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45/405 Shota Rustaveli Street
100100
Tashkent, Uzbekistan
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Office No F-1, Safdar Mansion
Fazel-e-Haq Road, Blue Area
Islamabad, Pakistan
E-mail: tashkent@sitara.com islamabad@sitara.com
Phone (Uzbekistan): (99871) 2814148, (99871) 2814149, (99871) 2553504
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AstanaSeveral years ago Astana was a quiet provincial city with many old houses and the Ishim river, looking like a swamp covered with cane jungles. Nowadays after the capital was transferred from Almaty to Astana the city has completely changed. Formerly it was named Akmola and until the 1950s was a tiny mining town. Then Nikita Khrushchev announced the Virgin Lands scheme to turn 250,000 square kilome... read more
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AlmatyAlmaty is situated at the altitude of 600-900 meters above the sea level. Practically every city has its own symbol. For Almaty it is the Zailiysky Alatau Mountains as well as the famous apples. The Zailiysky Alatau is the northern part of the Tian-Shan mountains. It consists of a mountain chain and valleys between the mountains. It is famous for its eternal mountain glaciers, canyons, alpine mead... read more
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Aksu-Zhabagly ReserveIt was set up in 1927. For more than 70 years the mountain woods here are safe from an axe, grass from scythe and rivers from industrial pollution. Fresh greenery is all around. The Graig's Tulip is selected as the symbol of the Reserve. The whole Tian-Shan has no other places of such juniper woods as in the law-protected preservation of Aksu-Zhabagly. Quite remarkable is the canyo... read more
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BurabaiKazakhstani Switzerland is the second name given to Burabai, Kokshetau region that is in the Northern Kazakhstan. Amidst yellow scorched unending steppe you just encounter the green wall of forest. It harbours wonders: hillocks overgrown with trees, stony ridges, heaps of rocks like fairy giants and ghosts as silent as bewitched lakes. "Bura " in Kazakh stands for camel. There is an old ... read more
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TarazTaraz is one of the largest tourist centres of Kazakhstan with population of 310,000 people. The town's past as the 6th century Silk Road settlement of Taraz was discovered by archaeologists in 1938. In the 11th century it was a capital of the Karakhanid State, which also ruled Bukhara for a while. In 1220 Taraz was conquered by the hordes of Genghis-Khan and was razed to the ground. At the end of... read more
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TurkestanFounded perhaps as early as the 5th century AD, and known as Yasy till the 16th, the town was by the 12th century an important trade and religious centre, on a boundary between nomadic and agricultural societies. Later it became a northerly outpost of the Kokand khanate, falling to the Russian push of 1864. In Turkestan there is found Kazakhstan's greatest building and an important site of Mu... read more
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Tamgaly Rock Drawings (World Heritage)Situated about 163 kms out of Almaty, Tamgaly rock drawings is wonderful depiction of Human ages and migratory periods. These 5000 rock drawings are spread in an area of 90 hectares dating from 2nd millennium BC down to 20th century. We can divide the main rock drawings as follows: -Middle Bronze Age (14th – 13th BC) – Solar deities, Zoomorphic, disguised people and wide variety of animal... read more