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In awe of Astana
... it. This trip to the unknown was a revelation. Astana aspires to be the hub of central Asia and it may well happen. There were other tourists here, predominantly from Russia and the other former Soviet republics, but will others from the west follow? Make no mistake it takes a sod of a long journey to get here (seven hours by plane, via Minsk) but those of us who made it to Astana will testify that it was absolutely worth it.
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Astana, I like!
... ignorance and make up a Kazakh stereotype because there was no Kazakh stereotype to begin with. The Borat movie wasn’t banned in Kazakhstan, but it wasn’t widely seen either. Indifference reigned over the whole issue once the initial outrage subsided. And the reality of Kazakhstan could not be more diametrically opposite to the crude rural nation depicted in the film. The country’s vast oil and gas resources are being ...
Episode 9
... is supposed to keep it comfortably warm in the -30c winters they get here, it was uncomfortably hot on this coolish summer day. Would not have liked to have been here yesterday, my stuffing might have melted.
Everywhere we looked there are new apartment buildings. A large cluster of them to the south of the city, more around that shopping centre and heaps more all about, then there are the satellite towns outside that consist of hundreds of look ...
Episode 8
... and went on towards the Kazakh border on an even hotter day, over 40c.
A few more points before we leave Russia: There is a vast amount of rubbish all along the road side everywhere. People dump anything and everything from household waste to industrial waste. In a few areas we had seen that people had been trying to clean it up with plastic bags filled and ready for collection by the roadside. Not sure when and if they will ever ...
Astana
... passports. I think they hadn't seen a foreigner crossing there ever or at least in a while. They were very interested in all our visas and couldn't quite believe we were tourists. Getting that a lot :-D We arrived at five in the morning and we checked our next train and headed out to the tracks. Dan used the overhead pass and I used an internal stairwell. On the bottom floor I met a curious policeman who decided to question me. A stream of khazak or Russian was thrown at ...
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