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  1. Jos Stratford

    Kazakhstan birding

    Yes, not this this year. Travel should get easier and easier and I'll now ait til next year, hopefully car rent will be easier then as (see below) I think it helps particularly for the Pallas's Sandgrouse. If you prefer independent travel, all are easy (ish) to do without a guide or expensive...
  2. Jos Stratford

    Kazakhstan birding

    Yes, and no! Everything was planned and I departed - the flight left on time, but I had a connecting flight in Riga. First the onward flight was delayed, then without explanation, Air Baltic suddenly announced it was cancelled. Several hours later, now way past midnight, it was clear there...
  3. Jos Stratford

    Kazakhstan birding

    Well, found the ways to do the Tien Shen independently - a taxi from the airport to the beginning of the track that leads to Big Almaty Lake and thereafter up to the observatory is very reasonably priced, it even will stop at a supermarket on the way. The guy then gives me a map and points me...
  4. Jos Stratford

    Kazakhstan birding

    Excellent, sounds like my cup of tea. Few more days pondering and I can see myself buying a ticket.
  5. Jos Stratford

    Kazakhstan birding

    Ideas beginning to float around my head for a little jaunt to this fabulous corner of the globe, quite fancying the Tien Shan specias, such as Güldenstädt's and Eversmann’s Redstart, etc, even another look at Ibisbills and Azure Tits. Plus of course all the steppe stuff. Reasonable amounts of...
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