Kazakhstan

So, the past few days have been filled with a 10 hr. sleeper train, a 10 hr drive north and a flight back to Almaty. The coutnry is so interesting, it is a huge coutnry and the cities are so spread out with nothing between them. It clearly is a cuntry hurt, yet helped by the fall of the USSR. In one city in Saran we saw a former apartment complex home to 25,000 people that was now completely empty, and everything that could have been burned was burned, just empty concret buildings remain.

Kazakhstan has over 2200 mosques and only 40 prayer houses (churches). They don't call them churches because of the Russian Orthodox church. The people here are also some of the most hospitable people I have ever encoutnered as well. We have two more days here of filming different parts of life here before we begin our journey home.

Interesting highlights:
1. Ate horse the other night (good)
2. Washed it down with horse milk (not good, very sour)
3. Have had multiple men offer their daughters to us
4. Shared a 10 minute sermon at a church, and a youth conference
5. Went to the mountains where we felt like we were in the Sound of Music
6. Walked streets that felt like Fiddler on the Roof
7. Have spoken with many Babushka's (grandmother's) straight out of Fiddler on the Roof
8. Every truck and bus is straight out of any Soviet Russia movie
9. Have been told not to film in public places 4 times now

Peace