Kazakhstan from Above

Check out this amazing drone video of Kazakhstan by baikenxx, a Drone Video of the Week and Month Winner in April 2019.  From the southern part of the country it includes footage of Sauran and Otyrar, the Akmeshit cave, the mausoleums of Arystan Bab and Kozha of Ahmed Yassawi. From western Kazakhstan you'll see footage of the Caspian Sea, the sacred sites of Becket Ata and Aday Ata. In the central part of the country, it has footage of Ulytau mountain and flamingos in the Korgalzhynsky Reserve. 

Prepare to be amazed by this aerial tour of Kazakhstan by contributor and drone pilot Kuznetsovkz.  The video will take you across the extent of this this Central Asian republic, one of the ten largest countries in the world by land area.  Ride along and you will get some epic bird's eye views of the country's mountains (which include some of the world's highest peaks), river valleys, and glacial lakes.  At the :50 mark you'll even get an epic bird's eye of the gold ball topped Baiterek Tower in the capital city Astana.  

Contributor ChristopherFenton used a DJI Mavic Pro 2 drone to create this amazing night hyperlapse of the Kazakh capital city Astana.  The video opens with an epic shot of Baiterek Tower, the monument and observation tower which was built in connection with the relocation of the capital from Almaty to Astana in 1997.  From there, you'll get bird's eye views of the city's magical colored water fountains, as well as aerial shots of the impressive and ultra-modern skyline of this planned city.

Photosafari.KZ is one of the top commercial drone piloting companies in Kazakhstan.  In this impressive reel, they demonstrate the breadth of their work in this spectacularly beautiful Central Asian country.  In 60 seconds, you will get an aerial tour of the world's landlocked country.  The video features epic footage of the country's spectacular mountains, valleys, canyons, and rivers, and deserts; its teeming wildlife; and its urban centers with their gleaming modern skylines.

Astana is the capital and second largest city of Kazakhstan, the Central Asian republic.  Since the capital was moved from Almaty in the late 1990's, Astana has been more or less completely remade with new construction.  Contributor Dronex.pro created this amazing drone video of the gleaming city.  At the :30 mark is a climb sequence in which you'll see the top of the 2012 vintage, 64 story Emerald Towers I building: at 240 meters (about 780 ft.), the tallest building in Central Asia.  

The Medeu is an outdoor skating rink on the outskirts of Almaty, the largest city in the Central Asian republic of Kazakhstan.  The Zailiyskiy Alatau mountains in which the Medeu sits are some of the most amazing to be found in the entire region.   Contributor Azugla San used a drone to create a stunning video of the area and the skating rink, which is believed to be the largest in the world.  Almaty was the initial capital of Kazakhstan when the county became independent of the USSR in the early 1990's.

Contributor Azugla San used a DJI Phantom 4 drone to create this memorable aerial video of the spectacular Almaty Peak.  The mountain is situated just a few km/mi outside of Almaty, the former capital of the country prior to its relocation to Astana in 1997.  The peak stands about about 2.2k meters (7.2k ft.) above sea level, a mere "midget" compared to Kazakhstan's highest peak: Khan Tengri stands over 7k meters (about 23k ft) high.

Almaty is the largest city in Central Asia.  Located in southeastern Kazakhstan, it was the country's initial capital city when it became independent from the USSR in 1991, before the capital was relocated in 1997 to the planned city Astana nearer the center of this vast land.  In this video, you'll get a bird's eye view of this amazing metropolis of nearly 2 million, situated in the foothills of the Trans-Ili Alatau Mountains.  It was shot with a DJI Phantom 4 Pro drone, at sunset.

Contributor Seki created this drone video of an epic mountain biking trip in western Kazakhstan.  The spot is Polousov Yar, on the banks of the Ural River.  The river is by far the most important waterway in this landlocked country.  It runs over 2.4k (about 1.5k mi.), making it the third longest river in Europe after the Volga and the Danube.  In the Western Kazakhstan region, it runs a southerly route to its discharge, a delta in the (inland) Caspian Sea, near the city of Atyrau.

FPV mountain surfing is all about picking epic locations, and contributor and FPV pilot IGOR GL did just that with this amazing video from Kazakhstan.  Using a racing quad built on a Nidici XF5 frame, he went way out over the mountains above Almaty, the country's largest city.  The foohills of the Trans-Ili Alatau mountains prove to be a fruitful place to display his FPV piloting skills.  Note the considerable range used in the flight; it's a long way out there!  

Much of the Central Asian republic of Kazakhstan is arid.  Numerous named deserts run across this enormous country, the 9th largest in the world by land area.  Much of the rest of the country is mountainous.  This drone video opens with an epic shot of the shadows of some camels traipsing through one of the Kazakh deserts.  In one continuous shot, it reveals the camels themselves, and if you look off into the horizon, you will see some snow-capped mountains.  

The Ural River is the third longest river in Europe, after the Volga and the Danube.  It rises in the Ural Mountains in Russia, then passes through a portion of western Kazakhstan before discharging into the great Caspian Sea.  It's an immensely important natural resource to Kazakhstan, much of which is covered by desert.  In this drone video by contributor sekl, you'll get a bird's eye view of the great waterway as it meanders its way through Kazakhstan, the world's largest landlocked country.