Kazakhstan – about half the size of contiguous 48 States, the United Kingdom, the ninth largest country in the world to visit various Geography and shortage of places with an impressive. Gradually make the flat steppes of Northern Forest in arid regions and deserts in the South. Kazakhstan is rich in minerals and has large reserves of oil and gas.
Islam and Christianity are the dominant religion, though religious tolerance is the accepted standard, and, as a relic of the Soviet era, many people have no religion at all. National People’s Congress of Kazakh hospitality. For many years due to the nomadic culture of the country are honored guests strangers. From childhood deeply rooted respect for guests and elders, tolerance and peace.
Almaty is the commercial capital in the East, and the largest city in the country. Ancestral home Apple worldwide are found in this region be. In fact, “Alma” means “Apple”. Caravan of the Silk Road was the fiercest in the West of the city with spices, porcelain, silk and influence from the East seized the civilization.
The overnight train takes you on a journey to the West at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, the Russian space company. Once secretly guarded location, TV is now open to visitors, where possible, the birthplace of space travel, to visit the set, where the original Cosmonaut training, and where to start today Russian flights to the international space station.
Approximately 100 miles (160 km) East of Almaty are the natural beauty of Altyn Emel National Park. The region contains rare animals like Siberian mountain goats, the ancient Scythian burial mounds, rock-3500 years ago and Kyzyl-Auyz where rising stone he barks so difficult that could withstand the axe. The Park also includes the “otherworldly” Lunar and unforgettable “Dune,” making sound body with dry weather. Invisibly slides down a dune movement pestschinok in dry weather creates in dry conditions, which together produce powerful waves, resonance conditions within miles of the environment, feel vibrations, which is electrified.
Also here as charyn Canyon, younger brother of the Grand Canyon of America, with colorful, deep canyons and spectacular rock formations and some of the best hiking, canyoning, rafting in the world and water supplied.