From Astana to Petropavlovsk

On Thursday and Friday 24 and 25 September I traveled with colleagues to Kokshetau and Petrovavlovsk in the north of Kazakhstan. We flew to Astana from Almaty and then drove by car to Petropavlovsk while stopping over in Schuchinsk, Borovoye and Kokshetau on the way. In all we drove well over 1’000km in these two days.

Zhumbaktas sphinx  (click to enlarge)The first stop on the way was Lake Borovoye where we stopped at the Goluboy Zaliv bay from where you have a good view of the Zhumbaktas sphinx which sits in the water and which with some imagination resembles the head of a young lady.


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