Astana Travel Blogs, Travelogues and Travel Journals

People i met here who contributed to and improved my trip: Julia (Russia)   Lousy Planet from 2004 said that hotel prices in Astana had sky rocketed in recent years, and having witnessed first hand the hefty prices we had paid throughout the rest of the country, i feared the worst. Leaving the station, we spotted numerous gostinitsas (cheap hotels) around the station square and headed to the one that looked most run down. It took a little bit of time to find the owner, who finally came…

i discovered new country. i didn't know about it anything but during traveling i was suprised! good country, good people!

I didn't leave Karaganda until about noon, and settled for a 4-hour bus ride that seemed quick by comparison to other recent bus trips. The bus and train stations in Astana are adjacent and luckily I found a room at the train station with a check-out time corresponding to exactly the time I needed to leave for the airport the next day. Astana was even colder than Karaganda, probably in the upper teens to low twenties when I was walking around. It was pretty much dusk but the city was lit up a…