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Kazakhstan

5 places visited between 2016 and 2025

August 2025 Almaty Three visits to Almaty: Big Almaty Lake, the wooden Zenkov Cathedral, a golden eagle at Medeu, the Green Bazaar, tandyr bread and a smoking garden samovar.
June 2016 Otrar Otrar in June 2016: the excavated ruins of a great Silk Road city, its rebuilt gate, the Arystan Bab Mausoleum and a yurt welcome out on the steppe.
June 2016 Shymkent Shymkent in June 2016: a hotel with a serious taste for gold, lunch on a carpeted tapchan, sizzling dinner plates and our launchpad for Otrar and Turkistan.
June 2016 Turkistan Turkistan in June 2016: the tiled mass of the Khoja Ahmed Yasawi Mausoleum under its turquoise domes, plus one very patient camel in the rose garden.
June 2016 Astana Astana in June 2016: the Bayterek tower glowing at night, the Hazrat Sultan Mosque, Norman Foster's glass pyramid and a capital built at full volume.