8 hours of train for 1 building
September 8th 2014 Geo: 43.2792, 68.2498The trains take 4 hours to cover the 165km between Shymkent and Turkestan, so you can imagine they aren't Intercity 125, let alone HS1.So departing Shymkent at 7.05 am and returning at 21.11 gave me about 5 hours to explore the delights of Turkestan, the delightful bit being one building.Its the mausoleum of the first great Turkic Muslim holyman, Kozha Akhmed Yasaui. T
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