101 East Kazakhstans Hard Sell

Fancy visiting a lake that is famous for now being a dry ship cemetery Or how about visiting the world s largest tent Welcome to Kazakhstan, the former closed Soviet state that promises tourists a bewildering array of attractions unlikely to be found elsewhere. Poised strategically between Europe and Asia, Kazakhstan has long been largely ignored by the West or parodied in Hollywood. Now it is putting out the welcome mat for foreign tourists and seeking to reinvent itself as a player on the international