Culture
- Yurts Are High Fashion and Slum Fashion Too
2011-12-05 - Apples, Sure. But THC is from Kazakhstan too?
2011-10-05 - Naked Man Pot
2011-09-23
- Yurts Are High Fashion and Slum Fashion Too
Resources
- Oh, CNN
2012-07-21 - What Do You Know About Kazakhstan?
2012-07-19 - Books for Kazakh Students
2011-11-06
- Oh, CNN
Politics
- Image
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2011-07-26 - The Naked Truth
2011-06-12
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News
- KZBlog is going down
2013-09-10 - Oh, CNN
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2012-07-15
- KZBlog is going down
Fun
- What Do You Know About Kazakhstan?
2012-07-19 - Yurts Are High Fashion and Slum Fashion Too
2011-12-05 - House Hunters Bishkek
2011-12-02
- What Do You Know About Kazakhstan?
Tourism
- Asian Games Torch
2011-01-12 - Wikitravel
2010-08-07 - ALZHIR, the Soviets and Democracy
2010-07-30
- Asian Games Torch
Life in KZ
- Photo Gallery: Almaty Subway
2011-12-07 - Healthcare and the Private Sector
2011-11-30 - Naked Man Pot
2011-09-23
- Photo Gallery: Almaty Subway
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Tag archive for ‘Tourism’
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We Are Amused
By Lucky21842, via Chris. As the comments on his YouTube video page say, this is done tongue-in-cheek!
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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 […]
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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 […]
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ALZHIR
ALZHIR was the Akmola Labour Camp for Wives of Political Dissidents during Soviet times. Shockingly, not only “traitors to the motherland” but also their families were often arrested and sentenced to camps–-separate camps of course. Now on the site of this camp, just outside Astana, is a nice little museum and a memorial. The museum […]
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Tourism in Kazakhstan: Almatau
Merry Christmas today to any Orthodox readers. We had a lovely Christmas/New Years holiday, spent mostly with family. However we did get away to Almatau, a ski base near Almaty for a few days. It was lovely to be up in the mountains and we had a lot of fun skiing and walking around. I […]
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Borat Is Good for Kazakhstan
Yet again Mr. Sagdiyev has made the news. The Deputy Minister of Tourism and Sport, Kenzhebay Satzhanov, said recently that Borat boosted tourism by 13%. Speaking at tourism industry fair in London, Vice Minister Satzhanov said, “It was free of charge advertising and lots of people want to come and see our country…The rise (in […]
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Falconry on the BBC
The BBC is reporting on falcon hunting in Kazakhstan, specifically problems with finding funding to keep the birds. So now they are catering to the elite, selling hunting trips which subsidizes falcon preserves. Check out the video here And if anyone knows a good place I can go falcon hunting near Astana, let me know. […]
