The Wandering Scot
An occasional travel journal
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| Fields of Poppies, 7 miles W of Almaty
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Almaty-1
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| Monument of Independece (Golden Man column) in approaching thunderstorm
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Suburban Sculpture Park
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| Almaty Lenin
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| Almaty Lenin
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| Almaty Lenin
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| Kalinin statue
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| Kalinin statue
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Almaty-2
After a trip into Tajikistan and along the Pamir Highway, I returned to the luxury of the Almaty Intercontinental!
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Gift shop at the Almaty Intercontinental
They must have known I was coming.
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| Modernistic building, distant Tien Shan mountains
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| Around Monument of Independence (Golden Man column).
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| Memorial to the 1986 demonstrations.
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| Nazarbayev, of the golden hand.
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Panfilov park
Commemorating the Panfiolov Rifle Regiment who went to the defence of Moscow.
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| Zenkov Cathedral (1907)
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| Zenkov Cathedral
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WWII Memorial. Soldiers leaping out of a USSR map.
The quote is a call to defend Moscow.
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| WWII Eternal Flame
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| Red Cavalry 1917-1920 Monument
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| 1914-1945 Monument
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| Afghan War memorial
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Central State Museum
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| Central State Museum: Entry hall
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| Reproduction of the 3rd c BC "Golden Man"
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| 7th c BC gold clothing ornaments
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Central State Museum
Gravestone with a date in the "Calendar of Khan Alexander"
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| Unusual Inscription
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| Obligatory Yurt
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Almaty to Shymkent
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| Poppies, 57 miles West of Almaty
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| 59 miles North of Bishkek
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| 60 miles North of Bishkek
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| Snack stop at Shu station
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| Mountains to the South, 113 miles West of Bishkek
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| 48 miles East of Shymkent
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| 42 miles East of Shymkent
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| Hurtling into the approaching night
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Turkistan
Mausoleum of Hodja Ahmed Yassau
Built on the command of Timur, in the 1390s.
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The bird infested facade (one got me).
The projecting beams are unfinished original work
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| Interior. The giant cauldron was commisioned by Timur.
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Elsewhere around Turkistan
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| Kiosk beside the Tomb
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| The "Underground Mosque"
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| Turkistan Ethnographic Museum
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| Turkistan Station
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Shymkent
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| 17 miles SE of Turkistan
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| 48 miles NW of Shymkent
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| Shymkent Lenin
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| Shymkent Lenin
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Shymkent Rixos Hotel
An over-the-top 5 star luxury hotel
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| Shymkent Rixos Hotel
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Astana
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| Preparations for Expo 2017
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| View from the Marriott
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| View from the Marriott
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| The "Cigarette Lighter"
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| Bayterek Tower
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| Bayterek Tower
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President Nazarbayev's Handprint
Atop the Bayterek Tower
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| Atop the Bayterek Tower
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| View from the Bayterek Tower
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| Presidential Palace + Great Daleks
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| One of the Great Daleks
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| Presidential Palace
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| Kazakhstan Central Concert hall
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| Astana Mosque
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Khan Shatyr
Not in fact an alien uplink facility, but a mall and entertainment center.
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| Khan Shatyr
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| Khan Shatyr
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| Inside Khan Shatyr
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| Inside Khan Shatyr
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| Inside Khan Shatyr
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| A ride around the Monorail!
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| A ride around the Monorail!
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| A ride around the Monorail!
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Tajikistan
