Last shots 22 April 2019

After visiting Kok-Tobe for the afternoon, we left at around 5:30 pm and walked  to CRUDO Steakhouse for relax.  I ordered ginger honey herb tea, an Noel order mocha

Only a few tables of guests

Coconut milk curry soup coming with rice

stewed ox tongue with eggplant cubes, and fried potato chips

After this relaxing dinner, we went back to Iris Hotel to get back our luggage and asked the front desk to call a taxi for us to the airport.  It seemed that he used a local mobile app similar to Uber and got us a "taxi" at a very cheap price, 1,350 Tenge.  He was very responsible to record the driver's name and car plate.  I turned on the GPS of my mobile phone to follow our track.  It took only half an hour to reach the airport.

Noel was kept as she could not pass the sensor test.  She was led to an exam room for further scanning by x-ray.  Finally, she could be released and we then proceeded to stay at the waiting area for about 3 hours before boarding.

We could view the sunrise on the plane, but we did not sit on the right side to see the rising sun.

First time to view the HK-Zhuhai-Macao bridge in the air

Mini zoo 22 April 2019

There is a mini zoo on the hill top

White peacock

they like to climb up on branches

Silver pheasant

Chinese imperial pheasant

Equus ferus × asinus

llama

There is a special rooms we could go inside to pet the animals.  It is decorated as the Noah Ark.

Interesting spots on Kok-Tobe 22 April 2019

Inverted house

Detailed internal display

Inverted ticket office for the wheel

It runs on the fast track we just saw on the gondola

Building houses 3 restaurants but we had no time to explore

1000 Tenge for a photo, with wear on costume and golden eagle on hand

Golden eagle is the national bird of Kazakhstan.  It wears mask to cover its eyes.  They told me that if the mask was taken off, it would start hunting

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