Category: Photo of the Day

The rock Burytastagan is quite a feature in the super flat steppe near Aksuat in Kazakhstan. But is it a meteorite from space?

Did you know that the wild kulans, which live in large herds in the Altyn-Emel National Park, were extinct in Kazakhstan for a while?

Aidyn Aimbetov is the last Kazakh cosmonaut who went to space. We had the luck to meet him at the “Tage der Raumfahrt” in Neubrandenburg.

Do you know that Shymkent is the chess capital of Kazakhstan and many citizens love to play this old board game?

The Greater Flamingos are migratory birds and flying every year from west to central Kazakhstan.

The cranes are gone and the construction work on the Grand Mosque of Shymkent is entering the final phase.

The Barskoon Valley in Kyrgyzstan has a special connection with space. The first man in space made his first hiking tour after his flight in this valley.

The electric locomotive VL80-S was built between 1979 and 1994 in the Soviet Union but it is still a important part of Kazakhstan’s national railway.

The tree-lined Charyn River, with its cold fresh water, meanders as a blue ribbon with green edges through the sun-scorched brown steppe.