My first experience with a Soviet sanatorium was back in Sukhum, Abkhazia in 2013. I had booked a place on Couchsurfing to stay that ran me $1 (free accommodation was illegal at the time in Abkhazia so the hosts were mandated to charge something) and upon my arrival in the city, I was unable to […]
Category Archives: Central Asia
If you were to ask me what my favorite region in the world is, I would likely shout out ‘Central Asia’ every time, even though my travels in the region have focused on solely two countries. The mountains, people, food, and hospitality keep me coming back. This is a guide of the best places to […]
Have you ever passed through a place on your travels and left not really knowing too much more about the city than you did prior to visiting? As most travelers do a little research prior to taking off somewhere, I’m guilty of not making such efforts. I may research the first location a little, but […]
Believe it or not, I traveled back to Astana, Kazakhstan. I said it would never happen after my last trip there and I was pretty insistent on that for years. But times changed, I grew up, and I came to realize that there were probably things to do in Astana these days that didn’t exist […]
I have spent at least six months of my life in Almaty, Kazakhstan. It is kind of strange to think about that, but I visit Almaty a lot or I have actually previously called the city home for a while. I get an email after email asking questions about my tips for visiting Almaty and […]
I arrived back in Almaty, Kazakhstan in early May for two months with the mindset that I was going to work, work, work and travel around Central Asia very little.. The trip I had planned with a friend for journalists and photographers out to the western part of Kazakhstan had fallen through at the hands […]