The first thing we set out to do was find a tour agency willing to provide us with a "Letter of Invitation", which we need to get a visa for Uzbekistan. The first company we tried would only help if we booked accommodation or a tour through them, which would have been way out of our minuscule budget. We have been trying to go through a company online, but keep hitting problem after problem mainly to do with how we transfer money from our NZ bank account to one in Latvia - we've never heard of this IBAN code thingy before!! How we have managed to travel halfway across the world, but can't make a $100 transfer is beyond us!
We wandered through the park and through a pedestrian street full of markets to the internet where we spent 2 hours trying to get the info we needed and failing dismally. Slightly disappointed we headed out for lunch - Liv had something new, while Adam stuck to the tried and true doner kebab!
Later on we went to an Ecotourism agency hoping to get some information and book a hiking tour with them in a National Park a days travel away from Almaty. Here we were met with half answers, huge prices and left with little more information than we arrived with ... What happened to public buses leading everywhere like they do in China!??!
This evening we made it to the famous Zelony Bazaar (half-closed nonetheless!), where we found it stocked with items we had just left in China, and couldn't find something "Kazakh" that we could buy as a momento - oh well, we've still got at least another week in the country. In the bazaar we happened to come across Muhammad, who offered to help us buy some train tickets within the next few days though he's not always the most reliable.
Here we are now, thinking about dinner, on the computer again trying to find more information, but still getting absolutely F'n nowhere!!!
Adlibing it info-less.
We wandered through the park and through a pedestrian street full of markets to the internet where we spent 2 hours trying to get the info we needed and failing dismally. Slightly disappointed we headed out for lunch - Liv had something new, while Adam stuck to the tried and true doner kebab!
Later on we went to an Ecotourism agency hoping to get some information and book a hiking tour with them in a National Park a days travel away from Almaty. Here we were met with half answers, huge prices and left with little more information than we arrived with ... What happened to public buses leading everywhere like they do in China!??!
This evening we made it to the famous Zelony Bazaar (half-closed nonetheless!), where we found it stocked with items we had just left in China, and couldn't find something "Kazakh" that we could buy as a momento - oh well, we've still got at least another week in the country. In the bazaar we happened to come across Muhammad, who offered to help us buy some train tickets within the next few days though he's not always the most reliable.Here we are now, thinking about dinner, on the computer again trying to find more information, but still getting absolutely F'n nowhere!!!
Adlibing it info-less.
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