.