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Outside Almaty

16/08/16 13:28 Filed in: Kazakhstan
Affen a few days and a lovely night out with Joseph and Yeldos in Almaty I went to the close-by mountains. First, the Medeo Ice Skating arena and then the ILE Nationalpark at about 3200m.

The Ice Skating arena is actually a very old one - 1951 - from the Soviet Area and about 1700m above sea level. Many Ice Speed Skating records were established here. However, the glory times are over since the late eighties and now its is only used as a Bandy Game arena.

Next, I went cup the cableway at roughly 3200m and had a few hours to stroll around. The glaciers around are shrinking as well and now a long way from the last station, but you still can see a glimpse of them .


And finally i set up a nice camp site. L8723302L8723337L8723329L8723346IMG_4150IMG_4193IMG_4173IMG_4229IMG_4216IMG_4222

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