Tag: Kyrgyzstan

Song-Kul Day Three – A Perfect Farewell

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…

Song-Kul Day Two – Horse Riding In Snowy Kyrgyzstan Mountains

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…

Song-Kul Day One – It’s Not Supposed To Be Snowing, It’s Summer

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…

Kochkor

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

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,…

Altyn Arashan – Alpine Hot Springs

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…

Jeti Oguz – All’s Well That Ends Well

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…

Bishkek to Karakol via Issyk-Köl

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…

Wandering in Bishkek

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…