Kazakhstan Adventures at the Dining Table
Kazakhstan, with its penchant for eating horse, should be on your bucket list for adventurous eaters, it’s also got friendly locals and dramatic sights.
Kazakhstan, with its penchant for eating horse, should be on your bucket list for adventurous eaters, it’s also got friendly locals and dramatic sights.
Astana, The Capital City of Flashy Buildings and Marvelous Sights By Isabelle Kagan Astana, simply meaning “capital” in Kazakh, became the capital city of Kazakhstan in 1997 after a government relocation from Almaty, a much older city about 1000 km farther south. The switch was made for multiple reasons: Astana is a less earthquake-prone region…
By David Rich Walking around Kazakhstan’s former capital of Almaty was like walking into a convention of female Russian tennis stars, streets strewn with willowy lasses cavorting in short skirts swirling icy blonde hair, a welcome change to the natural expectation that most everyone would resemble unglamorous buffoons, aka Borat. [Editor’s note: Borat is a…
Backpacking in Kazakhstan: Negotiations at 10,000 Feet By Jessica P. Hayden We had been backpacking through the mountains of Kazakhstan for nearly two days when our horse took off. Not that it was unexpected. The man riding it had been warning us for the last day that he would leave. This was part of the…
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Rostov: the home of Russia’s sweet onion provides the perfect quirky Escape from Moscow By Victoria Green Moscow is infamously busy. Locals and tourists alike have been fleeing the city for a quieter Russian experience in the ‘golden ring’ – a circle of ancient religious towns dotted around Moscow for generations. For those tourists who…
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Waking Up in Warsaw, Poland: Polish Airlines’ Dreamliner Experience By Stephen Hartshorne GoNOMAD Associate Editor I thought I was dreaming. There I was in Newark Airport and the fire engines were spraying water on a jetliner. Then I was on board the plane, but I wasn’t jammed into a narrow seat the way I usually…