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Zet je eSIM klaar voordat je vertrekt — het kost ongeveer een minuut. Eén tik op de installatielink, aanzetten zodra je aankomt, en je bent online.
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24 bundels voor Kazachstan, van 3 tot 50 GB. De geldigheid loopt van 1 dag tot 180 dagen. 10 daarvan werken op 5G waar het lokale netwerk dat ondersteunt.
15 bundels kun je opwaarderen zonder een tweede eSIM te installeren. De bundels lopen via Beeline, ZET, MegaFon, Jazz.
Geteld in onze live catalogus, geen marketingcijfer — de lijst met bundels boven deze sectie is dezelfde data.
Voor Kazachstan: 26 regionale bundels dekken dit land. De ruimste dekt 5 landen — de moeite waard als het maar één stop van meerdere is en niet de hele reis.
Regionale dekking begint bij € 2,90 voor 0.48828125 GB over 1 dag.
Een reis-eSIM voor Kazachstan is een digitale simkaart die je telefoon zelf binnenhaalt — geen plastic kaartje, geen afhaalbalie op de luchthaven. Je koopt online, tikt op de installatielink die we je mailen (er zit ook een QR-code bij), en er wordt een tweede lijn geïnstalleerd naast je bestaande simkaart. Deze blijft inactief totdat je in Kazachstan aankomt, en maakt dan automatisch verbinding met Beeline, ZET, MegaFon op 5G waar beschikbaar en LTE overal elders. Je thuisnummer blijft werken voor bellen en sms'en; de eSIM verwerkt simpelweg je data.
Kaarten, berichten en taxi-apps tikken nauwelijks aan — grofweg 300–500 MB per dag. Voeg daar foto's, social media en af en toe een video aan toe en je zit dichter bij 1 GB per dag. Voor een reis van een week is een bundel van 5 GB comfortabel; voor twee weken, delen, of zwaar gebruik, kies je 10 GB of meer, of een opwaardeerbare bundel die je onderweg kunt aanvullen. Bundels voor Kazachstan beginnen bij € 5,80 in 7 formaten, en bij elke bundel staat de prijs per GB erbij — zo zie je meteen welke de juiste is.
Nee. Een reis-eSIM voor Kazachstan is een lokale databundel, geen internationale roaming — je betaalt vooraf de prijs die je ziet, zonder afrekening per megabyte van je eigen provider. Binnen de EU roamt je eigen bundel al gratis; daarbuiten wordt het een ander verhaal, en daar is dit voor. Zet de eSIM als je datalijn en dataroaming uit op je eigen simkaart, dan wacht je thuis geen verrassing. Volledige terugbetaling op elk moment vóór installatie, dus vooraf kopen kost je niets.
Beshbarmak
Boiled horse meat or lamb laid over wide sheets of dough with onion broth poured over. The name means five fingers and it is traditionally eaten by hand from a communal dish, with the sheep's head offered to the most honoured guest.
Traditional restaurants and any family celebration; the yurt-style places outside Almaty and Astana.
Kazy
Horse rib meat cured in its own casing and boiled, then sliced cold. Horse is prestige meat here rather than a curiosity, and kazy is what appears when guests matter.
The Green Bazaar in Almaty, where whole lengths hang at the meat counters.
Kuyrdak
Liver, heart, kidney and lung fried hard with onion and potato in tail fat. Traditionally the first thing cooked after an animal is slaughtered, because it will not keep.
Traditional restaurants and roadside cafes.
Baursak
Squares or spheres of dough deep-fried until puffed, piled in a bowl and served with tea, butter and jam. Present at every table, every occasion, without exception.
Everywhere. Markets sell them warm by the bag.
Kurt
Dried salted balls of strained sour milk, hard as chalk and intensely salty, made to keep without refrigeration through a nomadic year. An acquired taste that Kazakhs are fond of testing on visitors.
Markets and roadside stalls; sold by weight.
Manty
Large steamed dumplings of minced lamb and onion, or pumpkin, eaten with sour cream and black pepper. Steamed in stacked trays and served hot enough to burn.
Manty houses in Almaty and Shymkent; ubiquitous at bazaars.
Laghman
Hand-pulled noodles with lamb, peppers and tomato, either in broth or fried. Brought by the Dungan and Uyghur communities and now thoroughly local.
Dungan cafes; the ones near the Green Bazaar in Almaty are the standard recommendation.
Plov
Rice cooked with lamb, carrot and cumin in a wide cast-iron kazan. Southern Kazakhstan makes it close to the Uzbek style; further north it is lighter on the fat.
Shymkent and Turkistan; bazaar kitchens cook it in vast quantities before noon.
Shashlyk
Skewers of marinated lamb, beef or chicken grilled over coals, served with raw onion and flatbread. Eaten outdoors from spring onward.
Roadside grills on every intercity route.
