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    I know what you mean about high altitude and thin air,I have suffered mild altitude sickness several times due to not acclimatizing.Your trip sounds fantastic,it will certainly be an eye opener . I will be at the wifes office Xmas party this coming saturday(plenty to eat and a five star hotel thrown in by her company)one of her colleagues has a husband who works as a petrochemical engineer,I am sure he has worked in the region,will see if he has any info on Almaty
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    I stayed on the Chinese side of the Tien Shan mate en route to the Mongolian side of the Altai.The people on the Xinjiang side are Uigurs,excellent people,and yes,I did stay in native tents when upcountry,they are nomadic people living in round felt,canvas tents called yurts,reminded me of camping in Weardale as a kid Never saw Taigans when I was there,saw big herd guarding mongrels though.Taigans are used for Marmots,hares and fox right?
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    Sounds a bit wierd and tastes like it sounds..........Fermented mares milk Dont forget your Yellow fever cert,and your Hep A and typhoid jabs
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    You could always prepare yourself for the trip,get along to the nearest cinema and watch the Borat movie :whistle:
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    Been right on the border mate,Urumqi and Xinjiang,get yourself up into the Tien Shan awesome mountains although Almaty is in the foothills of the Alatua range.Try drinking Kumiss . Theres an economic boom there at the moment,oil and gas,maybe thats pushed accommodation prices up as migrant workers flood in?
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    I always like Mary(even though "she" was a he :kiss: )from Wraysbury,nice looking fish
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    Those "Badger-type things" are those big orange Marmots I saw in Xinjiang and Mongolia,met a few marmot hunters among the uigurs,and yes,they do eat their dogs.
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    Should have given them a few tips and a sample of your bait Theres a program on BBC2 at 8pm,the guy is fishing for brown trout in London,might find a new venue if I watch it
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    Got mates around Shiney,penshaw,houghton,hetton etc,made a few phone calls out earlier,keep spreading the word on the grapevine,hope he gets the dogs back
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    Excellent result guys,had several hundred trout in the last year but never seen a "Blue" Did the 3 lads who were "Poaching" your spot when you first arrived catch owt?
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    And maybe it would be wise if salukigreyhounds or a MOD removed the picture from his profile
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    Excellent for sprat,though nowadays I normally use mine for small freshwater fish when live baiting pike or perch,thats the versatility of these nets mate
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    mackem are they ring necked parakeets? Theres reckoned to be over 7000 ring necked in the area,but we also have a small colony of orange-winged parakeets up the road in weybridge,local twitchers were delighted last year when a peregrine which frequented the area began targetting the birds
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    Soviet Bazaar I always used to imagine Ruski factory ships trading zenith NVG's for levi jeans and marlboros Going trout netting later tonight with mine,going to see if I can watch the fish hit the net rather than just hear the slapping on the surface Good luck with your purchase
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    Just spoke to the wife,they were £300,well worth it Not your usual blurry green image,but a crisp pin-sharp B&W picture,with an excellent inbuilt IR illuminator Midnight Runner,browns tonight mate,got enough George,zippy,and bungle fillets in the freezer to last a lifetime
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    Wife bought me them as a christmas prezzie mate,I will ask her when she comes in from work(I have the day off )going out tonight trout fishing :ph34r: so its an ideal opportunity to test them out thoroughly
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    Ponte,these are the MK 2's mate,waaaayyy better than the MK 1's,see the brightness control wheel between the objective lenses?Get your cheque sent of Ya know ya want to
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    Santa got the chop all those years ago when I caught dad delivering the prezzies
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    Nah mate,still got the Nguoi Rung,the Yeren,the Thunderbird,Mokele-mbembe,and the tooth fairy to believe in
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    Well,its a bit of an anti-climax,like finding the meaning of life in the middle pages of The Sun
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    Chupacabra spoken of with the same reverence in crytozoological circles as the Mongolian Death Worm and the Orang Pendek and I finally find a pic of one in the terrier section of THL
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    Mole,these are 5x magnification and a significant improvement on the MK 1's watching fox CLEARLY last night at a paced 105 yards,only problem is they are battery HUNGRY have to get some rechargeables
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    Midnight,Maidenhead is closeby,I saw several hundred parrots today,very vocal and very visible elma,theres lots of slow worms locally,havent seen an otter here though I have seen them in sutherland and caithness
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    Thanks a bunch guys,I will keep you updated on their performance
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    Codling,ling,odds and sods.
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