Hotel Kazakhstan Almaty

I'm sure my attitude will change soon, but at this very moment I think Almaty, Kazakhstan SUUUUUUCKS! The song from the South Park movie, "Fuck Canada," is in my head, except "Fuck Almaty" is sung in it's place. Sing it with me, now!! I've never met ...

... and the staff at the hotel where extremely friendly. We were sad to leave and a little apprehensive about coming to Kazakhstan. We boarded the flight to Almaty at about 4:30 Korea time, the 757 wasn't quite as nice as the 777 we flew from Sydney but ...

Siamo tornati ad Almaty dopo una notte sulle panchine dell'aeroporto di Astana. Distrutti ma contenti per gli incontri con delle belle persone. Ora ci aspettano due giorni di attesa per il mitico treno che ci portera' in Cina, ad Urumqi. Non abbiamo molte ...

Arrived at the hotel at about 5am, then the car arrived at 7am to take me to the venue for the inter-Ministerial National Response Team Workshop and Tabletop Exercises. Ministry of Health, Ministry of Agriculture, and Ministry of Emergency Situations were ...

... a little down on my first day here in Almaty (or, Alma Ata), the largest city (pop. 1.5m?) , and former capital of Kazakhstan. I concluded that the following are some of the factors that attributed to my feeling: (1) I went to Moscow Sheremetyevo 2 ...

... that I was an American, he reluctantly let me through.  It had taken seven hours to get through, but I was finally in Kazakhstan.   There was one more guard to pass.  He wanted to ride my motorcycle, so I got off and watched ...

... expectations.  I had no idea what I was going to find here.  "Most Americans don't really know anything about Kazakhstan.  Actually, most Americans wouldn't even know that it's a country.  The only reason why anybody in America has ...

... to take me on to Paris, oo-la-la! The catch was that first we'd have to make a 24 hour stop in this place called Kazakhstan. They didn't look too thrilled about Kazakhstan. I knew I was going to be glad I had fur when I saw the mountains as we were ...

ïûâèýò! from Almaty, Kazakhstan! It's Billy here with my first blog entry of the entire trip.  The crew and I took a bus from Bishkek to Almaty last Wednesday and were dropped off at some God-forsaken bus station that didn't make it ...

... it to be one of the finest meats and usually seek when traveling in out in places like Quebec, France, Belgium, and now Kazakhstan where it's considered a delicacy.  Yumm! I suppose I must have looked especially pathetic as I was ...

... . i looked around. i was running out of deodorant so i considered buying some rexona anti perspirant/ deodorant before i left kazakhstan, because i knew that in china the deodorant is crap and produced for chinese people who don't sweat and would work for ...

... a Western meal! It's so nice here, we think we might stay a couple of days and stop to smell the roses. Friday. 12 Jun. Almaty. A perfectly lazy day and a big walk to sort out yet more documentation. i.e. Even though we have a Kazakh. Visa, we have to ...

... in ein besseres Hotel ziehen. Hier lebt man wieder wie Gott in Kasachstan, das Motto des Intercontinentals hier ist "The Ankara in Kazakhstan". Gemessen am Frühstücksbuffet könnte man aber auch "New York, London, Paris, Moskau oder Tokyo in Kasachstan" ...