Here we have a shot of the stage in the daytime, to give you a better idea of how it looked on the day. In the background you can see the Presidential Palace.
That (under the yellow awning) is where the real VIPs (the President and his associates) sat for the evening festivities, though the concert itself was only accessible to those lucky enough to know someone who could get their hands on some tickets (big thanks to Ira’s Dad for sourcing them 🙂 ).
Again, the photo does not really do it justice, but there is a sample of the fireworks that were let off to celebrate the President’s birthday.
The last photo from that evening, here we have a photo of Alex taking a photo of the Baiterek Tower.
March 1st, 2008 2:52 am
[…] are from when AlexC was here, and we went to the Astana Day Concert. See the two posts here and here for a little more background information, and some pictures from the evening. Anyway, here is the […]