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- Bishkek
- Capital
- Som (KGS)
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- 4,753,003
- Population
- KG
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Kochkorka Slideshow
Kochkorka
Travel Blogs from Kochkorka, Kyrgyzstan
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Some local Kyrgyz music
A long drive along the southern shores of Lake Issyk-Kol where the views are more barren and roads winding than the north shore, we arrived at the nice little alpine town of Kochkor. There we were treated to some Kyrgyz folk music. A simple small three ...
Horses and Lakes
... is a dusty little town mostly used to organize trekking into the surrounding areas. Song-Kol Lake is one of the highlights of Kyrgyzstan. It's an alpine lake set in a plateau with mountains in the background. I spent two nights in a yurt and tried ...
Anyone keen on a game of headless Goat polo?
So into my final 'stan and after a quick nights stop over in Bishkek we drove out east to another Natural Reserve and the most amazing location for a camping spot I have ever been. Unfortunately it started to rain pretty hard as we arrived so a ...
Kochkor
... English teacher with massive NHS-style glasses. Although her vocabulary was pretty wide (and random), her pronunciation was shocking and i felt sorry for her pupils. But again the people of Kyrgyzstan proved themselves to be a mightily hospitable ...
Song Kul Lake
I was going to share a taxi from Bishkek, the capital city, to the countryside, since it was going to cost the same whether there was one or four passengers. As soon as I got in the taxi, thinking that I was going to wait for 3 more passengers to show ...
Lake Issyk Kul
... lake, nice homestay, dinner in a yurt... but lake issyk kul is too large to be scenic. it's like standing next to the sea, the water color doesn't lend itself to photographs either... not sure how this is supposed to be the #1 attraction in ...
Cholpon-Ata
To say our stay in an old Soviet sanatorium on the banks of Lake Issyk-kul was an experience would be understating the fact. We were all looking forward to some R&R after the rigours of more bushcamping - what we got was a cross between that classic ...
Au milieu de nulle part
On arrive vers 17h a Kochkor sous la pluie et on se dirige directement vers le CBT (Community Based Tourism) qui nous propose des logemement chez l habitant. Catte agence a un programme tres interessant de homestay en ville ou dans des yurts a la ...
The Jailoo
So we were now a streamlined number two. We caught a cab to our next destination of Kochkor where we were looking forward to getting into the handsome countryside on horseback. The drive in the Audi was swift, lasting two and a half ...
When the going gets tough Nick gets going
It was a pretty drive as we made our way in a northerly direction with the At Bashy mountain range to our right all morning. We greedily ate up the intermittent swaithes of concrete and at a wide point the driver ...
Yurt Life
Well I can report that Kyrgyzstan is definitely green and full of sheep, goats and yak/cow looking things. I hate to overuse a term but tellytubbyland with rocky outcrops is the best way to describe it. After an hour we left the main road (which was ...
I love Kyrgystan!
Joehoe….het is nog niet zo gemakkelijk om de grens te vinden. Op de kaart ziet het er heel gemakkelijk uit: gewoon de rode weg volgen, het blijkt kriskras door dorpen te zijn en na zeker 10 keer vragen en een paar uur verder vinden we een slagboom. ...
Yakshamash!
En route to Bishkek is the forgettable town of Naryn, a soulless place with nothing much to do but drink vodka. We managed to find a place to stay, after some unnecessary faffing around, in what appeared at first to be an abandoned ...
Stars and cigars
Despite repeating the name of the town we wanted to go to about 3 times to the driver, we ended up being put in a taxi heading back round the north side of the lake. Thankfully we managed to stop the driver who then had to take us - and everyone else in ...
May 05, 2009
The Torugart Pass.
... could become a lengthy process. Fortunately the Gods were smiling on us that day any everything went like clockwork. The Kyrgyzstan officials even shook our hands and proudly welcomed us into their country, a complete shock to the system after ...
Song Kol
this is a short post......very short post. go to song kol. it is good. go there on horseback. it is much ...
Goat Polo it's the real thing!
The road to Song Kul Lake does not exist on many maps, in fact the roads around Song Kul Lake do not really exist either. So we went up the valley, past some old soviet coal mines that have really scarred the landscape and over an unknown pass. This was ...
Mad Donkeys and Sore Asses
We circumnavigated the lake to a Yurt Camp on the far side. The road in required several river crossings as we drove across the Steppe on what were only summer tracks in the grass. How we will get out if it rains remains to be seen. The Yurt camp was ...
Kochkor Market Delights
A delightful market, especially the car boot stalls. Maybe not the sheep in the boot ...
Mud Mud and Mud
The weather has stayed grey and misty as we set off down very wet tracks on our way to a 3 day stay in the Jeti Ougz Valley. The tracks are now just slippery mud. We sit heater on wrapped up from the cold hoping that the truck will make it out along the ...
Koly-Kok
We have split our 6 day horse ride from Kara Suu to Song Kol across 2 posts under the expectatoins that there would be a god-almighty amount of photos to put up, and also, because it is a good way of separating the two geographic highlights of the trek: ...
Kochkor - gateway to Song Kol
... and dessert at her grandparents, a short drive down the road. The bread and homemade jam there was as good as any we tried in Kyrgyzstan, though the kymys was just as weird as the cup I'd tried back at the lake. After we'd eaten (again) the old man asked ...
From Kochkor to Tash Rabat
... taken. It’s a hard life for the people of Naryn or in fact for many of the rural townships we visited in Kyrgyzstan. Wandering around the gallery looking at hundreds of photos of former Kyrgyz politicians was certainly not our idea of a fun hour to ...
Issykul to Kochkor
... hair and green eyes and others looked slightly Mongolian in appearance. Apparently, there are 80 different ethnic groups in Kyrgyzstan; the main ethnicities being Kyrgyz (66%), Uzbek (14%) and Russian (10%). Minority groups with sizeable representation ...
Nad jeziorem 3016 m npm / On the lake 3016 m asl
Wstajemy nadzwyczaj pozno i stajemy na drodze dopiero po 10, ale juz po 15 min czekania i zjadaniu niezbyt dojrzalych moreli z przydroznego drzewa jestesmy w samochodzie do Balikchy, dziewczyny zaczely stopowac wczesniej i takze beda niedlugo w Balikchy, ...
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