Houses of Atyrau

We have some nice looking houses, some shabby falling down houses/cottages, some brand new shiny houses, some religious houses and some creative houses! These creative looking houses are on our way to work. So we see these creative looking houses every day! Must say, they look better than the normal USSR concrete lumps, these at least have some colour and decorations!!







The Russian Orthodox church does also makes a good feature in the "sky line", here seen from both our office building and from the square.



The last picture here is the silver and shiny River Palace Hotel, aka Renco building. This is where we eat the great Italian pizza and drink wine at the roof top bar. It has a glass "fence" around the top, so it protects from the wind, but also lets you see the sunset, the low houses of Atyrau and the river right on the other side of the building!