Our October Visit to the Circus

The Astana Circus Building (not in October)

On October 25 we took the girls to the circus.  Astana, like most former Soviet cities has a permanent circus building and a circus.  Circuses travel around to other cities and so you get different programs throughout the year.  We took the girls to the circus in Krasnoyarsk when we were there visiting in summer 2012.  The program for the circus in Astana was The Moscow Circus.  Yulia got tickets for Saturday afternoon - we had to take Lina out of school for her to attend, but it was worth it.

It was already getting cold in October, so our trip to the circus on the bus was cold (waiting at the bus stop) and then hot (riding in the full bus).  We arrived  in time to check our coats and get our seats and to wait for about twenty minutes.

 The program was a great mix of danger acts, funny acts (with clowns that were actually funny), and animal acts.  The best of the acts combined two or even three of these different elements.Overall this was the best circus I've been to in this part of the world (twice in Russia and now here). After the circus was over we walked to a nearby mall and ate at KFC and caught the bus home.  It was a fun evening for everyone.

Ushers directing viewers to their seats before the show begins.

The ladykids waiting for the show to start.

Dog Act with Clowns.

Cat act.  Its amazing that cats can be trained at all - and these were good!

Horse act - he danced like a Lipizzaner Stallion and it was beautiful.

A talented musical clown, and one that was funny, too.

Djigiti - Old Georgian-Central Asian Horsemen and Warriors. 

The Finale - Tightrope with multiple walkers, including bears (seen on the far stand). Awesome!

With the bear on a tightrope.