The participants in the "Caspian Sea of Friendship" motorbike rally, which started in Astrakhan, Russia, on April 1, arrived in Turkmenbashi, the Neutral Turkmenistan newspaper has reported.
The almost 5,000 km route is planned to be completed in eleven days.
Members of the Astrakhan Region bikers movement formed the core of the team. The convoy, led by the regional governor, Igor Babushkin, consists of seven motorbikes and two jeeps with trailers of marching support.
"At the Turkmen-Kazakh border crossing point, they were honored by representatives of customs, the consular service of Turkmenistan, and the administration of Garabogaz, the first Turkmen town on the motorcyclists' route".
From there, the motor rally participants traveled to the tourist resort of Awaza, where they "plunged into the emerald waves of the Turkmen coast of the Caspian Sea - the most environmentally clean, according to international recognition, part of the Caspian Sea."
According to the road map, through Ashgabat, they will pass through the roads of Iran's northwestern provinces.
Skirting the southern shore of the Caspian Sea, the motor rally participants will head for Astara and Baku (Azerbaijan) and then through Kaspiysk (Dagestan, Russia) to Astrakhan.
Babushkin wrote in his telegram channel that the unique international project, which is taking place along this route for the first time, aims to strengthen good neighborly relations with the Caspian countries.
"The Caspian region is becoming even more important in the current geopolitical situation".
Credits: Eziz Boyarov, Ashgabat
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