Country Info
- Astana
- Capital
- Tenge (KZT)
- Currency
- 16,731,303
- Population
- KZ
- Country Code
Kazakhstan Slideshow
Kazakhstan
Travel Blogs from Kazakhstan
Almaty, Kazakhstan.... Brrrrrrr
... to take me on to Paris, oo-la-la! The catch was that first we'd have to make a 24 hour stop in this place called Kazakhstan. They didn't look too thrilled about Kazakhstan. I knew I was going to be glad I had fur when I saw the mountains as we were ...
A little bit of background
... nbsp; On the most recent official Kazakh census, the Kazakh government reports over 100 different ethnicities living in Kazakhstan. Close relationships with regional neighbors are clearly important to cultivate and sustain in order to avoid domestic ...
Pancakes for Breakfast
It's day 7 in Almaty, this morning we had pancakes with maple syrup for breakfast. The bottle of maple syrup cost 1200Tenge ($12 AUS) and should last for a few months. There seems to be no fresh cows milk available, everything is UHT treated in ...
Guiness never tasted so overpriced
Almaty! Chris and I are learning the cyrillic alphabet on the fly so that we can read street signs while Damo drives. We negotiated a decent rate to stay in the University accommodation and then went to the Guinness Pub, a little ashamed, but very ...
The end of our Silk Road journey
... Lake. This was also our last day in China, and we went straight to the airport for the two hour flight to Almaty, Kazakhstan. During our time in Xinjiang Auonomous region, we have had no contact with the outside world. The government have blocked emails, ...
Uzbeks, Kazakhs and Kyrgyz all in one building.
... come and sit beside her on a padded floor cushion while I selected my dishes. I asked him what he thought of Uzbekistan compared to Kazakhstan and his answer was a grim smile. Now while I had been exploring and talking to Kyrgyz ladies (who have to be the ...
Conference Speach Over
Well yesterday I gave a presentation at a history conference for a Centre in Almaty. It was a fairly interesting experience as I had misuderstood that they would be contacting me just prior to my speach so after waiting for one hour in the freezing cold ...
Danse avec les woulfes
... a Tous, Me voila au terme du court periple kazakh, d'aplomb pour passer en Chine, vers de nouvelles aventures. Le Kazakhstan a ete plutot tranquille. De longs trajets en train qui me rappelaient ce voyage en Chine car les wagons sont strictement les ...
Capital Kazak
We arrived and were all on the look out for Borat but we heard he was naked wrestling with is producer in the states somewhere in search of Pamela. Rick was gutted and so decided in sympathy to shave his beard and establish a Borat Tash. A great look me ...
Why are you here?
Our ingenious plan of going to bed, drunk, 2 hours before we had to get up, had the unsurprising result of us sleeping through the alarm. After a frantic rush to the station, we missed the train by seconds. A local driver took us in his cab ...
Shallow Breaths Above the Clouds! (Everest Pics)
A few thoughts on my trip to Mt. Everest and my journey to the top of the world! So, I made it only as far as the first base camp......... But it was still really impressive to be standing at the base of the highest mountain in the world and at an ...
St Nicholas Cathedral
Today we ventured out to find the Cathedral that we had almost made it to yesterday. We were also hoping to get a better view of the mountains and Heath was keen on visiting 'Children's World'. We found St Nicholas Cathedral just behind the hardware ...
Christmas Preparations
... out. The organisers have promised to send a taxi, but aren't contactable by phone. It seems that the 5/6 mobile phone networks in Kazakhstan don't necessarily talk to each other. You need to know which network the other person is on to put in the special ...
Astana - North
Nous qui voulions un peu de fraicheur, nous sommes servis. Nous redécouvrons en l'espace d'une nuit l'existence des nuages, du vent, de la grisaille et des températures inférieures à 10°C. Contraste saisissant, et une bonne raison de choper la ...
Welcome to Kazakhstan PUNK!!!!!!!!!
