Almaty Hotels - Reviews and Rates

Tuesday, August 4:

I made it! I am writing this blog two hours after I landed in Almaty (1:10am) and one hour after I arrived at the KIMEP dormitory (2:00am). In other words, it is 3:10am right now. I wanted at least to get a blog started, write down my first impressions.

The 24 hours of flying weren’t bad at all. I flew 2:2...

Den Samstag nutzte ich um endlich mal meine neuen Ski** einzuweihen, auf nach Shymbulak, auf die Hauspiste Almatys. Das Skigebiet liegt auf 2.000 bis 3.200 Met**n Höhe, mit drei Liften **reicht man den Talgar Pass und damit die Höhe von 3.200 Met**n. Weil ich 12 Jahre nicht mehr auf Ski**n gestanden habe hätte ich eigentlich mehr Schwi**igkeiten...

June 26, 2008 I woke up in the morning with nothing to do. I walked through a park to a supermarket and did some grocery shopping. I got bought some yogurt and dumplings for breakfast and ate on a bench in the park. I sent the waitress, whose name is Gauhar, a message thanking her for her help and offered to take her out for dinner. She replied ...

Well, I left Hong Kong this morning, early. The phone in the hotel room rang at 4:10 AM. Now that was a painful wake-up call! I'm bumming a ride with these three guys, Ross, Jon & Jim. They said they usually don't pick up bears, but they'd make an exception since I was from the States and all. I have a feeling this is going to be an interesting ...

Well today was a public holiday here in Kazakhstan, with Independence Day being on the Sunday a long weekend seems to have been given to most schools and other enterprises. After being kept awake till 4 in the morning by the fireworks that were going off around the city of almaty on Sunday and again on Monday you can see why everyone needed a 4 ...

We finally made it to the Museum of Kazkah Musical Instruments on Tuesday. The museum is housed in a beautiful old wooden building at the eastern end of Ascension Park. We had to pay 200 Tenge ($2) each to get in and walked through three rooms of instruments behind glass panels. The lights seemed to be turned off, and there where no 'interactive...

After many weeks of practicing our walking, we (Daniel, Lily and Heath) headed off to try and find the Zoo. Our first stop was an 'Aptyeka' (Chemist) because Heath had a bit of a fall and needed a bandaid for his finger. We then ventured on to Ascension park. On the way we were approached by a elderly lady with copies of the 'Watchtower' magazin...

Well everyone is now feeling marginaly better and we managed a 6km walk this afternoon to the RamStore which we had heard about on another weblog. We weren't 100% sure where it was but knew it was on Furminov St, near the Presidents Residence, fortunately after an hours walk, we passed the impossing presidents residence and national museum and t...

It only took us five hours to cross the border from China ....surprisingly hassle free. Most of the time, was just spent waiting around for something to happen - like the Chinese border post to open up! If anything there was more interest from the Chinese - for some reason that we couldn't fathom, we were photographed and videoed all the time we...

We're in Almata right now, and leaving for Bishkek, in Kyrgyzstan tomorrow. We're healthy and eating well, and we haven't been robbed or unwillingly donated any vital organs! We aim to spend the next week making our way through Kyrgyzstan and the Ferghana valley to Tashkent, and from there touring around Uzbekistan from mid-June until our date w...