Ustyurt, Kazakhstan

Hello hello...hope you are having a nice weekend! It's a sunny one here, which compared to the previous few days feels like a blessing. Hopefully, the snow in some not so far countries, wont come to us...at least not so soon...i mean it is still just November...

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And im starting this update with an official card I received not so long ago, and it comes from a rather rare one, in particular Kazakhstan! Yay! I just love those small ID's :)))

Well, I already posted a very similar card from Ustyurt almost two years ago, which was actually my first ever received card from this country thanks to dear Jo...so in order not to repeat myself with the same info, if you want, you can read more about it here.

However, I really wanted to post this one, since it is an official card and it feels just special to have received one :) And what makes it even more special, is coz it was sent by a little girl, who is just 3 years old....of course, her mum is helping her with all the stuff, but I like it when parents initiate something like this in their children and eventually, their children, when they grow a bit older, can continue with this hobby themselves and continue exploring the world.

Im only not sure where did that stain come from...on the right side of the card...I  cant figure out if it is coffee or chocolate *blush*

And a very nice stamp....even though im not a football fan, I do find this stamp real nice! It was issued in 2006 commemorating the FIFA World Cup in Germany

Schuchye Lake, Kazakhstan

Jo sent me this card as a surprise just before she left Kazakhstan......and thanks to her, i have all my 3 Kazakhstan cards in the collection

Im still surprised to see how beautiful the Kazakh cards are. This one shows the Schuchye Lake (im still not sure if i had spelled that correctly), situated in the Northern part of the country.
The funny/odd thing is that if you go to google maps for example, it doesnt return any search results about it...on google either...it keeps giving me reference for some Kurgan region in Russia, or about some chemical weapons destruction plant. ...I wonder if there might be some mix up (Kazakhstan borders Russia after all), or from the starters im searching for the wrong thing.
Either way, the card is still a beautiful one, and of course, any clearing up about the above issue is more than welcome

the Golden eagle stamp was issued in 2008 in a set of 4 definitives under the subject of Fauna, while the other one is from a set of 8 definitives showing Astana, which is the capital and second largest city in Kazakhstan

Tamgaly Gorge, Kazakhstan

well, it may be April Fool's Day...but this this is not a joke..this is actually, indeed, a REAL update! Maybe it will be good to start with updates on the first day of the month, so that the rest of the month goes fruitful as well...though we are to judge like that and if the rest of the month is gonna be as this day has been, than id rather, more than else, oversleep the whole month, from beginning till end...
If someone dares to say that a teacher's job is easy...switch places with me for a week....if those teenage monsters dont take the Cruella de Vill out of you after day number one, i will worship you for the rest of my life!
Even my mailbox was empty today....*sob* :[.....should i mention i went to sleep at 7 am and woke up at 10 something? Should i mention that the weather outside is so crazy that even when im coming home from work, i need no jacket, even a sweater is too hot to wear? I dont know about you, but when it gets all cloudy and tough,  and hot, it affects me BIG time...and i see many other people as well..yeah..im telling you, its been hell of a day, and definitely not the kind of day i want to have at the beginning of the month

Well, another breath of fresh air...Kazakhstan! Of course, again thanks to no one else but Jo! Moreover, its a UNESCO whs!!! Woohoo!

Set around the lush Tamgaly Gorge, amidst the vast, arid Chu-Ili mountains, is a remarkable concentration of some 5,000 petroglyphs (rock carvings) dating from the second half of the second millennium BC to the beginning of the 20th century. Distributed among 48 complexes with associated settlements and burial grounds, they are testimonies to the husbandry, social organization and rituals of pastoral peoples. Human settlements in the site are often multilayered and show occupation through the ages. A huge number of ancient tombs are also to be found including stone enclosures with boxes and cists (middle and late Bronze Age), and mounds (kurgans) of stone and earth (early Iron Age to the present). The central canyon contains the densest concentration of engravings and what are believed to be altars, suggesting that these places were used for sacrificial offerings.
In the guidbooks, this place is described as a unique and spiritual place.
I hope you can see the carvings on the rocks on this card.

Great card, all in all! Thanks Jo!

Ustyurt, Kazakhstan

I know that with today's post im gonna break the rules...well, it aint some big rule disobedience....its my own rule about the way of posting cards and how i dont post cards from the same country until a certain amount of time/posts passes in between....but today i will deviate a bit from that rule, for a simple reason, coz i just feel that these cards belong together and should be posted together...they all come from The Slavic Countries to the Rest of the World RR i took part in recently, and since i have received all the cards from my group, i want to post them together, coz they form a whole.....and i want to thank everyone else in the group for making it a really enjoyable RR :)

And this RR enriched my collection for one new country!!! Which makes it country number 87! Hmmm, 100 doesnt seem THAT far away actually....maybe ill host a small celebration here when i receive it :)
And that new country is Kazakhstan!!  Im sooo glad to have received this one...coz once i had received it, i realized how ignorant i had been about this place in general and knew scarcely anything about it...and moreover i was actually under the influence of some general stereotype about it....hell, was i WRONG!!! And im really sorry about that....but there is always a chance for retaking the exam...and here is mine :)

I was stunned at how beautiful this place is! Its just amazing!! And has such great postcards that i even envy them :)
The card shows Ustyurt, which is a desert plateau, and is 1/2 in Kazakhstan and 1/2 in Uzbekistan between the Aral and Caspian Sea.
It extends roughly 200,000 km², with an average elevation of 150 meters, and consists primarily of stony desert. The plateau’s semi-nomadic population raises sheep, goats and camels.
Well, even though this place belongs to both Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, ill label it as Kazakhstan only, first of all coz it came from there, second, the back of the card says Kazakhstan, third, Jo, the sender, she lives in Kazakhstan, so i dont find it appropriate to label it under Uzbekistan....though it would be very nice to have a card from there too :)
Thank you Jo a REAL lot for adding this splendid cardto my collection!!!