Baikonur Cosmodrome, near Tyuratam, is the launch complex where Sputnik 1, Earth's first artificial satellite, was launched. It is the oldest manned spaceport in the world, but still the busiest.

Less than three hours from Astana and with birdlife that has recently attracted a nomination for UNESCO World Heritage Site status, the vast wetland area of the Korgalzhyn State Nature Reserve…

Semey, close to the Siberian border, is home to a new museum devoted to Abay Qunanbaev, Kazakstan's leading literary light. It was opened in 1995 to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the…

Kozha Akhmed Yasaui was a Sufi teacher and mystical poet who died in 1166. His tomb was already a place of pilgrimage when Timur constructed a grand mausoleum in his honour in the 1390s. The…