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Yearly Archives: 2010
Bayan Olgii- Mogoit Valley
May 24, 2010 Today marked the first day of our tour. Our first order of business was to register with the police since we are staying in Mongolia for longer than a month. It was simple enough; there was an … Continue reading
Olgii, Mongolia
May 23, 2010 Last night we went to one of the Peace Corps Volunteer’s (PCV) homes for dinner. There was one PCV couple, a single woman, and two Kazakhs. We certainly have a new appreciation for what the PCVs have … Continue reading
Posted in Mongolia
Tagged art, bathhouses, central heating, dinner, discover, discovered, eat, eating, freezing, good, hardships, home, hot, insect, insects, kazakhs, mongolia, pcvs, Peace Corps, peace corps volunteer, peace corps volunteers, volunteer, water
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Ust-Kamengorsk to Olgii
Considering how the day began, it is pretty miraculous that I find myself sitting in a Turkish restaurant in Mongolia. Our flight was originally scheduled to leave yesterday but was rescheduled for today because of a persistent drizzle. It took … Continue reading
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Tagged art, Asia, bird, Bobby, car, contact, dinner, eat, fly, friend, friends, good, hot, hotel, immigration, kazakhs, mongolia, pcvs, Peace Corps, peace corps volunteer, peace corps volunteers, plane, pretty, travel, visa, volunteer, walk, walking
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Ethnic Kazakh Food
While in Kazakhstan, we ate mostly what would be considered ethnic Russian food and some Central Asian staples. We had our real introduction to Kazakh food once we arrived in Western Mongolia. The Western province of Bayan Olgii is an … Continue reading
Astana
Astana is a city filled with the unexpected. Everything from the moment we arrived in the periphery of the city has surprised us. Kazakhstan’s president, Nazarbayev decided in 1997 to move the country’s capital from Almaty to Astana and start … Continue reading
The Train to Astana
We didn’t get much sleep on our last night in Shymkent. We luckily were able to switch to the cheaper room at the hotel next door. There wasn’t a sauna but there was a shared bathroom where the women’s room … Continue reading
Shymkent- Day 2
I fell horribly ill last night. It was probably either the strawberries or the borscht. I was pretty much attached to the toilet so we will stay another night in the pricy room. I stayed in bed until noon making … Continue reading
Food of Uzbekistan
The food in Uzbekistan is a fantastic mix of Middle Eastern and Eastern European. I may also be partial because it happens to combine my two favorite ethnic foods. Uzbekistan certainly does have many dishes to choose from. Here are … Continue reading
Posted in Food, Uzbekistan
Tagged art, beautiful, car, eat, Europe, food, hot, hotel, Middle East, plov
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Shymkent Day 1
After breakfast, around 9:30 , we set off for Kazakhstan. It actually turned out to be more complicated than simply getting in a cab and driving. First we had to walk to the Chorsu metro, go 2 stops, change trains, … Continue reading
Goodbye Uzbekistan
It looks like Kyrgyzstan is out and we will just head straight to Shymkent by shared taxi. We went to a few different travel agents to ask about the flight to Bishkek and nobody seemed to be able to easily … Continue reading