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Lets begin

The in-flight music is making me nostalgic

Last year I travelled with Air Astana from Delhi to Russia

Inflight entertainment has improved a lot

It will take around 4 hours to reach Almaty

We will reach at 4 pm in Almaty

Let me show you the freebies which I got in this flight

This is the goodie bag

Here are the candies

Now we are flying over Pakistan

We have just crossed Lahore, Sargodha, Gujranwala...

Now we have entered Jalalabad, Afghanistan

This is Afghanistan

I requested for vegetarian meal

I wanted to edit the videos but couldnt just because..

the landscape visible from this height is mind blowing

We are flying above Tajikistan

That seems to be a river and a dam

We are somewhere near Dushanbe and Kulob

If you love such landscapes, then I would recommend you to take this flight of Air Astana

This flight leaves Delhi around 11:30 am

We have reached Almaty

Mr Kartikeyan accompanied me on this seat

Like him there are a lot of medical students in this flight

Even last time I saw lot of medical students in Air Astana's flight

So this flight belongs to students and Doctors

He is going to Ukraine and I am staying here in Almaty

The unique thing about this trip is that I am going to travel 3 countries this time

but I didn't take advance visa for none of them

Let me tell you, how I am doing this!

Right now I am in Kazakhstan.

After this I am going to visit Turkey and then Georgia

My initial plan was to visit Turkey

There are lot of flights from India to Turkey

But I chose Air Astana

because Kazakhstan offers a free transit visa to Indians for 72 hours

Only condition is that Kazakhstan should be in your transit, not your actual destination

So after 2 days I am going to fly to Turkey

You have to leave Kazakhstan within 72 hours of your arrival

After this I will visit Turkey, then Georgia and then back to Delhi via Astana (Kazakhstan)

I was not required to get advance visa from the Turkish embassy because...

Turkey offers e-visa to valid Schengen and US visa holders

Thanks to my US visa because of it I could get e visa for Turkey

Indians can visit around 40 countries without visa if you have a valid US visa

I have written an article on it. Check the link above.

These 40 countries are other than those countries which normally offers such facility to Indian passport holders

You dont have to get US visa for those 'other' countries

For eg Thailand, Sri Lanka, Nepal, etc.. Indians get visa on arrival, e-visa or without visa to visit these countries

So if you have Schengen or US visa, then you can visit Turkey with an e-visa

getting e-visa for Turkey takes hardly 2 minutes

You have to fill in your personal details, US visa number, travel details, etc and you'll get Turkish visa online

Similarly, my US visa is also going to help me enter Georgia without its visa

I didn't shoot videos at Delhi airport because all the formalities at Delhi airport are already recorded in another video

That is the first video of my Russian series

That will help you to know about the formalities in India before you fly outside

You can stay in a 3-4 star hotel for a day in just 1 US Dollar if you are flying with Air Astana

Today, I am going to stay in a 4-star hotel

I just paid 1 US Dollar

Around 70 Indian Rupees

This is the airport

Kazakhstan is like Russia

That an ATM from Cberbank

Tenge is the currency in Kazakhstan

i am going to withdraw from an ATM

You can also exchange US dollars from those exchange counters

In this Stopover Holiday Programme I also get free pickup and drop facility

You can extend your stay in the hotel by paying for discounted tariffs

as you are Air Astana's passenger

So if you are flying to Russia, Ukraine, China, Mongolia, UK, Germany or somewhere else...

then you can visit another country (Kazakhstan) without its visa if you fly with Air Astana

Please check their website to know where all do they fly

I would definitely recommend Air Astana's 'stopover holiday programme' and Kazakhstan's 72 hours free transit visa

I am sure you'll love this experience

After landing at Almaty airport, I approached the Immigration desk

They asked me are you a Tourist?

Yes

The immigration officials could not speak properly in English. I had a similar experience in Russia

however, we managed to talk with eachother

They asked me for Kazakh's visa

I said, I am availing the 72 hours free transit visa

Then he approached a senior official

A lady handed over him this document

This helped me in getting permission. It was an easy process

Though the immigration process takes time

Now I am going to approach the stopover holiday desk

There is a free wifi for passengers at this airport

but you need Kazakhstan's local number to use it

the send OTP only on Kazakhstan's sims

I have an Indian sim so couldn't use the free wifi

This is a small airport

Here is the Tourist information desk

This is the meeting point for Stopover Holidays

I have got some basic information from this Tourist Information desk

This is operated by the official Tourism department of Almaty

I have asked them how should I plan my next 1 1/2 days in Almaty

Let me share something important

This is bus 92. Goes from Airport to the city center

This will take you from the airport to the Sayakhat bus terminal

From there you can get a bus to go anywhere

You have to pay 150 Tenge (KZT) to reach there in the bus

its almost 30 INR

The fare remains same irrespective of the distance you cover in a bus

But you can avail discounted fares if you use Onay card

its cost 400 Tenge

Instead of 150 Tenge you will pay 80 Tenge through this card

its 8:00 pm

This is Hotel Ramada

I paid 1 USD to stay here

I am getting messages from Couchsurfers now. I am using this hotel's wifi

Its 8 pm here and 7:30 pm in India

This is a petrol station near Hotel Ramada

He is a couchsurfer. Helping me a lot

I have purchased a local Sim for 300 Tenge

which costed around 2000 Tenge at the airport

This is 'Tele 2'. The same network I used in Russia

I a going to recharge it with that machine

I used the ATM at airport to withdraw 1000 Tenge

This is not working. We are going somewhere else to recharge

Here you can stop a car by waving your hands

Even private cars will stop

You can bargain for the fare if its not a taxi

I saw a few people doing this

Its just like hitchhiking

but here you pay for this

Going to recharge my sim from this machine

I like this place

For more infomation >> India to Almaty | Kazakhstan Free Transit visa | 5-star hotel in 70 Rs! - Duration: 15:45.

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Man Utd news: Rio Ferdinand makes damning Jose Mourinho verdict on Anthony Martial - Duration: 1:47.

 Those are the thoughts of Manchester United legend Rio Ferdinand. Martial has found himself in Mourinho's bad books on more than one occasion and returned home early from United's pre-season tour of the USA to be present for the son of his birth

 The Frenchman suggested earlier in the summer he wanted to leave the Red Devils. Now, he looks likely to stay, with the transfer window closing tomorrow

 And Ferdinand thinks Mourinho needs to do more to extract the best from Martial.  "Mourinho still has a great pool of players to choose from, his biggest job this season is to get the best out of players like Pogba, Marcus Rashford, Anthony Martial, to make sure they produce the goods," Ferdinand told the Daily Mail

 "Rashford has stood still for the last year, Martial has gone backwards. "The art of management is getting the best out of players

 "It's not just Jose, it's a combination. "But he has to be the instigator in that in the way he instills confidence in his players

 "That's what you are paid big bucks for, to get the best from your players. There are no grey areas

" United kick off their Premier League campaign at home to Leicester on Friday (8pm)