Diverse experiences await travelers in Kazakstan
China DailyA view from a hotel window in Turkistan, a city in south of Kazakhstan. RENQI/CHINA DAILY Though once secluded, even inaccessible, Kazakhstan today welcomes intrepid travelers with open arms. The country is one of the most economically advanced in Central Asia, thanks to its abundant oil reserves and other valuable minerals. On top of that, singular experiences include the Baikonur Cosmodrome, the Semipalatinsk Atomic Test Site, the landscapes of Mangystau, the balbal of the steppe, glitzy Astana and the magnificent Altai. If history and politics are your main interests, Kazakhstan is a captivating choice as a country with a prominent Soviet legacy, massive industrialization and subsequent ghost towns, space launches and atomic bomb tests, gulags and banished Russian intellectuals like Dostoyevski, Solzhenitsyn, Eisenstein and Trotsky.
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Diverse experiences await travelers in Kazakstan
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