Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan Travel Blogs

Gamburgers on Ice, Twister in the Marshrutkas
Dec 27, 2007

... allow for much time to travel. I had also stayed in Bishkek for two nights before leaving for Karakol. My first experience with Bishkek, while walking to a hotel was this: I was asking for directions at a car repair shop, with a good man trying to ...

Kyrgyzstan
Nov 20, 2007

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Wild Kyrgyzstan - Part 2
Jul 23, 2008 (8 photos)

... that 'Russian only' will win over friends and businesses. And there is no guarantee that the future generations of Kyrgyz will continue to learn Russian and be bi-lingual. Only time will tell how the future of Kyrgyzstan and its people will turn out.

Wild Kyrgyzstan - Part 1
Jul 23, 2008 (56 photos)

... town has a very Russian feeling and is easy to navigate on foot and marshrutnoe minibuses (if you can read Russian). After 3 days in Bishkek, I headed to Lake Issyk-Kol. TAMCHY I started my 18-day trip around Lake Issyk Kul with a 3 day CBT Yurt stay ...

Badass'stan
Aug 7, 2009 (147 photos)

... as he got off the bus. Cholpon Ata surprised us in being so much more developed than the rest of Kyrgyzstan - even Bishkek. There was a tarmac main road and street lighting and a bustling restaurant scene and nightlife. Houses were also being developed. ...

Not a nyet but not a da either
Sep 14, 2009

I'm off to the Russian consulate at the crack of dawn and get there at 08.15 for the 09.00 opening. There is already a very large queue waiting. Fortunately a young Russian woman tells me to put my name on the list otherwise I'd be still there wondering ...

Kyrgyzstan
Aug 14, 2009

... haphazard garden shed from the outside, but on the inside it worked like a bonafide sauna, completely with birch branches. Kyrgyzstan is beautiful. The cities are not spectacular. Built during the Soviet years, they are mostly a dilapidated collection of ...

Kyrgyzstan (1)
Jul 6, 2005 (10 photos)

... site. If you do not wish to receive these messages, please unsubscribe yourself or send me an email. Sublime. I'm back in Kyrgyzstan, its election season, and the mountains are glimmering in the summer sun. Could I ask for more? Once I decided ...

another natural disaster?+ I loathe corrupt police
Jun 5, 2008 (18 photos)

... taking out the concrete wall then flying off the 50 meter shear drop the other side. Knowing that most of the roads on Kyrgyzstan were prone to landslides I straight away assumed this was what is was, jumping out of the van and moving to safety. But after ...

Leaving Bishkek
May 12, 2008 (14 photos)

Salaam Aleikum, ich bin vom Issyk-Koel See zurueck nach Bishkek gefahren, diesmal im Shared Taxi, das ist mit 4h schneller als der Minibus (5h). Urspruenglich hatte ich ueberlegt via Naryn zu fahren, aber die Strassen durch die Berge sind erst ab Ende ...

Kyrgyzstan and Lake Issyk-Kul
Aug 20, 2006 (5 photos)

... various types some damaged from vandalism. Despite all of this economic decline and revolution to topple the president, Northern Kyrgyzstan seems to be doing well off of their rich Kazakh neighbors. Many have opened tourist oriented businesses to bring ...

Biskek at Last
Jul 25, 2005 (4 photos)

Having landed in ______ for a few hours, we well and truly ready to arrive in Bishkek, not quite knowing what to expect.

Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
Aug 5, 2006 (6 photos)

... off the coast of Burma and Thailand. They had very fond memory of each other. Tomorrow, I will travel, probably by shared taxi, to another (more remote) part of Kyrgyzstan. If everything goes according to plan, I should be in Xinjiang by Friday night.

Some interesting observations in Central Asia
Oct 19, 2008

... in Central Asia seem to be very high. Anyways, the place I'm staying at is a very nice bed and breakfast in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.   Now, a lot of things have happened since the last time I wrote a blog, and it wasn't even that long ago. I ...

Feux d'artifices a l'arrivee
Jul 21, 2009

Salut a Tous, L'ambiance a Bichkek est au beau fixe, avec bal musette et feux d'artifices tous les soirs, dans la perspective des elections presidentielles qui auront lieu dans deux jours. Dans mon avion sont arrives quelques observateurs dont je n'ai pas ...

