Stuck between the desert and the Caspian, hundreds of kilometers from anywhere else of any size, with all its water derived from sesalination, Aktau is perhaps the most oddly stuated of all the weirdly located places scaterred across the former USSR Local...

At Turkistan, 165kms northwest of Shymkent in the Syr-Darya valley. stands Kazakstans greatest architectural monument and its most important site of pilgrimage. The mausoleum of the forst great Turkic Muslim holy man, Kozha Akhmed Yasaui, was built by Tim...

Astana, capital of Kazakhstan and Aqmola province, is located in the north-central part of the country on the Ishim River in a very flat, semi-desert steppe region. Astana is a very young capital of a very recent nation. Kazakhstan achieved its independen...

Almaty is Kazakstans main transport hub and a place many travelers pass through rather than linger, but if you do stay a few days you will find- as sev eral thousand Western expats have -that Almaty is a place for enjoying many green parks and colorfully ...