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‘A Windows desktop screensaver’: Going off the grid in otherworldly Kazakhstan
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The Assy Plateau, located about 100km east of Almaty city, is about 40km long and one of several scenic spots in Kazakhstan.
ST PHOTO: KOLETTE LIM
ALMATY – I am strolling on a plateau 2,500m above sea level, stopping every minute to take in the view.
From the Assy Plateau, a stretch of highland nestled in Kazakhstan’s Ile-Alatau National Park, I gaze at a picture of pastoral harmony. Cattle graze on boundless pastures against a backdrop of snow-capped mountains. I hear only the wind.
