Hotel Gazovik

Kazakhstan


Still the best central hotel, the 'Gasman' is a modern, 21-room affair with good, carpeted rooms boasting paintings, international TV channels and bath-tub. The half-lux rooms are considerably larger than the boxlike standard singles. Reception staff speak some English and there's a Russian/European restaurant on the ground floor.


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2. Taraz Regional Museum

0.11 MILES

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4. Karakhan Mausoleum

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A wooded park on Ybyraev, 700m east of Dostyk alany, is a reconstruction of this small but important medieval mausoleum. It houses cloth-covered…

5. Reconstructed Medieval Mosque

0.6 MILES

This is a modern reconstruction of the 9th- to-12th-century mosque in which Aulie-Ata, a revered Karakhanid potentate, is believed to have prayed, but you…

6. Dauitbek Mausoleum

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7. Shakhristan Market

0.99 MILES

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8. Aysha-Bibi & Babazha-Katun Mausoleums

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