River trips can be taken in Semipalatinsk on the River Irtysh. There are two TurkSib trains leaving Chimkent daily, one to Tashkent in Uzbekistan and the other to Novosibirsk in the Russian Federation, stopping at destinations in between. The cost of rail travel in Kazakhstan is minimal in comparison with Western Europe and there are regular connections between all the main centres. Queues at stations to buy a ticket can be long and passengers should bring their own food and drink on any train journey. It may be advisable for foreign visitors to travel by bus between cities, owing to an increase in robberies on trains.
Traffic drives on the right.
There is a reasonable network of roads in Kazakhstan connecting all the towns and regional centres. Petrol supplies are reasonably reliable in comparison with other Central Asian republics. These are available in all Kazakh cities. Almaty is served by trolleybuses and buses.