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May 24th 2009
Published: May 24th 2009
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In an effort to avoid my normal boring titles, I was going to title my blog “Kazakhstan is nice”, and then after a few days I was going to title it “Kazakhstan has a veneer of niceness”, but I was already sick of people making the Borat references, so I decided not to reference that film at all and instead go with the title from the Beatles song which got stuck in my head. In his book ... Read Full Entry



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Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Error. They really are just like us
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Turkistan

one of the main streets of turkistan, with an old Lada
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Turkistan

me at the entrance through the old wall, to the Mausoleum
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Turkistan

Mausoleum
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Turkistan

Mausoleum from the front. Can you see me?
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Turkistan

I think this is the second, smaller, mausoleum.
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Turkistan

the shelter about 30 km from Turkistan where maybe 20 men were living.
storm coming in over the steppestorm coming in over the steppe
storm coming in over the steppe

If you want to experience the reality of a 30-hour train ride across kazakhstan, enlarge this photo and start at it without moving for 30 hours.
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Turkistan market

in case you wondered where Turkistan is, or how to write it in Kazakh
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Turkistan market

a shoe-maker repairing a shoe



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