by timshazz | Jul 4, 2021 | Backpacking, Destinations
Where is Turkistan? (And why would you want to visit?) Turkistan, the city, lies around 160 km northwest of Shymkent in Kazakhstan.It’s the capital of the Turkistan region of Kazakhstan and the home of the Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi. Yasawi was the...
by timshazz | Jul 3, 2021 | Backpacking, Destinations
Watermelon pink walls – Ouch! The overnight train trip to Shymkent, Kazakhstan’s third-largest city, was fairly uneventful and almost comfortable if it wasn’t for the fact the Air-Con only worked when the train was moving rapidly and that wasn’t all...
by timshazz | Jul 3, 2021 | Backpacking, Destinations
Green Market – Almaty As much as we would have probably liked to sleep till midday, we had lots of things to do in Almaty (AKA Alma – Ata) before we could start to enjoy ourselves. After our somewhat traumatic 23 hour crossing from China, I was totally...
by timshazz | Jun 29, 2021 | Backpacking
After 8 weeks in China, and some super-long Chinese train trips, we were ready to move onto the next part of our Silk Road Adventure – THE STANS in Central Asia. The first cab off the rank was Almaty in Kazakhstan, but getting there wasn’t going to be a...
