Kazakhstan Trip….

So I finally get back into the swing of writing fairly regularly on my blog again and guess what… I get shipped off somewhere again for a few weeks with work.  Now which sunny, fabulous place do they send me to this time? Australia? No. Hawaii? No. Paris? No. Kazakhstan, err yes! That might sound negative but it ACTUALLY is a place I’ve wanted to visit with work – the people and culture will be so different to my own, and who can resist visiting a country that prizes horse meat higher than any other meat?!

The downside of the trip is the location in Kazakhstan. I’ll pretty much be flying straight to Uralsk (via Moscow airport) and then very quickly transported to the small industrial town of Aksai where I’ll be spending all my time – approximately 2 or 3 weeks; which basically means that I won’t get to see Almaty or Astana, the two cities that I would really like to visit one day. I don’t know a great deal about Aksai - but I do know that facilities are going to be pretty basic. I will be staying on a ‘camp’ that has been built to house the many expats out there, which is guarded by security staff and you need a permit to enter. There are supposed to be a handful of bars, perhaps 2 restaurants and very little else to do aside from work!

But anyway, who am I to complain? I’ve already been to Quito and Houston with work, so I guess I have to take the rough with the smooth; and who knows, it could be my best trip yet!

Keep your eyes posted for what I am sure will be some ‘interesting’ posts when I get back in early June!