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An American expat living in Astana, Kazakhstan

Tag archive for ‘Shopan Ata’

  • 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 […]