May 29th, 2009
by Matthew Gain.
So,Elizabeth has fulfilled one of her childhood ambitions of sleeping in a yurt. What is a yurt you ask? Why it is that funny looking shelter in the picture above. Traditionally the nomadic Kyrgyz people would live in these and move them to high ground in the summers and back down to the warmer valleys [...]
May 28th, 2009
by Matthew Gain.
A couple of days ago we hiked out of the alpine town of Karakol to Altyn Arashan, joined by Christine from the US who we met in town (and who gave us some awesome travel tips for China where she has been living for the last four years – thanks Christine!).
Given the elevation of the [...]
May 23rd, 2009
by Matthew Gain.
GUEST POST – BY ELIZABETH DAWSON
Our first stop across the border into Kyrgyzstan was a town called Osh. Nice place, worth a visit, only it was at least a ten hour drive north across two mountain ranges to our next stop – the capital city Bishkek.
We had sorted out our shared taxi through our hostel [...]