KAZAKHSTAN
​I visited Kazakhstan in the fall of 2017.

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Kazakh traditional music is popular and you may well hear it in taxis or minibuses as well as at organised concerts.*

Other instruments include the kobyz (a two-stringed fiddle), whose sound is said to have brought Chinggis Khan to tears, and the sybyzgy (two flutes strapped together like abbreviated pan pipes.)*

Almaty's multitowered, gold-domed, white-marble central mosque, built in 1999, is one of the largest in the country, with space for 3000 worshippers in the finely decorated main prayer hall.*

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The music is largely folk tunes: short on pounding excitement, it captures the soulful rhythms of nomadic life on the steppe.*

Kazakh Museum of Folk Musical Instruments

Sunkar Falcon Centre. 



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This large, two-level market (Green Market of Almaty) has a true flavour of Central Asia...Stalls are piled with nuts, fresh and dried fruit, smoked fish, spices, ready-made Korean salads, vegetables medicinal herbs, cheeses, sausages and enormous hunks of fresh meat.*

The national instrument is the dombra, a small two-stringed lute with an oval box shape.*
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Almaty's Metro.



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The main chamber is capped with an 18m-wide dome, above a 2000kg, metal kazan (cauldron) for holy water, given by Timur.*

* These captions are from Centre Asia -- Lonely Planet's travel guide.