Saturday, August 18, 2012

Day 48: Of Pyramids, New Friends, and Pesky Mosquitoes



This evening, we met up for another city bike tour. As one new friend aptly put it, "Astana is likeable when it is bikeable." Never mind the obvious question about how often a city located on the Central Asian Steppe might be bikeable.

We took a great route past the river and near the Palace of Peace and Reconciliation (the Pyramid). We laughed together as some of us rode through fountains and we discovered some new cool spots for hanging out in the capital. And we escaped (although not unscathed) just as the mosquitoes began to conquer the evening.











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