winter is coming

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I left downtown Almaty today, the place of shopping malls…

…and cool kids:

Well, I didn’t really leave, though. I just went out for the day.

First I took a cab to a place called Medeu, which was about 20km south of Almaty. Then I hopped into a cable car:

And then I was in a ski resort called Shymbulak:

It was nice:

And the view was spectacular:

I’m not a great fan of the Olympics. But I figured that this place would have been nice for the Winter Games of 2022:

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But then the IOC made the decision to give them to Beijing.

Guess they didn’t need any mountains.

Or snow.

Winter is coming.