Actually, we spent only 3 days in Almaty and could visit only few places. Zhibek Zholy is the subway station we visited twice
Almaty Metro tour
Almaty Metro (Kazakh: Алматы метрополитені, Almaty Metropolıteni; Russian: Алматинский метрополитен) is a rapid transit/metro system in Almaty, Kazakhstan. The first line of the system was opened on 1 December 2011, after more than 23 years of construction. A 2.9-kilometre (1.8 mi), two-station extension of the Metro to Moskva station opened on 18 April 2015.
The metro system became the second metro in Central Asia (another in Tashkent), and the sixteenth metro in the former Soviet Union region.
Construction of the Almaty Metro began on 7 September 1988 when Kazakhstan was still part of the Soviet Union. However, following the collapse of the Soviet Union, funds from Moscow dried up and the new Kazakhstani government was unable to continue construction. Efforts to preserve the already-completed work were made, but the high cost led to the accumulation of large debts to construction workers.
In 2003, the government of Kazakhstan laid out a new development initiative which included government funds for continued construction on the metro. By 2005, the construction programme, now under the control of President Nursultan Nazarbayev, received commitments for 72 million tenge for 2006–2008.
In May 2007, the tunnel between the Almaly and Abai stations was completed on the night of 24/25 May. The tunnel is 1.271 kilometres (0.790 mi) in length. At the connection point, it is situated at a depth of 73 metres (240 ft). The tunnel from Abai towards Baikonur (1.526 kilometres (0.948 mi) in length) was finished at the end of 2007. Another tunnel on this span was finished in the middle of 2008.
The construction cost on the first line is estimated at 101 billion tenge ($1 billion USD).
The first section of the Metro opened 1 December 2011, operating on 8.54 kilometres (5.3 mi) of route and serving seven stations (four deep-level stations and three sub-surface stations).
Construction on the expansion to Sairan and Moskva stations started in 2011, and opened for service on 18 April 2015, adding another 2.9 kilometres (1.8 mi) of route and two stations to the Metro.
As of April 2015, the Almaty Metro has a route length of 11.3 kilometres (7.0 mi) and serves nine stations. The Almaty Metro owns seven four-car trainsets.
12.4 million passengers used the metro in 2016, an increase on the 10.6 million who used it in 2015. Daily passenger numbers varied from 17,000 per day on Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays to up to 45,000 people who used it on working days.
[from Wikipedia]
Baikonur Subway Station
To buy yellow tokens for boarding the train
The stairs is more than 10 floors deep. The station is quite modern and spacious
There seems little chance for extension as the platform length just fir for 7 train compartments.
Zhibek Zholy Subway Station
One of the Almaty's early Russian buildings still stands on Zhibek Zholy Avenue
We then had lunch at Fakir, the waiter took our order with his phone using translate app.
Tomato soup with dumplings, fried potato, spaghetti dish
barbecue meat (mutton & chicken)
On the opposite of the street, there locates the PAXAT candy factory and outlet
In it there are n-shaped shelves showing all kinds of chocolates, candy and biscuits. Many locals came for shopping
Green Bazaar (Zelenyy Bazar) lots of goods for sell. We bought lots of dried fruits and nuts.
Abay Subway Station
A very happy ending for this rainy/cloudy day - with a big flower bed next to the entrance of the metro station
After washing, we went out for dinner. As we did not want to go far, we had a quick dinner at the restaurant downstairs. They serve Hookah (水煙) and many female groups share use of the "smoke pot" and I could taste fish and soup. When ordering food, the waiter asked a gentleman for help to translate for us.
I asked for a bowl to share the soup and I got this big bowl, kidding me.
Almaty is "Big Apple" too as they produced very big apples in the ancient time.
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