... to Azerbaijan. From Azerbaijan we will continue overland to Turkey via Georgia and Armenia then onto Western Europe! "Although Kazakhstan a glorious country, it have a problem, too: economic, social, and Jew!" -Borat Your friend, doing ...
Bureaucra'stan
... . The hovel was filthy, but at least we could get a hot shower. Our time at the Embassy ate into our time in Kazakhstan and unfortunately, we didn't make it out of the city. Having had enough of the bureaucracy we decided not to try to register as well, ...
A quiet day
With a fair wind this is to be my last day in Astana. Armed with the camera I walk to the other side of the river to photograph some of the famous new structures in the new centre with its most amazing array of government and private buildings. My other ...
All day haul across the border to Almaty
Woke up and the ground around Lake Song Kol was frozen. We had a chilly breakfast and hit the road by 8am to get back to first Kochkor, then Bishkek and by 2:30pm I got in a shared taxi heading across the kazakh border into Almaty. By 7PM I had found a ...
Cracking the bureaucracy
This is a top pick! ... and Warren, from the States (although she is originally from South Africa!!!) and are applying for permanent residence in Kazakhstan to undertake missionary and humanitary work. Eventually he came back and told us that the documnets would be available ...
Memorable Faces of a Forgotten Nation
A few words on my time in Tibet.............Before I begin, I need to say that as an American I do not feel that it is my place to make comments on an unjust occupation of a foreign country. I had a special time in Tibet and want to share my pics and ...
The Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan!!!
... . Tomorrow the group will try again, sending us back on our way to Xinjiang. Despite our difficulties here in Kazakhstan, we have had some experiences worth remembering. Driving around in our taxi today, we noticed that our driver boasts ...
shymkent, turkistan
... for that night to one of the gals staying over, and i slept on the floor. next day off too turkestan, where kazakhstan's premier historical building lies. its a mausoleum for the first great turkik muslim, kozha akhmed yasaui. beautiful, no doubt, but ...
Thoughts aboard the Plane
... the rest of the update. The biggest thing thats happened since the last update is that I got on an airplane headed for Kazakhstan. The next biggest thing in that same time period would be my new-found ability to check my YFC account donations on-line... ...
Agressie in Kyrgystan
Kyrgystan: schitterend als een diamant... maar wel een hele ruwe! Spectaculaire landschappen, een woeste natuur, azuurblauwe meren waarin de machtige witte bergtoppen spiegelen. Daar we hadden gelezen dat 94% van dit land uit bergen bestaat, bijna de ...
Almaty again...
Siamo tornati ad Almaty dopo una notte sulle panchine dell'aeroporto di Astana. Distrutti ma contenti per gli incontri con delle belle persone. Ora ci aspettano due giorni di attesa per il mitico treno che ci portera' in Cina, ad Urumqi. Non abbiamo ...
caspian sea + actau, kazakhstan
... if i should get my ears cleaned so i can hear properly. as it turned out, the boat is no longer going to actau in kazakhstan but to turkmenbashi in turkmenistan, and i have to disembark directly. great! thats just fabulous! i've checked out of ...
aktobe to shymkent
... that i would post the photos, i disembarked the train i'd ridden for 52 hours, across a timezone and more than halfway across kazakhstan, the ninth biggest country in the world. we met yernar's brother and his mate and wife in the station and they drove ...
Saatoa aaargghh saatoa
Saavuttiin eilen Almatyyn Astanasta virkistavan 18 tunnin dosarupeaman jalkeen, ja ruvettiin diilaamaan Uzbekistanin viisumia. LOI kilahti sahkopostiin kahden aikaan paivalla ja santasimme silta seisomalta kohti Uzbekkien suurlahetystoa. Saatiin nimet ...
Christmas Is Here
Hi everyone well christmas has arrived and with it our last few days here in Kazakhstan. It has been a interesting learning experience and I may not have gotten 100 interviews ( that was a bit unrealistic in hind sight) but the ones I did get will enable ...