30th - 31st Mar 2025
Extraordinary! Further to my last I have left Kazakhstan and just arrived in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. After a very tiresome train journey and just before going to bed (its 0115hrs here on the 5th April) I tried, out of interest, to test logging in to amend or add to my dreaded blog. Unlike the total failure in Almaty, it worked here without any problems! I suspect Kazakhstan, for some reason, blocks access to the 'Blogger' system. Maybe some over-enthusiastic 'Blogger' said something rude about them! I have masses to catch up on so will, if the system still allows, be posting some more gems of interest to bore you with when time permits. In the meanwhile I have some travellin' to do, so stand-by for more highlights from Travellin' Uncle Matt in due course.
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| Almaty looking South towards the Alatau mountains |
Left: The Kazakh national flag.
Right: The Almaty city map. This thoroughly disorientated me! The top is to the South. I am automatically hard-wired to assume the top of any map indicates North. OK, turn the map around, but then the writing is upside down. Apparently it is the custom here to have the map orientated to the South as that is the high/mountainous area. No, me neither….!! The 'central' part is to the left (ie. East).
