Final photos from Kazakhstan
Pitchers of water for washing outside toilet at Uzbekistan/Kazakhstan border
Uighur couple from far eastern Kazakhstan. Ron met them when they were all waiting in Shymkent for the overnight bus to Almaty. She is a retired English teacher and he is a doctor. They have four children, all grown up and married with children. The three daughters are all teachers of languages: English, Russian and I think French was the third. The son is a businessman in construction. They had planned on traveling from their village to Andijon, Uzbekistan, to visit her brother for his 68th birthday, but at the Uzbekistan border were turned away; the border was closed was closed for 10 days because of the flu. So they had turned around and were heading back home.
Snow and ice on Almaty street in mid-November, the day before Ron returned home
Pitchers of water for washing outside toilet at Uzbekistan/Kazakhstan border
Uighur couple from far eastern Kazakhstan. Ron met them when they were all waiting in Shymkent for the overnight bus to Almaty. She is a retired English teacher and he is a doctor. They have four children, all grown up and married with children. The three daughters are all teachers of languages: English, Russian and I think French was the third. The son is a businessman in construction. They had planned on traveling from their village to Andijon, Uzbekistan, to visit her brother for his 68th birthday, but at the Uzbekistan border were turned away; the border was closed was closed for 10 days because of the flu. So they had turned around and were heading back home.
Snow and ice on Almaty street in mid-November, the day before Ron returned home