2024 Central Asia and Eastern Europe Tour - First Stop: Almaty, Kazakhstan

Travel dates: 15/8 - 18/8/2024
AirAsia Hong Kong -> Kuala Lumpur 🇲🇾 -> Almaty 🇰🇿

Take advantage of this Gap Year to discover the world✨! This journey took a total of 44 days and was like a dream! From Kazakhstan to Poland, mid-August to late September.

Let's talk about the first country. This time I leave with a backpack and a 20-inch suitcase. I leave from Hong Kong to Kuala Lumpur, where I have to stay for one night, then to Almaty. The flight is not expensive, including the extra 7kg luggage weight, and two in-flight meals, for a total of $2188 HKD.

I did my homework before, the Kazakh call car app to use Yandex go, the map to use Yandex map, both apps have to use the local mobile phone number to register, the Russian version of uber and google map, maybe the former Soviet Union relationship😂.

Speaking of the journey, once I arrived, I wanted to find a bus, but I couldn't find a stop, walked from T2 to T1 (Figure 4) and couldn't find it.

Starting the city walk the next morning, you have to go to the newsstand specifically to buy a transportation card, locally called the Onay card (Figure 5), but the subway (Figure 6) and bus, which cost 130 Tenge (HK$2.1) a way, take as many stops as you like. There are not many attractions in the city, mainly churches and parks, the most famous of which are the Ascended Catholic Church (Fig. 8) and First Presidential Park (Fig. 9, 10).

On the third day with the local tour, I participated in the one called joinme, which included five attractions in one day, all in the suburbs of Almaty.

The last day of the trip was not very smooth, because of the bad weather, 13 14 degrees and rain, only up to Medeu ski resort (picture 11) and Shymbulak snow mountain (picture 12), due to heavy fog and heavy rain, 2000 meters above sea level, nothing to see😂


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Post by ol18sidemen | Nov 5, 2024