Astana became Kazakhastan’s capital in the late 90s. It grew by a million people or so since then. It is a planned city.
airporta busy bazaarlots of burgersformer newspaper publishing house, now a museum in honor of the poet Selfullin Saker (and two others)the Beatlesmany ice cream shops and stands, and busy (here I happened to catch a second without patrons and pedestrians)on a footbridgeChinese horoscopessliced, fried, and spiced potato, about $1.25around 7:30AM, sun directly behind me, very little activity at this hour, most coffee shop open 8 or afterlooking at another footbridgefor circusesopera house, the chariot on top is similar to the one in Rome’s Venetian Palacelovers’ parka mall, has a movie theater and gamesan abnormal number of yankees hats (…e.g. child in the middle)presidential palacetheatre, artspalace of peace and reconciliationpalace of peace and reconciliation behind mealas, closed when I arrived 🙁national museum… “closing in five minutes” 🙁the foot bridge at night
Beautiful pictures. You must’ve walked 10 miles a day. Astana, Kazakhstan looks particularly interesting. Wonderful architecture and sculptures. There’s no such thing as too many New York Yankee caps!
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Beautiful pictures. You must’ve walked 10 miles a day. Astana, Kazakhstan looks particularly interesting. Wonderful architecture and sculptures. There’s no such thing as too many New York Yankee caps!
I had a responsibility to tell them the truth… that the yankees have not won much in the last 20+ years.