Flying in you can't even see the city literally it's in the middle of nowhere, completely surrounded by steppe.
Driving through it's beautiful the architechure is so modern and every building is designed in a different way, a different shape......incredible.
There were huge bilboards of the gold medalists from the olympics lining the main street driving in. There's an obvious difference between Almaty and Astana and I for one am glad we went to Almaty first because it would have been a let down doing it the other way around.
Up this morning to explore the city and so far we are well under budget at $180 total roughly each so $60 a day. Our budget was around $100 or 15000Tenge or there abouts, were well under and that means we may splurge on a couple of gorgeous bracelets towards the end :)
The sun started setting last night at around 9pm!!! Definately a weird feeling and then we went to sleep at around 9:30pm, so weird. I'm always the first up though usually around 6:30am pottering around waiting for the girls to wake up half and hour later.
Today we shall explore and most likely shop with our limited space......posting it all from Beijing along with other non-necessities that we ALL packed and are now regretting like a
2nd pair of jeans, who would have thought I would have so much hatred towards a pair of jeans and a jumper.
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