Kazakhstan - feels like home

I've already been many times in Kazakhstan and for me it feels already somehow like coming home. So this time we were not exploring together, I became his tour guide.
The people here are very friendly and offering great hospitality. They still have good old traditions we sadly lost in the western countries. It would be great if we would remember some traditions and bring back to live.
Not only the people making it so good being here. Also the landscape and delicious food.
First thing we did in Almaty was leaving the town and go to the mountain area which is very close by.
We went to a place for fishing trout, after fishing you can dine at the restaurant and get your fresh caught fish without the dirty work.

Bernds fishing skills have been so bad so we decided to go to another restaurant and get some local dishes. Maybe that was much better than just having fish.

After filling up our stomach we decided to go to a museum to learn something about the Kazakh history and nature.
Bernd started arguing with the birds there which turned out not to be such a good idea since the eagle living there threatened him with his sharp claws and beak.

Luckily for Bernd he could run away quick enough and hide in a small house, he later on declared as his own.

After the museum I lead Bernd to some religious places, we keep up visiting them. First we arrived at the big mosque which was currently closed for tourism due to prayers. Also we were not lucky at the Ascension Cathedral, which was closed due to renovations. Bernd was very curious about the church since I told him that it has been built without any nails. He wanted to try to blow it away as the well known big bad wolf in the fable.

Next I lead him to the war memorial place for the soldiers who had to fight in world war one and two. I was quick enough to take a picture of Bernd in front of the ever burning torch before he did run away from a group of soldiers. It was very funny since he ran away from a statue.

Next we did was going up to Kok Tobe from where we had a great few above the town and it was even better with the blue sky and the warm sun.

Close by we met some old friends and had some good chats and started jamming. Bernd should not have tried singing, he was lucky that in real there are not always people around throwing right away rotten tomatoes at you.

Hear by I asked Bernd to make a hand stand and it took me a while to get him to do so. I only asked him so he could look at a special house there which turns the world upside down.

It feels like we did a lot of things in Almaty and actually it is true, we did not get many breaks and not much sleep but it was all the time amazing.

The next day we went to a park where almost all people of Almaty come at least once in a lifetime. No it is not the cemetery guys, it was the park of the first president and the people love to go there to take wedding pictures. There was also a couple around, but Bernd did not see them since he was in a long conversation with the president.

I hope I managed to make you curious about this wonderful place and you may also one day visit Kazakhstan especially Almaty.

We would have went to many more places and would have loved to show them to you but we wanted to keep them for now as a secret so you would come as well.

There is only one small thing I wanted to show you. It is a special squirrel living here. I had to guard Bernd when we met it so it won't eat him.