Country Info
- Astana
- Capital
- Tenge (KZT)
- Currency
- 16,731,303
- Population
- KZ
- Country Code
Almaty Slideshow
Top Hotels in Almaty
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Intercontinental Almaty
67 reviews -
Hyatt Regency Almaty
39 reviews -
InterContinental Almaty Hotel
67 reviews
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Holiday Inn Almaty
59 reviews
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Otrar Hotel Almaty
8 reviews -
Hotel Eurasia Almaty
7 reviews
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Best Eastern Astana Intl Hotel Almaty
13 reviews
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Hotel Kazzhol Almaty
30 reviews
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Best Eastern Dostyk Hotel Almaty
14 reviews
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Park Inn Almaty Airport
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Hotel Kazakhstan Almaty
26 reviews
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Almaty-Sapar Regency
5 reviews
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Premier Alatau Hotel Almaty
6 reviews
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Grand Hotel Aiser Almaty
5 reviews
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Ambassador Almaty Hotel
15 reviews
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The Dostyk Residence Almaty
10 reviews
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Best Eastern Almaty Hotel
1 review
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Hotel Uyut Almaty
9 reviews
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Tay House Hotel Almaty
3 reviews
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Hotel Tien-Shan Almaty
6 reviews
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Hotel Zhetysu Almaty
4 reviews
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Grand Hotel Tien-Shan Almaty
13 reviews -
Alma-ata Almaty
10 reviews
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Almaty JW Marriott Hotel
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Hotel Golden Hills Almaty
1 review
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Turkestan Hotel Almaty
4 reviews
Almaty
Travel Blogs from Almaty, Kazakhstan
Rencontres D'automne, The Feeling of Fall
This is a top pick! ... was a good deal, and invited me to a French Embassy-sponsored Rencontres D'automne festival, performed by the Almaty Symphony Orchestra. The performance included Tyz Kouou, whose eponymous score musically portrayed the horseback game ...
Vuoria nakyvissa
Aletaan saataa lupia ja viisumeita Tadzhikistaniin... Almaty on kaunis kaupunki ja on todella virkistavaa nahdapuita ja kukkia seka lumihuippuisia vuoria aavikkoseikkailuiden jalkeen. Blogspot skulaa taas! eli paivityksia saattaa ilmestya myos: ...
One steppe closer
... they are not wrong. It is essentially someone's apartment, that someone being So Young, a Korean who is working here in Kazakhstan. Incredibly hospitable, and helpful, who just wants you to feel at home. That is all from me for now, as otherwise any ...
Look out, look out. There's a copper about!
... hit the border at about 10 o'clock after nogotiating a funky floating toll bridge and yet more phantom signboards. The queue at the Russia/Kazakhstan border was huge and, joining the que a the back, we were just about resolved to start a fire. kill a ...
In the Apartment
Still having trouble finding easy Internet access. Our move into the apartment yesterday went well and we are in the process of buying the extra things to keep us comfortable for the next three months. There is a shopping mall just up the road and the ...
Austrian helpfulness and German Hospitality
Yesterday it was still snowy and cold. After playing in the snow some more the kids decided to stay home and Daniel went out and got some children video games. However, we had a bit of a disaster. Lily's 2nd horse riding game worked well, even with ...
More Hats
We went back to the place where Daniel found his hat, intending to get a hat for Tory. Well, Tory got her hat, similair to Daniel's, but with a black/white speckled fur. Heath and Lily spotted the kids hats in the story and so they got one each. Then ...
Back on the road (with a vengeance)
I am away early this morning. The day is a series of 2, 3, 4, 5 and 7 mile straights. I've lost the wheat fields and it is now dry grassland. There are hills on the horizon for a while and the we return to grassland at Lake Balkhash, where dried fish is ...
Baby Jesus Meets Zen Water Feature
... delicious. After the lunch we stopped at the 4A cafe around the corner for coffee and cakes. Definitely the best Latte I've had in Almaty so far, and it was a 'gingerbread latte' to keep with the spirit of the season. The cafe is quite an amusing ...
Museum of Kazakh Instruments
We finally made it to the Museum of Kazkah Musical Instruments on Tuesday. The museum is housed in a beautiful old wooden building at the eastern end of Ascension Park. We had to pay 200 Tenge ($2) each to get in and walked through three rooms of ...
Out and About
... KISA (KIMEP International Students Association), a Kazakh who is interested in meeting international students, about language in Kazakhstan. KISA members volunteer their time and knowledge of the nation to help internationasl students acclamate to ...
