A wooden cathedral, one of the few buildings still standing, after a major earthquake. View from my room.
ALMATY
(Kazakhstan)
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A wooden cathedral, one of the few buildings still standing, after a major earthquake. View from my room. |
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Heavy Russian trucks outside of Almaty |
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Almaty is a resort town with a great central pedestrian walkway |
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From there adventure tourist head into the moutains and to Lake Issyk Kul, most of our group did. I didn't, since I took ill in Tashkent. Our man from Berlin arranged transportation. He is, btw, now located here in Almaty. This one will take a bicycle group into the mountains. Here bikes are foam-wrapped to keep them from damage. |
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Weddings at the wooden cathedral from the age of the Russian Czars |
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| There's also a great SUM, Soviet era multi-story department store, where everything can be had, from food to Baltic amber jewelry to sex education, the latter behind a discrete curtain, and assorted appropriate paraphanalia on sale. |
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There is a lookout mountain that we went to via cable car, too late in the evening, though |
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And one is definitely stylish in Almaty |
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