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Guided Walking City Tour in Almaty
Almaty, Kazakhstan
Tashkent, Uzbekistan
$110
This is an experience gift voucher. The recipient will book the experience after
they redeem the gift voucher.
Overview
Almaty presents a fascinating journey through history, showcasing its transformation from a provincial town to a modern capital. This tour includes insights into the city's architectural landmarks and environmental challenges.
- 🎤 A professional guide will provide entertaining commentary throughout the tour.
- 🏛️ Learn about Almaty's evolution through various historical contexts, including its Soviet past and independence.
- 🏠 View unique architectural sites, such as the house shaped like a string-bag and the “Stalin cake house.”
- 💧 Discover how Almaty addressed running water issues in the 20th century and sourced local seashells for construction far from any sea.
- 🌍 Discuss the region's natural disasters and the resilience of the city during challenging times.
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A City Tour in Almaty
Pickup included
Pickup included
Tour guide
Language: English
Human tour guide
Duration: 3 hours
- The proffessional guide services
- Bottled water
Meeting point
Next to the train station Zhibek Zholy
Return details
Next to the train station Zhibek Zholy
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Zhibek ZholyWe will start our walk at the train station “Zhibek Zholy” (ticket is included), the metro system is new and very special, each station has its own story to tell, and “Zhibek Zoly” logically takes us to very ancient times of the history of this land - the times of The Grate Silk way which the decoration of the station describes in quite bright artistic way.
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Ulitsa PanfilovaWe will reach the pedestrian Panfilov street with lots of pretty cafes and restaurants and find a house of the most unusual architectural style for the conservative USSR times – the building of central telegraph that truly looks like a shopping net. Right from there we will get the view of the Kazakh opera and ballet theater that represents an outstanding combination of Asian motives and European classicism.
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We will get to Kunaev street and passing few more examples of Stalin architecture and living areas of 1940-60s we will walk by the so called Gymnasium block where the buildings of the pre revolution high schools survived founded by the royal Russian government.
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AlmatyOur way continues to the oldest park of Almaty – the park of 28 Panfilovcev where we will get to see the oldest cathedral in the city that survived the most devastation earthquake of 1911, the wooden old Russian style officer club building and the ambitious monument to the victory in the 2d World War put up in soviet times.
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Zeleny BazarUpon your wish we may continue our walk towards the Green bazar – the local farmers market or go back to the original point of our tour passing on the way the Arasan bath house – quite significant complex of traditional baths constricted in 1980s.
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Guided Walking City Tour in Almaty
Almaty, Kazakhstan
Tashkent, Uzbekistan
$110
This is an experience gift voucher. The recipient will book the experience after
they redeem the gift voucher.
How it works?
01
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You choose from 10,000+ experience gifts
02
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We deliver the eVoucher or the Physical box to the recipient
03
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Recipient books the experience and creates unforgettable memories!