After about 48 hour of travel we were exhausted upon arriving to Almaty. The layovers we had were worth it and the price was certainly right- we paid 40,000 points for a flight from Denver, CO to Almaty, Kazakhstan. Although there are a lot of great out door options in Kazakhstan, we opted to focus the majority of our time…
Thanks to our multi-entry visa, we had the opportunity to explore both sides of Istanbul during our layovers. This post covers our adventures on the European side, later we also explored the Asian side like locals. Our flight from Denver to Almaty cost 40,000 points each, which was an incredible deal. It also came with two extended layovers: 4 hours…