It took a while (see here for previous mentions of them), but I can finally present a few photos taken of the Buddy Bear exhibition that was in Astana last year. DanC was back in town at the time, and so most of us managed to meet up near Baiterek and have a look around. It was a good afternoon out, though I wish Anna had already become used to her sunglasses, as she seems to hate bright sun in her eyes even more than me. This meant she probably wasn’t able to get a good look at some bears.
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- Chris And Anna With Two Buddy Bears. One Of Whom Appears To Be 8-Bit
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- Walton, Chris, Anna And A Couple Of Dans
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- Can You Guess Which Country That Bear Is From?
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- Aidan
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- Japanese Buddy Bear
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- Beautiful Bear And Concept
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- Walton And His National Buddy
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- We Loved Moldova’s Bear – Up Front And Honest
For more information and photos, Kazakh Nomad’s blog entries from last year are worth checking out.
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Forgot to put the date from these photos – 15th May 2010
April 28th, 2011 11:42 pm
Thanks, it was fun to take photos of all the Buddy Bears. The tricky thing was to remember which bear represented which country, some were difficult to remember.
May 4th, 2011 10:22 am
Understood re. difficulties remembering which bear was from which country (see the 8-bit photo above 🙂 ). Right, I’m off to tidy up the front page, far too many individual tweets without the linked media embedded.
May 4th, 2011 7:22 pm
Never understood why Canada went with the 8-bit look. Must be some hidden meaning. Also, why did U.K. make it look like they needed googles with Arab head dress? Some questions about the Buddy Bear, we will never know. Others were pretty straight forward such as the Statue of Liberty or the Japanese flag.