Not quite exciting as Peshawar, but still quite interesting, here are some photos of the older Atyrau, about 5 minutes walk from the hotel. In fact you can walk from one side of the town to the other in about an hour. I believe these sort of houses are rapidly being knocked down to make way for more modern buildings.
Some are being done up, but mostly there are still the old dust streets of Atyrau, Some of the old decorations on the houses are lovely, but a lot is falling down
Water being collected from a stand pipe. There is clearly some poverty here, but not to a great level. Very little begging on the streets
I found the war memorial which is great fun. Loads of brides having their photos taken against second world war hardware.
I rather liked the plane the kids can climb all over
I was impressed with the entrance with still the USSR emblem and wonderful mural:
Next door is an old fun fair. Not quite Disney, totally deserted at 7pm on a Saturday, but some of the rides were operating
Was all quite spooky. Admittedly the roller coaster did seem abandoned.
Posted at 09:16 am by Matt-Rowena
