Travelogues Almaty Region

The landscape behind Almaty from the car window

With a guided tour, exclusively occupied by Kazakhs and Russians besides us, Philipp and I traveled to a canyon and two mountain lakes. The tour itself was long, a bit chaotic,...

Tuesday (29.10.2019) welcomes us with beautiful weather. The sun is shining and the strong gusts of wind from the previous evening have died down. So I take the opportunity to...

Of course, Ruslan had to go to work the next day as well. He would have liked to keep both of us longer, but we were a bit annoyed by the wasted day and saw no prospect of...

Aman and I had decided the night before to visit the Altyn Emel National Park together. We had read on the internet that a permit is required to enter and that there are two...

Today, it should finally go to Kazakhstan. After all, it was only 25 kilometers to the border. This time, however, I was struggling with an extremely strong headwind, so I only...

On my way to Almaty, I made a stop in Konaev. I will stay here for two nights. Konaev is located by the Kapshagay Reservoir. After settling into my accommodation, I went to the...

The next day started just like the previous one ended. It kept raining and I struggled to push my bike through the muddy field. At times, it almost got stuck like in Greece, but...

I didn't leave Almaty to my host until the evening because he still had to work and it was only 30 kilometers. I was looking forward to seeing Aman again! The family also...