Shymkent, Kazakhstan

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Yallama, Yallama, Yallama...... continued, Shymkent, Kazakhstan travel blog
Yallama, Yallama, Yallama...... continued
Jul 17, 2009

... I had to part with a 10 dollar bribe, but as there was no insurance and no road tax that wasn't too bad. Inside Kazakhstan we headed north again and weren't even as far as the planned Tashkent border crossing before we stopped.  We had managed to buy ...

A travel blog entry by davechrisdamo
shymkent, turkistan, Shymkent, Kazakhstan travel blog
shymkent, turkistan
Jan 31, 2007

... for that night to one of the gals staying over, and i slept on the floor. next day off too turkestan, where kazakhstan's premier historical building lies. its a mausoleum for the first great turkik muslim, kozha akhmed yasaui. beautiful, no doubt, but ...

A travel blog entry by dougfranks
aktobe to shymkent, Shymkent, Kazakhstan travel blog
aktobe to shymkent
Jan 25, 2007

... that i would post the photos, i disembarked the train i'd ridden for 52 hours, across a timezone and more than halfway across kazakhstan, the ninth biggest country in the world. we met yernar's brother and his mate and wife in the station and they drove ...

A travel blog entry by dougfranks
Coming Home, Shymkent, Kazakhstan travel blog
Coming Home
Feb 27, 2006

... . I think I may finally be ready to accept that. To those of you who are working with other agencies toward adoption from Kazakhstan, I have nothing bad to say about the people or the place. All have been very kind to me. The workers at the education ...

A travel blog entry by travelmom