Pictures from the past several weekends. First bunch is from Big Almaty Lake. The lake is about 15 miles to our south at 8000 ft (2500 m). Sergey took us one afternoon after church. The lake serves as the main source of Almaty's drinking water. It also helps with avalanche and flood control.
The second bunch of photos is from downtown Almaty. We went shopping for some souvenirs at Zoom. Zoom is a department store building with several hundred vendors inside. From there, we went to the Zaloni Bazaar looking for a mop.
Last bunch is from Chimbulak - Almaty's ski area about 30 minutes to the south of downtown. The base ski area sits at 8100 ft (2300 m). We hiked up one area to almost 12,000 ft - where the oxygen molecules are scarce!
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