Wardrobe Troubles
We have had a quiet few days after the zoo trip and are getting ready for our first organised excursion tomorrow. We have booked a day trip, including the Mosque and State Museum followed by a Hawk farm and the Medeau (Ice Skating Rink). Hopefully some ...
DHL can stick it where the sun don't shine
Today's been a bit of a faff, we woke up a little later than intended and I headed into town get some passport photos. An hour and a bit later I returned and we set off to find internet, change money, find a map and send a parcel. My god it took a while ...
It is beginning to look a lot like Christmas
Well today we were woken by a small shout from a young lad who contiues to wake up early every morning. The cries of Mama, Dad its snowing were met with derision from bth parents but especially me as I turned over to return to the land of sleep. ...
Country 115 after LP China got confiscated
... Tian Shan Berge, dort liegen die teuren Wohngegenden, je weiter im Norden, destso billiger und aermlicher wird es. Almaty wirkt ein wenig wie tuerkisches Russland oder russische Tuerkei, i.e. kyrillisch und Doener:-) (Zum Mittagessen hatte ich auch ...
House bound for a few days
Well, either the lack of sanitation, years past used-by date food in the shopping centre, foreign bacteria or all of the above have caught up with us. We were planning an expedition to a turkish shopping centre with an in-door ice-skating rink and ...
A few things to remember
Tomorrow is a public holiday in Kazakhstan, possibly Independance Day I think. Should be some parades and fireworks. We have had a little set-back, in that the arrangements we made for forwarding our mail seem to have failed. Many thanks to our ...
Greetings from glorious nation Kazakhstan
... free - much to the delight of the party people in the group! The closer we got to Almaty, the largest city and former capital of Kazakhstan, the more the country looked like central or eastern Europe rather than central Asia. Almaty itself could ...
Crazy Horses
Not a great deal to say about today, it was very much a driving day. We managed just over 600km on our way to Almaty. The only event of note was being pulled over for the obligatory fine which Dave managed to get the cop to downgrade from his ambitious ...
Fantastic News From Home
Well, the last two days have mostly been a recovery form our busy weekend. Tory has a meeting tonight and a few more this week. Everything has been somewhat overshadowed by the fact that our dog 'Sally', who was staying with Tory's parents and their two ...
School Days
... arena. But this is their goal. I am taking several fascinating classes at KIMEP: Foreign Policy of Kazakhstan, Development Studies, and Domestic and Foreign Policy of the Post-Communist World (focusing on the former Soviet Union). It is ...
More Snow
... with Anastasia and her sister. We had a great dinner and Lily and Heath asked lots of insightful questions about life in Kazakhstan, and also some others about Ninja Turtles and Spiderman. It's hard to beleive that we only have 3 weeks left here in ...
Landing in Almaty
... and the staff at the hotel where extremely friendly. We were sad to leave and a little apprehensive about coming to Kazakhstan. We boarded the flight to Almaty at about 4:30 Korea time, the 757 wasn't quite as nice as the 777 we flew from Sydney but ...
A nice unorganized update
... was free... c'est la vie. I've walked around the city, saw the main hotel during the Soviet era - called "Hotel Kazakhstan". I had dinner at the mall in Almaty, called MEGA, a fitting name. At my apartment, we had a bible study the first night I got here ...
Ylamakia ja alamakia
Sen siita saa, kun lahtee vuorille - jatkuvaa yla- ja alamakea. Kazakhstanin ja Kirgisian rajaa vartioiva Tian Shan -vuoristo laittoi sydamen pamppailemaan monellakin tapaa. Kaksi ensimmaista paivaa pelkkaa ylamakea. Hiki virtasi ja rinkka painoi, ...
Bye Bye Borat Country
... Folklore Show (nun ja, die meisten waren leider kazachische Popsaenger von KsdS (Kazachstan sucht den Superstar)). Das Wetter in Almaty war recht durchwachsen, an meinem ersten Tag hatte ich recht viel Regen, aber ich hatte auch einmal Sonnenschein. ...
Kok Tobe
Well today was a public holiday here in Kazakhstan, with Independence Day being on the Sunday a long weekend seems to have been given to most schools and other enterprises. After being kept awake till 4 in the morning by the fireworks that were going ...
Impressions
... is beautiful and green all the time, but it doesn’t rain so much as to be unpleasant. In other words, Almaty is the paradise of Kazakhstan. Now that I’ve been in Almaty for several days, I have to agree with my seat ...
Happy Holidays!
... ceremony. Kazakhstan is known as the country of tolerance. Many ethnicities and many religions claim a home in Kazakhstan. During Soviet times, Soviet leaders, particularly Stalin, exiled unwanted types of people – of particular ...