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A Kazakhstan itinerary for 10 days, with four more if you have them
A planning skeleton that groups places by base: Almaty and its mountains, Shymkent and Sairam, Astana, and the chalk country of Mangystau as …
A Kazakhstan itinerary for 5 days, built around Almaty and its mountains
Five days is enough for Almaty, the mountains directly above it and one longer trip east. This is a planning skeleton that puts places in …
A Kazakhstan itinerary for 7 days: Almaty's mountains, then Astana
This is a day-by-day planning skeleton built from our place pages. It is not a tested route. Road times, transfers and overnight stays …
A Mangystau itinerary for 3 or 5 days, planned out from Aktau
A day-by-day planning skeleton for Mangystau region in Kazakhstan's far southwest, built around chalk cliffs, rock mosques and Karagiye, the …
A South Kazakhstan itinerary from Shymkent to Turkistan and Otrar, day by day
A planning skeleton for Kazakhstan's far south: Silk Road ruins, revered mausoleums and a UNESCO site, arranged in a sensible order. …
Almaty to Bishkek and Karakol: one route through Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan
Bus 701 leaves Almaty's Sairan station five times a day for Bishkek, and bus 424 goes daily to Karakol through Kegen. Those two lines let …
An Almaty itinerary for 3, 5 or 7 days in the city and the mountains
A planning skeleton that puts Almaty's city sights, the gorges just above it and the longer trips east into a sensible order by days. Travel …
Kazakhstan itinerary: choose 5, 7, 10 or 14 days by what you can reach
One base in five days, two in seven, three in ten, four in fourteen. The country is too large to sample by road, so the number of days sets …