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I have no idea what it looks like edit: The Caucasus, too. NUR-SULTAN ("ASTANA," UNTIL 2019/3/20), AKMOLA REGION, KAZAKHSTAN: Looks dope! I like the bombastic 'dictatorship' architecture. Accretionist fucked around with this message at 21:12 on Nov 8, 2019 |
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It’s nice, I like.
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MY WAIFE
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# ? Nov 6, 2019 00:02 |
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You will never get this
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I was in Bucharest last week and it loving owned. Not exactly central Asia but it's nearby. The food was great, the populace seemed attractive and happy* *unless they were behind the wheel of a vehicle - and holy poo poo, let me tell you - do not get in a car with one of them I also took a bunch of pictures of old-town Bucharest. It's pretty nuts, it's a city within a city. Old-town is a 2 square mile block of the city that is inaccessible by car where you have to walk all of these old windy cobblestone roads. It's populated by street vendors, attractive women begging you to eat at whichever cafe they work for (it gets old fast), strip clubs, bizarre shops and more. You could easily spend a month there and not see all that it has to offer. This picture is my favorite: Not too shabby for a phone snapshot.
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^^Very nice! Article: 'Norman said the president wants a pyramid': how starchitects built Astana From: The Guardian Date: 2017 OCT 17 quote:... PHOTO JOURNAL FROM SOLO-BICYCLIST, KAZAKHSTAN: Source: Full Album quote:Time to look for a camping spot. quote:Found. What followed were 2 days in rain, and I took no pictures. I also had to drink all kinds of bad water, since there were water holes for cattle. quote:I was happy to head towards a village I've spotted on the map. I was so disappointed, that it turned out to be a complete ghost town. Apperently an earthquake had destroyed it. quote:Hurray! After some kilometers, the whole village was rebuilt by the government. Every house looked the same. It was difficult to find the shop. I asked people and they told me in russian, how many houses I had to pass. Kind of ackward to walk to open the unlocked door, and walk into a random home in Kazhstan. After looking into some empty rooms, I finally found the room with the store. I stocked up pretty good, because the next section would not be populated. quote:The straighted road I've ever been on. Thank good I had a good audiobook. Article: Kazakhstan's leader Nursultan Nazarbayev resigns From: Al-Jazeera Date: 2019 MAR 19 quote:Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev has abruptly announced his resignation 29 years after taking office.
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Giant_Pupils posted:I was in Bucharest last week and it loving owned. Not exactly central Asia but it's nearby. No it isn't wtf lol. Go post in the China thread about visiting Kabul or something next.
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ILE-ALATAU NATIONAL PARK, ALMATY REGION, KAZAKHSTAN:
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Giant_Pupils posted:I was in Bucharest last week and it loving owned. Not exactly central Asia but it's nearby. It's about as near Kazakhstan as Italy is near Ethiopia
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I know everyones here talking about their vacations in this Morocco.jpg thread, but I was just in London last week and thought I might be able to contribute.
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Grape posted:No it isn't wtf lol. It borders Ukraine and I liked the picture. C'mon dude. Sorry, I know I'm taking liberties here but it's the closest I have ever gotten and the culture was absolutely unique. Apologies if it doesn't belong here. Frank Frank fucked around with this message at 00:32 on Nov 6, 2019 |
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Giant_Pupils posted:It borders Ukraine and I liked the picture. C'mon dude. It's ok. Make a thread about Bucharest. It's a rad place.
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Giant_Pupils posted:It borders Ukraine and I liked the picture. C'mon dude. Ukraine also isn't in Central Asia lol.
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Ukraine is Eastern Europe. Do they sell maps in old town?
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Giant_Pupils posted:It borders Ukraine and I liked the picture. C'mon dude. im glad u had fun
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This controversy is dividing us like the Trans-Ili Alatau range of the Tian Shan mountains divides Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. ALMATY REGION, KAZAKHSTAN:
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ALMATY (THE "BIG APPLE"), ALMATY REGION, KAZAKHSTAN: During temperature inversion, trapped smog: Accretionist fucked around with this message at 00:53 on Nov 6, 2019 |
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Soviet Union kind of hosed over Central Asia big time.
