KZBlog

An American expat living in Astana, Kazakhstan

Tag archive for ‘Aktau’

  • Everthenomad.com

    I thought it was appropriate that I was asked to do a guest post on a blog called Everthenomad. Anja, who runs the blog asked me to write about some of my favorite places to go. I thought it would be fun to write about some of the lesser known attractions rather than just discussing […]

  • The Road to Beket-Ata

    The Road to Beket-Ata

    As promised in my post on Aktau, I want to write about the road trip to Beket-Ata. In Western Kazakhstan, there were a number of Sufi teachers who came and lived in caves in the area, running medressahs, consulting on difficult matters and healing people. They say there are 365 of these cave complexes (sometimes […]

  • Your Eyes are as Deep as the Caspian Sea

    Your Eyes are as Deep as the Caspian Sea

    As part of my aforementioned vacation, I went to Aktau in Western Kazakhstan. The main reason for this was to finally get a chance to swim in the Caspian Sea at long last. Interestingly while the Caspian has some romantic and poetic value in the West (I think of Jill Sobule’s Good Person Inside as […]