The “another square’s” fountain from the previous tale supposed to represent the Zodiac signs. Though I’m pretty sure there isn’t such sign as Snail. But all the rest of the gang seems to match the description. Strange magical water-resistance spell happened to us while we were there – we’ve been told that this particular fountain has never been switched off. Well, guess, what happened when we went to see it?
Every other day of our stay in town, driving by the fountain we watched him working…So in a way I’m now in a possession a very rare picture of a dead fountain…I might even sell it as a legacy item… Since we are still on the same page…or the same square, might as well tell you about that mosque on a background. When I used to live there, there wasn’t any mosque or church or any official place for people of faith. So to see this elegant building on the place where we used to walk and play after school was one of those “moments of unrecognition”, when you see something and feel how detached you are from it. In the mosque yard, there were a couple of Kazakh’s tents.
Of course these are not the real tents, where the Kazakhs used to live, but the imitations only. Apparently, they run a traditional Kazakh’s restaurant there. They’ve noticed a crowd of happy clickers with the cameras, so they invited us inside to take a look. These tents are traditional Kazakh’s house - “urta”. Historically Kazakhs were nomads and required a pretty much mobile house. And the rest of household appliances as well. They even used to have special tables and no chairs, but they would eat sitting around the table on the piles of pillows instead. We didn't stay for a meal, but my Kid did tried "koumis" - mare's milk. (yacky -yack, I must say)
As I’ve said before, most of our time has been spend outdoors. And though the temperature was around 108-110 F, it didn’t feel particularly unbearable. As I’ve mentioned already, there is a very sharp continental climate in there. There is also a clever trick for such weather conditions: when go outdoors, never look at the temperature sensor not until you are back. Not knowing, apparently, makes it easier to stand the heat and traffic queues. Trust me - I've tried. And it worked!