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 to poor planning, long distances between destinations, a reduced visa stay, and a nightmare getting tickets for planes and trains. So the new capital Astana and the Soviet nuclear testing area of the Polygon were scratched. Spoke to some ex-pats and they told us that Kazakhstan has some incredible landscapes but as a tourist it is hard to explore independently, especially if you only have 15 days. Flight
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