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• Koktem Keldi

  Inshallah. Finally it’s getting a bit warmer out here on the frozen steppes. Astana is not as exciting a place to live as Almaty for outdoor fun, but over the years we’ve discovered a few places to go. I’ve posted on some of them before like the yurt camp near Astana and Eco-Village where you […]

  3/12/11 • (2)

• Tomato

  Chris Merriman has up a link to a great resource: Tomato, which is a Kazakhstan-based review site for businesses. A little like Yelp for Kazakhstan, Pomidor (which means “tomato” in Russian) lets people put up reviews and stories of their experiences at different businesses in Kazakhstan. It needs a little more work–be nice to have […]

  1/26/11 • (2)

• Wikitravel

  In yet another effort to learn more about things to do in Astana, I’ve been editing the Astana on Wikitravel. Would be great to see more people join in and give out some information that only locals know.

  8/07/10 • (Comments Off on Wikitravel)

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  Where the Flamingos Roam

  I’ve had this draft post for a while and never managed to find time to fill it out. This is another great place to not too far from Astana: Korgalzhyn Nature Reserve. It’s a few hours west of Astana out the Kurgalzhino Highway. Getting there is a bit difficult because you have to go to […]

  8/05/10 • (2)

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  RVS is Boring

  According to Adil Nurmankov, the retro style restaurant that featured nostalgic Soviet chic, RVS, is now just a restaurant [RUS]. Once a magnet for tourists featuring Lenin’s portrait on the walls and quotes from Soviet documents, apparently now: in the halls, they have the same tables, but without the revolutionary menu. However, they do have […]

  4/29/10 • (5)

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  .001% of the Internet Thinks My Site is Cool

  I finally broke 100,000 on my Alex Rank! Which was a small personal goal, albeit fairly meaningless in the long run. But it was something I was aiming for. Taking this time to look at my most popular posts, I am amazed to see that Fut-Fut-Fut-freestailo is the most popular post of all time on […]

  4/27/10 • (1)

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  Ice Village

  One of the things I am looking forward to for New Years is the Ice Town. Although I hear that they do this in Scandinavian countries, I have never seen it anywhere but Astana so I like to think of it as a unique attraction in Kazakhstan. They’ve probably already started digging ice up out […]

  12/18/09 • (1)

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  A Beach 30 Minutes from Astana

  Another comment I’m reposting from the Tourism page–leave a comment there on your recommendations of what to do in Kazakhstan and I’ll repost it on my blog, plus give you a credit/link of your choice. Bozaigyr: A small beach next to a lake north of Astana. There’s a cafe that serves food–shashlik and so on. […]

  12/15/09 • (Comments Off on A Beach 30 Minutes from Astana)

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  Eco Village

  Obviously it’s getting a bit cold for outside activities, but in a blatant attempt to promote my Tourism page, I’m republishing my comment on Ecovillage. Feel free to add information here or on the Tourism page about Ecovillage or other things to do in and around Astana. I’m also planning to repost the best comments […]

  11/30/09 • (Comments Off on Eco Village)

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  Tourism Page

  Of all the cool new things that come with having my own domain and a proper version of WordPress, one of the best is that the Tourism Page is up and works accepting comments. When my friend came to visit me this summer one of the frustrations we had was that once we’d done Bayterek […]

  11/14/09 • (Comments Off on Tourism Page)

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