The penultimate day of our stay in Alma-Ata was the most intense. In the morning we went to the police department to apply for temporary registration - Kazakhstani law requires the registration, if the alien spends in the country for more than three days. They stood in line, fill a number of papers, paid the fee and passed the passport. They had to pick up after dinner, so we just came time to go to the mountain tract Medeo that next to the Alma-Ata.
We caught a taxi and drove out of town. Every minute drive air is cleaner and colder - just felt that we were going to the mountains. The tract is famous Medeo several things. Here, firstly, is one of the world's largest ice rinks for speed-skating - "Medea. Ice, which was set 170 world records, pour water from a mountain and with the help of artificial ice surface remains frozen for 8 months of the year. Currently sports complex is reconstructed and podgatavlivaetsya for the VII Winter Asian Games 2011. It will hold competitions in speed skating and ice hockey with the ball. Throughout the walk builders everywhere boils work.
And, secondly, here, right directly behind the stadium, stands a huge 150-meter protivoselevaya dams built explosive way. It was at this dam and we climbed up the endless stairs of the 800-odd steps (if I remember right this terrible figure).
On the penultimate ascent, there is a cafe where tired of vzbiraniya the steps people eat barbecue, drink beer and look at the surrounding mountains. And then you are overflowing with food and impressions of what he saw, doing the most important, final, controlling roll - to overcome the last step and find yourself at the top of the dam, from which opens a form that is not put into words.
Then we planned to go to the gorge Worldwide (all the mountains in the photographs in this record is Chimbulak). There, at an altitude of 2200-2500 meters above sea level, is highest ski resort Chimbulak. Now, to get there, we must take the car and drive along the mountain road, but this will soon change. Now in preparation for the VII Winter Asian Games here are building a modern cableway, which will take place from the beginning Medeo "to" Chimbulak. The length of the road - 4,5 km; road will take no longer than 15 minutes. When this road is finished, I will once again be visiting these wonderful, prohibitively beautiful places to sit in a booth and ride above the canyon and look around.
