Almaty, Kazakhstan Travel Blogs

Rencontres D'automne, The Feeling of Fall
Nov 19, 2007 (15 photos)

... 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 of ...

Back in Almaty
May 10, 2007 (5 photos)

... for kazakhstan.neweurasia.net.  So look for me on their Kazakhstan blog. I'm writing about the arts here in Almaty and wherever I go in Kazakhstan.   I have an exhibit coming up in August. I'll let you know more about this as it develops.  ...

One steppe closer
Sep 4, 2009 (3 photos)

... 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 ...

Zharkent-Almaty
Jun 11, 2009 (10 photos)

... Western meal! It's so nice here, we think we might stay a couple of days and stop to smell the roses. Friday. 12 Jun. Almaty. A perfectly lazy day and a big walk to sort out yet more documentation. i.e. Even though we have a Kazakh. Visa, we have to have ...

In the Apartment
Oct 8, 2007 (7 photos)

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 ...

Happy New Year!
Jan 1, 2007 (5 photos)

... Soros Center For Contemporary Arts. The show is about how artists should be critical of the government and the culture of Kazakhstan. Artists should be the plotter pen and paper on the Seismogram, bouncing and bobbing all over the place exposing the ...

Austrian helpfulness and German Hospitality
Nov 11, 2007 (14 photos)

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 ...

Artpologist.net
Jul 25, 2007

... partners Zhanara, Aminatou, and Gaisha.  Check us out on artpologist.net for all the latest news about my adventure in Kazakhstan.  Our new project is called The Transformation of Space in Almaty.  We're doing an art project about the ...

More Hats
Nov 25, 2007 (4 photos)

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 Lily ...

Baby Jesus Meets Zen Water Feature
Dec 16, 2007 (1 photos)

... . 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 place to go ...

Museum of Kazakh Instruments
Nov 22, 2007 (6 photos)

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
Aug 16, 2009 (8 photos)

... 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
Nov 7, 2007 (2 photos)

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
Jul 20, 2009

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 ...

Art openings
Jan 2, 2007 (5 photos)

I figure you guys can enjoyed the photos. Let me know if theirs anything you guys want me to take pictures of here in Kazakstan. Daniel.

It is beginning to look a lot like Christmas
Nov 9, 2007 (14 photos)

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. ...

House bound for a few days
Oct 28, 2007 (12 photos)

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 ...

Country 115 after LP China got confiscated
Apr 30, 2008 (19 photos)

... 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 ...

A few things to remember
Oct 23, 2007

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
Apr 8, 2007 (2 photos)

... 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
Jul 18, 2009

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
Dec 4, 2007 (3 photos)

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 ...

January Travel Blog
Jan 28, 2007 (1 photos)

... working. I was on a television show here in Almaty this week. It was a talk show about the art situation in Kazakhstan. There has a been a lot of debate recently about the subject of contemporary art here. Zhanara and I were invited with Valeria, ...

Art and Kazakhstan
Nov 6, 2006 (4 photos)

... interested in buying some work? I now have enough work and time available to offer my work that I'm doing here in Kazakhstan. I'm also looking for ideas about showing Kazakh art in America. Does anyone have any idea on places that are available to ...

School Days
Sep 16, 2009 (12 photos)

... 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
Dec 10, 2007 (4 photos)

... 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
Oct 4, 2007

... 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
Oct 16, 2008

... 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 - ...

Capital Kazak
Jun 28, 2009 (2 photos)

... of Pamela. Rick was gutted and so decided in sympathy to shave his beard and establish a Borat Tash. A great look me thinks! Almaty was a city full of beautiful women and a fantastic mountain back drop. Arriving in Almaty for me was great as it meant that ...

Bye Bye Borat Country
May 5, 2008 (87 photos)

... 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. Ich hoffe ...