Turkestan Hotel Almaty
49 Makatayeva Street Almaty, Kazakhstan
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Farewell to Shashlik
We had a fairly straightforward journey over the border and into Kazakhstan. The oil money was in effect again as the roads straight away became smoother and the cars stopped trying to race each other 4 lanes across over half made roads. We managed to track our hotel fairly easily which had a balcony opposite the market with loads of shashlik and …
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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 helft boven de 3000m ligt en een kwart onder gletsjers en eeuwige sneeuw, was het dringend tijd om de woestijn en de steden achter ons te laten. Wat volgt is het relaas van 2 zelf uitgeroepen padvinders die zich vol overgave ...
Newsflash - Borat is not a documentary
We are now in Kazakhstan, a country that is much larger than I suspected - the 9th largest country in the world, I think, in terms of land mass. We are not doing very much of it. In fact, we were supposed to do almost none of it, as it is essentially a transit country to get us into Kyrgyzstan, but we've ended up having quite a few extra days to play with. This is because China has changed our entry date by about a week (apparently they do this), giving us time to come up ...
In all the stans in all the world......
... out for a new, much later departure time ticket.
It wasn't so bad. We had the Craic with the girls who ran the cafe outside , had a few beers, played some cards and listened to the locals sing and play guitar.
When we went to get our bus, it was like a mob. I don't think queues exist here. All that was missing was some old farm hand and his chickens. You'd have to keep an eye out for the young small ones with elbows like steel!
Another bus ride. I slept. ...
Parents in Kazakhstan and lots of skiing.
... with a piece of plastic bag on a hook. There was no mechanism for lengthening/shortening. You stood around a long narrow pond reasonably packed with trout and dropped your hook in, waiting for a fish to come along and hook itself on. See the picture attached. It was pretty tasty once it had been cooked for us though!
We spent the rest of the week looking at some of the sights around Almaty, skiing/snowboarding, and eating at some nice restaurants (including ...



