Country Info
- Astana
- Capital
- Tenge (KZT)
- Currency
- 16,731,303
- Population
- KZ
- Country Code
Kazakhstan Slideshow
Kazakhstan
Travel Blogs from Kazakhstan
Food
... that will be added at the end of the summer). For those of you feeling adventurous and truly want a taste of Kazakhstan, I thought that I'd send you a recipe for Cold Borscht -- translated by my friend Emily from a real Russian cookbook. An ...
Zhezkazgan
... It is now effective!! Please don't use the Almaty address anymore. Jessica Robertson Peace Corps P.O. Box 18 Karaganda Oblast Zhezkazgan Kazakhstan 477000 I will write more when I arrive and tell you about my new life. I am very excited to ...
Partnership Grant Request
... to donate please go to www.peacecorps.gov. Then go to DONATE NOW, then to Eastern Europe and Central Asia, then to KAZAKHSTAN. You will see J. Robertson (WI) and Association of Family Physicians. ALL DONATIONS ARE TAX DEDUCTABLE Thanks in advance for any ...
Better Late Then Never
... room. She took a nap while I washed some clothes in the bathtub (it is a new activity that I have learned living in Kazakhstan). We spent the rest of the week exploring Athens. We went to the Acropolis and saw the Parthenon, Theatre of Dionysis, Olympic ...
We Made It!
12 March 05 Hello, We made it! We got here Monday March 7th at 530 AM and have been going since. We spent one night in Almaty and then we drove to a city called Kapshagai, which is about 1.5 hours away. We stayed with our host families the 2nd night ...
Happy New Year!
... 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 ...
Artpologist.net
... 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 ...
Korgas-Zharkent
... , we still had to wait over an hour before we could travel through...and then there was the two hour wait at the Kazakhstan Border Control. A little disconcerting when they took Dave away to prepare yet more documents and made me wait in the truck for ...
News, News, News
... capitol of Kazakhstan. We will present our HIV/AIDS project to some Kazakhstan officials to show that volunteers can be successful in Kazakhstan. There are 5 other volunteers going besides me so I am very excited to travel to a new city and present our ...
Back from Thailand
... Corps volunteers in Thailand. But I told myself that I would visit Thailand and if I lived in Thailand I would not visit Kazakhstan and would not have the opportunity to meet the wonderful people that I have met here. Unfortunately 3 days after I got ...
Back From Almaty
September 30, 2005 Hello Family and Friends, I just got back from Almaty (the old capital), we had our In service training there and also I had an HIV/AIDS training and Project Design and Management training. Almaty is a "big" city compared to what ...
Art openings
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. ...
A short stop in Kasachstann
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazakhstan On the way to Chelyabinsk we left the Trans-Siberian in Omsk and took a route more south. So we passed Kazachstan and had a short stop there in the middle of the ...
AWID Forum Thoughts
... also some areas that we related to the area that I live in. I continually found interesting topics. It is a problem in Kazakhstan and surrounding countries and there is a Peace Corps group that is trying to help some programs in Kazakhstan. I also wanted ...
January Travel Blog
... 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
... 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 ...
Not Good News
... , but I know he too has health issues. In the meantime, I'm trying to take away what good I can. The people I've met from Kazakhstan have been very nice and generous to me. The driver in Kzyl Orda was very cute in that on the second day when I got in ...
Karaganda-Astana
Wed.17th Jun. Karaganda-Astana Susie is having a day off today so it's my turn to stun you with my take on the visual delights etc. It was only a short drive today, 242ks, so we were able to have a leisurely breakfast and wait for the day to warm ...
A trip to the Madanov family's apartment.
... There is an interview with Kisho Kurokawa a Japanese architect that has done a lot of the newest grand scale architecture in Kazakhstan. Also included in the book, are works by the artist, Galim Madanov. He has some nice contemporary art that is ...
Boy's Blog 3
... nbsp; Most expensive- Rural Aus, Cheapest so far- Kazakhstan ( 60c ltr ) Parking Meters ...
A Day In My Life
... this summer since I was the only American and everyone needed something such as internet training or ideas about American programs for Kazakhstan students. I know more people this summer then last so my social life is busy. While Zhanara is gone I am ...
Summer in Zhezkazgan
July 25, 2005 Things in Zhezkazgan are very nice in the summer except for the 100-degree heat and no AC. I am not sure how the people here do it but I guess that it is all that they are used to. I adopted a small fan about the size of a grapefruit ...
Chez Panisse eat your heart out!
Salem, I thought you'd all enjoy these bazaar photos. It's a reminder of how the market at the ferry building in San Francisco is all fluff! You can't find Champagne and fresh oysters here(maybe smoked oysters in a can, and maybe you can find Soviet ...
Astana
Zhanara and I were invited to Astana (the Capitol of Kazakhstan) to attend a ¨Best Practices¨presentation. The Peace Corps chose 5 volunteers, including me and my counterpart, to participate. On April 18th we presented our HIV and AIDS project that we ...
Update from Shimkent
Wednesday I visited the orphange in Kzyl Orda. There were only two children to see. Very sweet boys, both with severe developmental issues. Unfortunately, not children I'm able to care for. We left Kzyl Orda in a taxi around 5 p.m. for a wild five ...
A visit to Tastak and Vadim Kazantsev
... despite the fact that the whole city was struggling to make ends meet. Vadim was trained as an architect, at Kazakhstan Academy Of Architecture. However, he discovered the creative side of him when he reluctantly joined a cooperative that was doing ...
Been Here One Month
... one by buying the supplies for the newsletter: paper, pens, a color printer etc. We are actually going on a business trip to a north Kazakhstan city called Pavlodar in 2 weeks. I was not approved to go by the grant company since I am only going to be here ...
Friends and Family
... for children. Once the camp is over I will finish out my PC paperwork, say good-bye's too many good friends and my Kazakhstan family and travel for a few weeks before going to Milwaukee. I will spend time in Milwaukee with family and friends and then work ...
Searching - the hard way.
... not carrying a "Lonely Planet" or other brand guide book. I would need an expensive book ($20 + each) for; Nepal, China, Kazakhstan, and Russia. Since I am spending, at most two days in any particular city, I find information by reading about them ...