One year a few residents of our apartment complex decided to organize a sort of stone soup Christmas. They put up notices asking people to decorate one of the fir trees in our yard. The response was pretty good. This was my favorite ornament, but it appears to have been banged up pretty good. I wonder if that’s why it was donated to the communal Christmas tree.
A show of traditional Kazakh horse riding tricks for the anniversary celebration of Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan. Traditionally these skills were learned by young …
A statue of a traditional Kazakh woman holding the dombro, a two-string lyre and the ancestor of the guitar. Sitting by the banks of the …
A close up of a statue of a Kazakh warrior put up for the Astana Day celebrations outside Capital Park. I liked the way his …
As part of the Astana Day celebrations of 2009, they set up a music shop inside a yurt. Fascinating to see the variations in designs …
Khan Shatyr is the new architectural oddity of Astana that just opened recently. It’s yet another shopping mall to open here. However the form is very beautiful and it is literally a tent, rather than a building apparently. I was lucky enough to capture some workers climbing up the side, to clean it or fix it, I don’t know.
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