{"id":1205,"date":"2024-06-07T04:41:21","date_gmt":"2024-06-07T04:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/henshall.com\/p2p2024\/?p=1205"},"modified":"2024-06-07T04:41:21","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T04:41:21","slug":"kazakhstan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henshall.com\/p2p2024\/2024\/06\/07\/kazakhstan\/","title":{"rendered":"Kazakhstan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

So we are leaving Kazakhstan. Clearly a big country and one I\u2019m happy leaving as my P2P memory is trying to keep the Mini going <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a country a few observations <\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can see it us an ex USSR country by the architecture and the relative lack of infrastructure. The contrast with China is stark! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Almaty is the old capital and very vibrant. Lots of people , poor housing and then new shiny shops in city centre and sport cars. It reminded me of Mexico City but it felt very safe<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The countryside in east of the country is very beautiful and not populated at all Very little livestock too. The further west the more desert like it became with camels \/ horses \/ goats<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The final two days we drive across what was the Aral Sea. Once the third largest lake in the world less than 10% remains and it is a desert <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The love their horse meat ( quite tasty) and even drank Camel milk ( was really nice. Reminds me of Yakult!) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally I need to reference the cars clearly all 30-40 year Audis come to live and be thrashed to death\ud83d\ude0e. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hopefully all the pictures below do it justice <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Soviet style <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Contrast on infrastructure with China is huge <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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They all have these arches as we come into town <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Tough roads<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Bleak living <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Farmers house <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Aral Sea <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Lots of camels \ud83d\udc2b <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Camel milk <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Old Audi come to \ud83c\uddf0\ud83c\uddff <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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No more camping on P2P<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Long long drives <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Second oldest car in rally a Chrysler <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Mini lived everywhere<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Goodbye \ud83c\uddf0\ud83c\uddff<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So we are leaving Kazakhstan. Clearly a big country and one I\u2019m happy leaving as my P2P memory is trying to keep the Mini going As a country a few observations You can see it us an ex USSR country by the architecture and the relative lack of infrastructure. The contrast with China is stark! […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1227,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henshall.com\/p2p2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henshall.com\/p2p2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henshall.com\/p2p2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henshall.com\/p2p2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henshall.com\/p2p2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1205"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/henshall.com\/p2p2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1254,"href":"https:\/\/henshall.com\/p2p2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205\/revisions\/1254"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henshall.com\/p2p2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henshall.com\/p2p2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henshall.com\/p2p2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henshall.com\/p2p2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}