Kazakhstan Travel Podcast with Aigerim Serik

Aigerim Serik hosts a podcast about travelling through Kazakhstan the way a resident would: settling in one place, learning it, then moving somewhere connected to it. The country's geography makes that approach necessary. Most of the interior is thinly populated steppe, with continental cold and heat, and people concentrated in urban corridors in the far north and south. Each episode grounds itself in a particular place: Almaty's foothills, Astana's windswept avenues, Shymkent's bazaars, and the Betpak-Dala desert, a dry interior region far from the usual tourist route. The host also follows connections between these places, such as the railways and roads that tie the steppe together. Over a couple of years, the show moves with the seasons. Winter arrives cold and dry across the northern plains; summer brings heat and aridity to the southern oases and deserts. The host returns to earlier stops as they change, and the series builds a slow, accumulated sense of how Kazakhstan works. Aigerim Serik lives in Kazakhstan and stays for two years, moving between cities, coastlines and smaller towns on a route that follows the seasons. Not a week-long visit — Aigerim is there in every kind of weather, working out where to eat on an ordinary Tuesday, which train to take, what a festival actually feels like from the pavement. A new episode arrives every day. Each one is short and specific: one neighbourhood, one journey, one meal, one museum worth the detour — with the practical detail that matters. What it costs. When it closes. Whether the queue is worth it. What to do when it rains. Every episode carries a full transcript and chapter markers. ☕ Enjoying the show? These episodes are free and stay that way because listeners chip in — if a coffee's worth it, support the journey: buymeacoffee.com/paris2tokyo Part of Paris2Tokyo — one show for each of the world's hundred most-visited countries. Made for travelers, wherever you are going next. #Kazakhstan #KazakhstanTravel #CentralAsia #Astana #TravelPodcast #Travel #Paris2Tokyo https://www.paris2tokyo.com/podcasts/kazakhstan/