Kyrgyzstan (2)
Aug 12, 2005 (10 photos)

... emails after the last blog. Back by popular demand... ...my top taxi snippets from the last month of traveling around Kyrgyzstan: 1) Offending the driver by attempting to put on my seatbelt 2) Noticing that most taxis have a crack in the windshield ...

The End
Aug 15, 2009

... keep going. My Grandparents very kindly bought me one to take away with me and I've had it with me my whole trip, but before Kyrgyzstan had not had an oppertunity to use it as I had done not trekking/ outside stuff. But I've been using ti here on variouse ...

Market day and Kyrgystan's finest
Sep 13, 2009 (19 photos)

... the agreement, the satisfaction. It is the antithesis of going to the supermarket. The ride from Karakol along the plain to Bishkek starts with the snowcapped Central Tian Shan mountains to the south, Lake Issy Kol to the north overlooked by another range ...

Kyrgyzstan - Yurts and Out of Control Horses
Jun 13, 2008

... as a summary and not a blow by blow, as our access to internet was limited throughout our time in Kyrgyzstan.... We touched down in Bishkek after a short flight from Tashkent.  We immediately noticed the numerous U.S. Air Force planes next to us on the ...

Tashkent to Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
May 29, 2009

Our Flight from Tashkent to Bishkek  Our Uzbekistan Airlines flight from Tashkent to Bishkek, the capital city of Kyrgyzstan crossed the lower part of Kazakhstan over massive broad acre farms before touching down at Manas airport, Bishkek. Our flight ...

Our Introduction to Kyrgyzstan
May 29, 2009 (5 photos)

... its natural beauty. With stunning mountains, lush green alpine meadows, magnificent mountain lakes and super hospitable people, Kyrgyzstan makes for another fascinating and highly scenic destination. Even though we were very late arriving at Manas airport ...

Who turned out the lights??
Jun 14, 2005 (3 photos)

... US Air Force planes parked in neat rows on the tarmac. Following a scenic taxi ride beside the snow-capped mountains that surround Bishkek, we got to our scuzzy $10 hotel in the evening and promptly went out looking to be fed. Although the centre of the ...

My City of Ruins......
Feb 27, 2007

So the "Johnny Nomad Experiment" has made it to Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan! So here we are one step closer to Europe! Our introduction to Kyrgyzstan was not half as eventful as ours was to Kazakhstan. More on Kyrgyzstan after we figure out how things work here! ...

Giggety, giggety
Sep 5, 2006 (2 photos)

Four great days in Bishkek - it seems to be a town entirely populated by Russian supermodels. During this time we - Stared at supermodels - Narrowly avoided being arrested after Frosty was noticed taking photos of said girls - Found an authentic ...

Bishkek Thursday
Jun 14, 2007

Long ride from south to North Kyrgyzstan to capital Bishkek. Glorious scenery - kind of wild alps - with hills and mountains and rolling steppes in different hues. Vehicles small to cope with rough roads and passes. Periodically spying eagles hovering, ...

Uzbekistan--From a Distance
Jun 9, 2008

It's only now that we are in a new country (Kyrgyzstan) that we can begin to reflect with some distance on our experiences in Uzbekistan...and what experiences they were! We have so little time to do justice to our trip on this blog. Here are some ...

Mountains and Horses and Stuff
Jul 30, 2009 (10 photos)

Kyrgyzstan is well cool, I've benn horse riding and all. Internet however is very expensive so this will have to be brief. We went over a big mountain to a holy lake and camped up in the high pastures and I wore a big hat and got a sunburt nose, it was the ...

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Jun 10, 2007 (3 photos)

... to. Well that was my view, and the price was very affordable even if the Audi had the ubiquitous cracked windscreen. Bishkek was something of a relief. Far more modern than anywhere else in the country, the streets are wide and leafy, our limited, ...

Around Lake Issy Kol
Sep 13, 2009 (5 photos)

A slight circumnavigation of part of Kyrgyzstan later, and I am back in Bishkek. Again. However, no more pottering about on jaunts, I have to head south. Not just for the winter, but also to get into China before my visa expires and the mountain pass ...

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Jul 2, 2009 (1 photos)