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Eco-friendly website Environmental Graffiti has an interesting story on their site today that details some of the top cargo ship graveyards from around the world. The article also includes some amazing photos of the rusted out shells of former cargo and cruise ships that ...International CouchSurfing Day: Do you have a couch lined up?
Ten years ago on June 12, CouchSurfing was born--or rather CouchSurfing.com was registered as a domain name and sleeping on the couch of people you just met became an organized system. More than just a way to hook people up with a free place to call it a night, CouchSurfing ...Keep busy with 44 travel ideas
If the entire world is too much from which to choose, take a look at The 44 Places to Go in 2009 suggested by the New York Times. Some are obvious, such as Reykjavik, which was been on everyone's mind 2008. Others are easy, including Washington D.C. Our nation's capital has ...Amazing Race 13, recap 9: Russians don't laugh at you, they laugh with you
With Terence & Sarah eliminated, and Starr & Nick coming in 1st four times in a row, it was any one of the team's game during episode 9 of the Amazing Race 13. As the teams headed off to Moscow, Russia from Almaty, Kazakhstan, I was curious what would trip up Nick ...Amazing Race 13 recap 8: Kazakhstan makes Bizarre Foods look tame
India was easy compared to Kazakhstan--sort of. This week's Amazing Race 13 was a glance into some of the more unusual aspects of Kazakh culture. As teams sped through the streets of Almaty, even though much of the city looked western and urban with architecture that ..."Let's build a city... there!" The world's 4 least impressive planned capitals
Cities tend to develop the way living organisms do-- they begin their lives as small and simple creatures, they eventually flower into maturity, and some occasionally decay and die out. Cities are located where they are-- Paris is on the Seine, Sydney is on the Pacific ...New York cigarettes to cost 9 dollars a pack. In Kazkhstan, the price increases to 32 cents.
Smokers in New York already face some of the highest prices for cigarettes in the country. But last Wednesday, the New York legislature approved a $1.25 tax hike on cigarettes, meaning that taxes alone on a pack in New York are a whopping $4.25, not including a roughly 8% ...Keeping the 'Stans Straight, part 2: Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan
Capital: Astana, moved from Almaty in 1997
Location: Central Asia, northwest of China and south of Russia; the ninth-largest country in the world
In a nutshell: This oil-rich ex-Soviet republic has been experiencing an economic boom recently, thanks to its ...Borat make new book
We all laughed at Borat in the theaters, but does his humor translate onto the written page? The answer is a definitive, sort of. Our favorite Kazakh journalist has left the big screen behind and has recently released his first foray into the world of literature: Borat: ...One for the Road: Realities of Foreign Service Life
Jessica Hayden had been married less than 3 months when she moved half way around the world with her new husband, and soon found herself in a tent in the middle of Kyrgyzstan, heavily sedated on pain killers and hooked up to a WWII style medical contraption. It sounds like ...New Borat book
You've seen the movie; now it's time to read the book.
Just in time for Christmas, our favorite Borat has gone and penned a travel guide to his home country of Kazakhstan as well as an accompanying guide to the USA.
As you might expect, Borat: Touristic Guidings to ...Kazakhstan Replacing Cyrillic Alphabet with Latin One
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One of the biggest challenges of traveling through the former Soviet Union is tying to decipher the Cyrillic alphabet. The unnerving thing is that it shares many letters with the Latin alphabet, yet they are pronounced very differently. Like a "B" having a "V" sound, for ...Kazakhstan: A Lot of Land, Few Beaches
When I read about the number of visitors to France equaling the number of people who live there, I also read that Kazakhstan is the largest landlocked country in the world. Russia and China take up a good portion of its borders. This map gives details of the geography and ...Kazakhstan's New Glass Pyramid Opera House: Let's Hope They Don't Hit the High Notes
Sir Norman Foster, the acclaimed British architect, recently completed an amazing giant glass pyramid opera house in Astana, Kazakhstan. Beautiful, large, and magnificent, the opera house actually lives up to its name: the Palace of Peace and Reconciliation. Foster's latest ...Borat Review: Finally!
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After posting so many times about Borat, I thought I'd get around to writing a short review having finally seen the film.
In a nutshell: it's funny, go see it.
I don't want to focus on the cinematic aspects of the film--that's not the aim of this website. I do, however, ...Eating Horse
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I've had my share of suspect meat throughout my travels and have learned to live by the Mystery Meat Rule of Ignorance: Don't ask and assume it is cow.
I ate a lot of meat in Kazakhstan a few years ago and for the most part, enjoyed whatever I found on my plate. Sure, the ...The True Kazakhstan (Despite what Borat Says)
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With all the press that Borat has been receiving about his new movie, not a single article I've come across has spent the time to accurately counter the misconceptions that Borat conveys about his "home" country of Kazakhstan.
My guess is that few film critics have ever ...Don't Go, Borat!
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Borat is our favorite culturally insensitive, pseudo-spokesman for a little-known country who doesn't want a culturally insensitive pseudo-spokesman yapping his mouth off and otherwise belittling them.
The country of Kazakhstan, which Borat lampoons, has made their dislike ...Red Corner: Bizarre Kazakh Pyramid Completed
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Megalomania has brought us some very bizarre architecture throughout history. It's nice to know that the dictator of Kazakhstan is keeping up the tradition.
Visitors to the capital of Astana, can now revel in a freaky new pyramid commissioned by President Nursultan ...Red Corner: Balancing Out Borat
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Having posted a fair amount about Kazakhstan's most despised and erroneous ambassador, Borat, we here at Gadling realize it is important to maintain some editorial balance, and therefore feel obligated to direct you towards a more responsible representative which better ...
