Aktau

Aktau - Where fun comes to die

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May 14th 2016
<em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Day 113 Tuesday 10th May 2016 – Almaty to Aktau We are off to the city of Aktau on the other side of Kazakhstan today and we had the option of 70 hours on a train or 3 hours in a plane, with odds like that the train option really didn’t have a chance of winning. Aktau will unfortunately be our last city in Kazakhstan due ... read more

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Native Kazakhs, a mix of Turkic and Mongol nomadic tribes who migrated into the region in the 13th century, were rarely united as a single nation. The area was conquered by Russia in the 18th century and Kazakhstan became a Soviet Republic in 1936. D... ... read more