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looks like central asia's over there just minding its own business and looking cool. big ups
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cotton.jpg
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Ratjaculation posted:cotton.jpg
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GolfHole posted:im glad u had fun It owned. As a big goofy American, I have never felt more welcome. I apologize for hijacking this thread. It’s a very cool place and I hope I can return someday.
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Ratjaculation posted:cotton.jpg Also the project to divert the rivers for irrigation was very poorly funded and managed, ending up in much of the water evaporating or otherwise leaking into the soil along the way IIRC meaning that the actual irrigation project was largely a failure. Then there's the nuclear testing and lots of environmentally destructive industries and resource operations carried out on the cheap with minimal oversight and little regard for the local population or the environment.
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PAVLODAR, PAVLODAR REGION, KAZAKHSTAN: BAYANUL NATIONAL PARK, PAVLODAR REGION, KAZAKHSTAN: TURKISTAN REGION, KAZAKHSTAN: TEMIRTAU, KARAGANDA REGION, KAZAKHSTAN: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVViLyt15jA
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Accretionist posted:During temperature inversion, trapped smog: I've seen something like that in Santiago, Chile (or at least it looked similar). The mountain ranges on all sides essentially creates a bowl where smog just continually lurks like some sort of evil soup. Going up the elevator of a large building you'll cross right through that barrier and be totally amazed that you were just in that disgusting morass.
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*heavy Borat accent* Nice thread!
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# ? Nov 6, 2019 01:28 |
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But can the US invade them for oil is the real question.
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ABANDONED OBSERVATORY, ALMATY REGION, KAZAKHSTAN:
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"If you we're in Tajikistan you'd be home by now!"
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I can get down with this funky poo poo you're throwing down, OP. Give me some more. Let's get wrecked on Central Asia.
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My favorite part of the Aral sea excerpt from portmanteau.comquote:The disappearance of the lake was no surprise to the Soviets; they expected it to happen long before. As early as 1964, Aleksandr Asarin at the Hydroproject Institute pointed out that the lake was doomed, explaining, "It was part of the five-year plans, approved by the council of ministers and the Politburo. Nobody on a lower level would dare to say a word contradicting those plans, even if it was the fate of the Aral Sea."
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Ez8 posted:I can get down with this funky poo poo you're throwing down, OP. Give me some more. Let's get wrecked on Central Asia. It's a great outlet for being too poor to travel! On that note... KARAGANDA, KARAGANDA REGION, KAZAKHSTAN: -59C/-72.4F, high humidity from burst pipe:
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Giant_Pupils posted:I was in Bucharest last week and it loving owned. Not exactly central Asia but it's nearby. Are you confusing it with Bukhara? I was there for a distant relative's wedding a few years back. Well the wedding was in Tashkent, but whatever. I seem to be missing most of the photos from Bukhara and Samarkand but here are a few I've got on this laptop. Tashkent is mostly lovely depressing Soviet apartment blocks (since everything else got wrecked in a massive an earthquake) but Samarkand is more interesting and Bukhara has a really cute old town. Unfortunately didn't have much time to get out of the cities, there is some awesome nature stuff too.
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*Borat Voice* MY WIFE
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Since Borat has come up multiple times and there was that Bucharest post (I've also been to Romania, though I was in the north, which had good nature and depressing towns, including one where all the Romani had been forced into a walled compound), it's kind of worth noting that that actually establishes a connection between Central Asia and Romania since the Kazakhstan scenes in the Borat movie were actually filmed in a Romanian village.
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Randarkman posted:Since Borat has come up multiple times and there was that Bucharest post (I've also been to Romania, though I was in the north, which had good nature and depressing towns, including one where all the Romani had been forced into a walled compound), it's kind of worth noting that that actually establishes a connection between Central Asia and Romania since the Kazakhstan scenes in the Borat movie were actually filmed in a Romanian village. no dude youre just supposed to quote borat
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zaepg posted:"If you we're in Tajikistan you'd be home by now!" TAJIKISTAN: PRESIDENTIAL PALACE, DUSHANBE, TAJIKISTAN: NATIONAL LIBRARY, DUSHANBE, TAJIKISTAN: MINISTRY OF TAX, DUSHANBE, TAJIKISTAN: STATUE OF ISMA'IL IBN AHMAD, DUSHANBE, TAJIKISTAN: DUSHANBE & VICINITY, TAJIKISTAN:
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