Hi all! As Kazakhstan has been a place I’ve been writing about of late, I thought I would share my old video I shot in 2011 (and edited a couple of years later) in this curious destination. I apologise for not being very steady on the old camera, it’s an ongoing battle for me, but it is a really interesting video. If I was making it today I would have included captions as well as my commentary gets interrupted by wind quite a bit.
Nevertheless I re-watched it before popping it here and I thought it was really interesting. You get a sense of the open spaces, and also the planning that went into Astana, now called ‘Nursultan’. The Palace of Independence in 2011 housed a miniature model of the entire city and a public official talks to me about it in the video, which gives a bit of insight I might now have otherwise had.
The video also covers my day trip to Medea, where the Asian Winter Games were once held, just outside Almaty, as well as Almaty itself and Semey and the voyages between the cities I visited. Please do enjoy!
Thanks for popping by today – May the Journey Never End!
Andy's World Journeys 
Very interesting, a curious place! That poor bride wrangling a small boy, I wonder where they are now. Hopefully living happy lives somewhere!
hahah I’m sure they both are!! Thanks for commenting .
Thank you for the video, it gives an idea of life in Kazakhstan. Astana is interesting for its modernity, very unique.
Thanks for watching sir means a lot!
The former soviets states in central Asia are very different from places I’ve been. Thanks for the look!
My pleasure thanks!
That woman playing all these different instruments is amazing. She is so skilled. Astana looks nice, the buildings are really interesting and that sun set must have looked incredible. Even seeing it in the video was great, I bet it looked 100times better in real life.
it would look better in proper HD as well! Thanks for watching!