Category: Kyrgyzstan
There is little joy in waking at 3:15AM for an international flight, especially after going to bed in a 12-bed dormitory two-and-a-half hours earlier. The sole comfort was…
During the night, my stomach started to churn and I had to make a dash for the bathroom. It wasn’t a long walk, but with it snowing, any…
Even with the landscape outside cold and coated under snow, it was warm in the bed. The yurt was draughty, and the fire that transformed the tent to…
After another big feed at Fatima’s guest house, we shifted all our warm clothes into the one bag, and left everything else behind, because today we are starting…
We had made Karakol our base for the last couple of days, but even though there was loads we hadn’t seen, it was time to move on. Just…
Karakol may be Kyrgyzstan’s fourth largest city, but it feels little more than a small basic town, filled with tired Soviet concrete apartments and wooden ‘gingerbread’ houses. But,…
After getting lost yesterday at Jeti Oguz, we took extra precautions this time. I had a second, more detailed trail map, and I also loaded the map into…
Last night before he left, Kas mentioned that he was headed out to a nice hiking area (though not to go hiking himself) called Jeti Oguz and that…
A good friend of ours, who was an English teacher on the JET programme with me in Hokkaido and also a resident snowbum in Niseko, made a trip…
We were flying to Bishkek in Kyrgyzstan with Turkish Airlines. I’ve mentioned it before, but it bears repeating. We had originally planned to hop back on a train…