Today is Victory Day here in Kazakhstan. It's a major holiday, which gave us the day off and a long 3-day weekend. So we headed to the canyons of eastern Kazakhstan, about four hours outside of Almaty. This is Travis' Victory Day monument he made on a stop outside of the canyon.
Amy/Travis

A village on the way to the canyon.
Amy/Travis

The road to Charyn Canyon
Amy/Travis

This is Charyn Canyon, beautiful but extremely touristy. It's not to be missed though.
Amy/Travis

Amy/Travis

Because of the amount of people at Charyn, we chose to camp a little ways down the road at a less populated spot. This is overlooking our campsite from the road. From this perspective, we settled down and to the left of the river.
Amy/Travis

At the campsite, damming up a refridgerator to get our drinks cold in the freezing river.
Amy/Travis

Amy, Mick, Patty and Cassie making dinner.
Amy/Travis

Travis' mud castle on the shores of the canyon river.
Amy/Travis

Our hike through the canyon
Amy/Travis