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A Reader in Kyrgyzstan but none from Kazakhstan

Thomo’s Hole has a reader in Kyrgyzstan finally but still none from Kazakhstan. I remember my trip to Kazakhstan fondly (see Kazakhstan – First Impressions – First Contact). I would like to visit Kyrgyzstan (and Uzbekistan and Tajikistan for that matter as well) but I cannot see a way to get there in the immediate [...]

Gallery Updates

I have been madly updating the gallery over the past few days with Mark I versions in place for:

Mongolian Landscapes Places Visited

I have also uploaded all the museum photos from the old gallery. These are covering the Choson, Three Kingdom and Koryo Periods of Korean History as well as the Thai Airforce Museum. [...]

Happy New Year to My Kazakh Friends

I forgot – over a week ago it was New Year for the Kazakh folks that live in the west of Mongolia (and, I guess, in Uigur A.R. in China and in Kazakhstan). The New Year holiday in the west of Mongolia is known as Nauriz Kozhe (I think) and it occurs in March each [...]

General Ramblings

It has been a couple of weeks. I have been in Kazakhstan and I could not get access to this personal space (or indeed, MSN). What a lovely place though. I am in love with the mountains that sit there behind Almaty – flat one way, glorious snow covered mountains the other.

I have also [...]

Kazakhstan

Well it is happening. Approval and everything has come through so, gentle reader, Thomo is off to Kazakhstan this Thursday. Leaving Seoul in the afternoon and getting into Almaty in the early evening. I shall spend two weeks there. 

This will be cool for a couple of reasons. First is that I think that Kazakhstan [...]