Located in the mountains near Almaty, a city in southeastern Kazakhstan, Medeu is the highest-elevation rink in the world. The icy surface covers about 113,000 square feet, or about two regulation ...
In the vast, central territory of Kazakhstan, where the landscape is dominated by flat and boundless steppe, the Bektau Mountains rise suddenly, as if from nowhere. The distant peaks appear volcanic ...
Kazakhstan is a huge country, the size of Western Europe, situated in Central Asia and bordering Russia and China. Made up mostly of mountains and arid steppe land, it has a population of only 19 ...
Now, over 2,000 years on Kazakhstan’s railways not only attract misty-eyed travelers looking to wind through the snow-topped mountains of Almaty or observe the immense madrassahs of Uzbekistan ...