KZBlog

An American expat living in Astana, Kazakhstan

Tag archive for ‘travel’

  • Tourism Page

    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 […]

  • We Are Amused

    By Lucky21842, via Chris. As the comments on his YouTube video page say, this is done tongue-in-cheek!

  • 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 […]