Almaty City Kazakhstan | A Glimpse of the City’s Green Bazaar and LOTTE Rakhat Chocolate Shop 🇰🇿

In this video: We visited Almaty’s City Center, Green Bazaar and Lotte Chocolate Shop

The Green Bazaar, Kazakhstan’s largest and most famous market, has rows and rows of neatly stacked, colorful spices, fruits and vegetables. Stroll around and you’ll be offered free samples of Kazakh treats, fruits and yes, even the horse sausage.

Head toward the back to hear the whack whack whack of huge meat cleavers cutting up hunks of pork and beef.

This is the place to get your shubat (fermented horse and camel milk) and kazy (horse meat sausage). Horse meat is widely consumed in Kazakhstan and we were served it on platters at several meals. Apparently, its popularity dates back to the nomadic lifestyle of the Kazakhs. It tasted like a tough, chewy piece of roast beef and wasn’t to my liking. I also tried the fermented horse milk and found it quite sour.

Even if you aren’t going to purchase anything, add a market visit to your things to do in Almaty just for the experience of seeing the colorful produce.

Just down the street is the LOTTE Rakhat chocolate shop that sells products made in Kazakhstan since the founding of the confectionary in 1942. I was literally (except for my age) a kid in a candy store and scooped up lots of chocolate goodies, some to consume myself and some for gifts.

Reference: https://thetravel100.com/amazing-thin...

Camera I Used:
DJI Osmo Pocket 3

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