Best Eastern Astana Intl Hotel Almaty

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113 Baitursynov Street Almaty, Kazakhstan, 3272-507050

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School Days

I am really sorry that I have not posted in so long. My internet stopped working altogether for several weeks. I finally got it up and running, but it has been pretty flaky ever since. I'm going to keep trying to post as often as possible. I apologize for anymore future long silences.

Well, school got off to a rocky start, what with trying to figure out the class registration system and complications at the Registrar's Office. I admire registrars ...

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One steppe closer

... as a general lack of sleep the day before I left due to packing) seems to have reset everything back to zero. Hurrah.

Flying into Almaty, the sun had just started to rise over the steppe and mountains, and the sight was quite fantastic. The occasional remnant of a collective farm dotted a landscape that was otherwise crossed by ravines, steppe, dirt tracks (presumably the main roads...) and, closer to Almaty, what I presume to ...

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Out and About

... Kazakh citizens understand, if not speak Kazakh. The older generation, it appears to me, all speak Kazakh, and often may even prefer to speak Kazakh instead of Russian. The younger generations, however, are less likely to speak Kazakh.

In the medical centers, the doctors, nurses, and registrars freely switch back and forth between languages, depending on the language in which the patients address them. Ainash, my host counselor, says that ...

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Impressions

... is completely Kazakh) and my accent when speaking Russian, I don’t completely stand out like a sore thumb. Hurrah! Once I explain to the person helping me that I am American, and that is why I am so confused about what they are telling me, they are all smiles. They exclaim, “Why did you come to Kazakhstan? To work? To study?” I say, “To study.” They say, “Why Kazakhstan? Normally it is the other way around ...

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Amazing, spectactular and beepy!

Well this is my first post in over a week. We have not found internet since Volgograd in Russia. Almaty will be the last big city until Ulan Bator.Ill start with our entry into Kazakh. It feels like ages ago!

We made our way down from Volgograd to Astrakhan, camping on the beach by the river. Its amazing how the ethnicity changes in a short distance. Volgograd was pure russian, but just down the road, everything changed. Astrakhan is considered as the city where east meets ...

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Nothing new

Hallo Frank, damit Du nicht denkst ich hielte die Kinder nur im Keller, hier ein paar Beweisfotos, dass es nicht so ist. Okay, Sohni ist die meiste Zeit des Tages Arbeiten, wir haben ihm mehrere Jobs organisiert, er kann ja schließlich nicht immer nur auf Kosten anderer leben. Der erste Job ist Gärtner für die gesamte Nachbarschaft. Rasen mähen, wässern, Bäume beschneiden, vor Hunden ...

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Left Talgar Valley

... kasachische und kirgisische Berge genossen und dann den Abstieg über Schnee- und Geröllfelder zum Almatiner See begonnen. Spätestens als wir die Verbindungsstraße bzw. -piste zwischen Kasachstan und Kirgistan erreicht hatten, hatte ich eigentlich schon fast genug. Bei der Umrundung des Pik Sowjetskaya, die sich dann noch vier Stunden hinzog, hab ich die meiste Zeit nur noch darauf gewartet hinter dem nächsten Berg den Almatiner See zu erblicken. Und irgendwann kam er ja dann auch...

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Boy's Blog 3

... and you'll fine yourself airborne off the end of some perfect seal onto packed rock and its a real attention grabber. Your progress is being watched around your approved route. You are photographed at every toll booth. The rest of the driving has been straightforward, Laos being the only other country with very bad stretches on the main highway. The ...

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Kazakh Wedding

... des Hochzeitstagen angefährt. Und dann werden eben diese Stationen angefahren: Erst das Standesamt, dann diverse Heldendenkmäler und zum Schluss das Restaurant. Das Standesamt ist eine größere Halle, in der streng nach Henry Ford die Brautpaare durch die verschiedenen Stationen geschleust werden. Erst ein Foto des Brautpaars vor der Fototapete, dann die religiös-moslemische Trauung im Familienkreise und mit Kopfbedeckung, danach die ...

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Uzbek Embassy

... auf das Botschaftsgelände. Etwa eine halbe Stunde später kam ich mit dem Visum im Reisepass wieder raus. Darüber, warum das alles so lange gedauert konnte ich dann auf dem 1 1/2 stündigen und vielleicht 8 Kilometer langen Weg zurück ins Büro nachdenken. Lang lebe die Rush Hour in Almaty! Und noch eine Besonderheit: Das Visum kostet 75 USD (ja US-Dollar, weder kasachische Tenge noch usbekische Som werden genommen), für Amerikaner kostet das Visum allerdings 131 USD.

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