After a few hours sleep I wake and decide to try and by a SIM card for the phone. Three hours later and I don’t know how many kilometres later I arrive back at the hotel without a SIM card as I can’t find a shop that sells them.
I have seen some interesting looking bars and restaurants and will make my way in their direction very soon. It is now I realise I haven’t had a beer since I left Beijing. That now feels a long time ago.
Almaty is so bland and nondescript that I fail to take a single photo, other than of a view from a train window of a few other train carriages!!!