One day in Almaty, Kazakhstan
A day through Almaty’s best-known sights that lie close together: Abai Square, Abay Opera House, Ascension Cathedral, Kazakhstan National Museum of Instruments, Central Mosque (Almaty) and Almaty Zoo. 6 stops, about 5.6 km between them in straight lines; the streets make it longer.
The route
- Abai SquareSquare · On the map
- Abay Opera HouseTheatre or opera house · 1.2 km on from Abai Square · On the map
- Ascension CathedralCathedral · 1.2 km on from Abay Opera House · On the map
- Kazakhstan National Museum of InstrumentsMuseum · 0.3 km on from Ascension Cathedral · On the map
- Central Mosque (Almaty)Mosque · 1 km on from Kazakhstan National Museum of Instruments · On the map
- Almaty ZooZoo or aquarium · 1.8 km on from Central Mosque (Almaty) · On the map
6 stops, about 5.6 km between them in straight lines.
More for Almaty
- Things to do in Almaty, Kazakhstan · 40 places to see, led by Ascension Cathedral and Almaty Tower
Photo credits
- Abai Square: www.kalpak-travel.com/, CC BY 2.0
- Abay Opera House: Sofi Kan, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Ascension Cathedral: Nikolai Bulykin, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Kazakhstan National Museum of Instruments: Ds02006, Public domain
- Central Mosque (Almaty): Gulsana Battakova, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Almaty Zoo: Vano111ru, CC BY-SA 4.0
Pictures from Wikimedia Commons, through each place’s Wikidata entry.
Good to know
- Each day starts at the best-known place not yet seen and adds the best known within a short walk of it, then puts them in the shortest order. The places come from Wikidata (CC0), ranked by how many Wikipedias have an article about them.
- The map draws each day’s walk along the streets, routed by Valhalla on OpenStreetMap; the distances beside the stops are straight lines.
- Opening hours, tickets and closures are not checked: each place’s Wikipedia article has them.