Kumys and shubat
Fermented mare's milk and fermented camel's milk. Both are sour, slightly fizzy and mildly alcoholic, and both are drunk for health as much as pleasure. Spring kumys is considered the best.
Bazaars, where it is ladled from churns, and roadside stands on the steppe highways.
AlmatyAlmaty
The old capital, backed by the Trans-Ili Alatau range, with the wooden Zenkov Cathedral built without nails in Panfilov Park, the Green Bazaar, and a leafy grid of streets that make it the most liveable city in Central Asia.
two days
Medeu and Shymbulakabove Almaty
A high-altitude speed skating rink in a mountain gorge twenty minutes from the city, and a cable car continuing up to the Shymbulak ski area above it. Snow in winter, walking in summer.
a day
Big Almaty Lakenear Almaty
A turquoise reservoir in a bowl of mountains above the city, reached by a steep road. The area beyond it toward the Kyrgyz border is a controlled zone — do not continue past the signs without the right permit.
half a day
Charyn CanyonAlmaty region
A red sandstone gorge cut into the steppe, with the Valley of Castles section walked from rim to river in about an hour each way. Comparisons to the American southwest are lazy but not wrong.
a day
Kolsai and Kaindy lakesAlmaty region
Three linked mountain lakes in spruce forest, and nearby Kaindy, where an earthquake drowned a forest and the bare trunks still stand upright out of the water.
two days
Altyn-Emel National ParkAlmaty region
A vast desert park holding the Singing Dune, which hums when the sand slides, and the striped Aktau mountains. Entry requires a permit and the tracks inside need a proper vehicle.
two days · boek vooraf
AstanaAstana
A capital built from nothing on the steppe in thirty years, arranged along a ceremonial axis with the Bayterek tower, the Khan Shatyr tented mall and a great deal of ambitious architecture. Bitterly cold in winter.
two days
Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed YasawiTurkistan
A Timurid mausoleum, UNESCO-listed and never finished, the most important pilgrimage site in the country. The surrounding town has been heavily rebuilt to receive visitors.
a day
Mangystaunear Aktau
Chalk and limestone desert on the Caspian, with the Bozzhyra escarpment, the spherical concretions at Torysh, and underground mosques cut into rock. Reached only by 4x4 with a driver who knows the tracks.
three days · boek vooraf
BurabayAkmola region
Pine forest, granite outcrops and lakes in the northern steppe, a few hours from Astana and the country's traditional summer escape.
two days
Domestic flights
Kazakhstan is the ninth largest country on earth and flying is often the only sensible way to cross it. Air Astana and its low-cost arm FlyArystan link Almaty, Astana, Shymkent, Aktau and the regional centres.
moderate
Train
KTZ operates an enormous network of long-distance sleepers. The Talgo services between Almaty and Astana run overnight in reasonable comfort; the ordinary trains are slow, sociable and very cheap.
low
Almaty metro and buses
A single clean metro line under the city, plus a dense bus network. Both use the Onay card, bought and topped up at kiosks and machines rather than paid in cash.
very low
Shared taxi and intercity bus
Buses connect the towns, and shared cars leaving when full fill in the gaps at the bus stations. Agree the price before you get in, and expect the driver to want a full car.
low
Hired 4x4 with driver
The only realistic way to reach Altyn-Emel, the Mangystau desert or the tracks beyond Kaindy. Arranged through agencies in Almaty or Aktau, usually as a multi-day rate including fuel.
high by local standards
Ritdiensten
Yandex Go, inDrive
Both are used constantly and are inexpensive. inDrive works on an offer-and-counteroffer model rather than a fixed fare, which foreigners find odd at first. Unofficial taxis — anyone who stops when you raise a hand — remain common but the apps are safer and settle the price in advance.
Betalen ter plaatse
Basis
| New Year | 1 and 2 January | The largest secular holiday. Businesses close for several days in practice and domestic flights are full. |
| International Women's Day | 8 March | Taken seriously as a public holiday; restaurants fully booked and flowers sold on every corner. |
| Nauryz Meyramy | 21 to 23 March | The spring new year and the biggest holiday of the year. Yurts go up in city squares, nauryz kozhe is served publicly, and the country largely stops for three days. Book transport well ahead. |
| Unity of the People of Kazakhstan | 1 May | Public holiday marking the country's many nationalities; parades and concerts. |
| Defender of the Fatherland Day and Victory Day | 7 and 9 May | Two holidays within three days, usually bridged into an extended break with heavy domestic travel. |
| Kurban Ait | Eid al-Adha, moving about eleven days earlier each year | Public holiday; family gatherings and busy intercity roads. |
| Republic Day | 25 October | Public holiday marking the 1990 declaration of sovereignty. |
| Independence Day | 16 December | Marks 1991. Deep winter, so the impact is more on opening hours than on travel. |
Wisselende data — de dag waarop ze vallen verschilt per jaar.
