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Osh
Travel Blogs from Osh, Kyrgyzstan
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Five Parts From Bishkek to Tashkent
This is a top pick! ... could blame Russia for imposing nonsensical boundaries that weave to and fro and include doughnut inholdings. As Osh was remote from the other parts of Kyrgyzstan, the city gets its gas from Uzbekistan, a few kilometers away in the Fergana Valley. But ...
To Osh
... and descents back down to the plains. People selling melons, gourds, squashes, pumpkins line the road near the towns and villages. And then Osh. I get my usual "do I really want to be in a city feeling?" All I need is one thing to go wrong and I'll be on ...
Leaving Osh and Kyrgysztan
... mitten in der Stadt, gepredigt haben, daher ein Pilgerort fuer Moslems). Es gibt aber nichts historisches hier mehr. Einen Lenin besitzt Osh aber auch noch:-) Letzte nacht ist der Strom ausgefallen und bis jetzt (es ist gleich 18 Uhr) nicht wieder ...
Bazaar day
... the end of Ramadan yesterday so not many are stirring early. Fine. Then to my favourite urban activity - exploring a bazaar. The bazaar in Osh is awesome. One of the biggest I've ever been to and I've been to some big ones. Monday is certainly bazaar ...
The Wine from Hell
Our driver was great and very friendly and got us nine tenths of the way to our hostel but still tried to get us to stay in a hotel of his choosing where he'd no doubt get a cut. It took us a while to find our hostel, hidden away off the main ...
Qui a dit que ca sentait le cheval ???
... des bazars qui n'ont plus rien de soviétique et retrouvent toutes leurs couleurs sur les étals de suzanis, kurpatchas, tchapans… De Osh, j'ai commencé ma remontée vers le Nord, avec une première étape à Arslanbob. Là encore, un village à ...
Jalalabad - the one in Kyrgyzstan
My childhood seemed to be filled with me asking my dad, "I've got good news and bad news, which do you want first?" His response was invariably "bad news first." So in honor of you dad, here's the bad news first. Being in a country where no ...
Arrived in Osh
Salam Aleikum, ich bin wohlbehalten in Osh angekommen, da ich in einem Mercedes Shared Taxi gefahren bin, waren es nur etwas weniger als 10h Fahrt fuer die fast 700km. Taxis haben ihre Preise ganz gut gesteigert (mit dem Oelpreis), da Busse / Minibusse ...
Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgystan in one
... Toktogul reservoir and through the Fergana Valley. We also passed through a number of small towns and Jalal-abad, Kyrgyzstan third largest city. As soon as I arrived at Osh late in the evening it had a good feel about it and a nice vibe. It felt ...
The aftermath
... out her parents are working in Almaty, Kazakhstan. The pay is better over there. So her parents sent her to Osh to live her grandparents. I guess this shows Kyrgyzstan is a safe enough country that you can send your child to sit in a car with 4 complete ...
Ain't no mountain high enough- part 2
... get your first horse around 4 years of age and you are an expert horseman by the time you are 5/6. The donkey appears to be Kyrgyzstan version of the holy cow - they are everywhere and they are ridden barte back and on the very rear so it looks like you ...
Lunch in Sarytash.. looking for onward transport.
Left Karakul lake around 7am, and had a really pretty drive through the mountains to the Kyrgyzstan border - - where we had some of the most intense military checkpoints of the trip... 7 checks to get through the border to sary tash! Sary Tash was ...
Holiday!!!!!!!!
... (where else would you stay in Bishkek?). Then back to Dushanbe. The trip was incredible, I would recommend Kyrgyzstan to anyone, it is an amazing country and the people are extremely open and friendly. I also had an excellent ...
The longest border crossing ever
... Kyrgyz ou l on doit nous tamponne notre passeport parce que pendant ce temps, nous ne sommes toujours pas officielement rentre au Kyrgyzstan. Comme nous sommes en regle avec notre visa et meme si l on ne parle pas russe le tampon arrive enfin. Les ...
The country with the million dollar smile
... of our group could speak Russian so we could engage in conversation. The most noticeable thing about these people and many others in Kyrgyzstan is that they have some gold teeth. When they visit the dentist instead of fillings they get new gold teeth. ...
Osh gosh and potentially oh my gosh
... the 1st, and so I imagine the next week is going to be eventful. I had been dreading having to cycle up some of the worst roads in Kyrgyzstan, up to a pass of over 3600 metres, and it looks like I may now not have to - it could be a truck that I take up. ...
Osh, Kyrgyzstan
... plov, consisting of a mix of rice, vegetables, meat and garlic. Very tasty! DAY 101 "It's a long way.." Kokand to Osh (Kyrgyzstan) - (180km) ..if you are riding a bicycle to Osh 180km to be exact is what we had to cycle including yet another ...
Resting in Osh
... could do some travelling together - I didn't have that opportunity with mine. I was content for not doing anything in Osh. I visited a few restaurants, eating all kinds of local dishes: - manty = dumplings (like Peking ravioli) filled with meat ...
Osh
Osh is Kyrgyzstan's second city and was the centre of some serious violent clashes between the Uzbeks and Kygyz people in 1990 although it's difficult to believe that now. We have seen some serious weaponry here - the border guards and militia at ...
Kyrgyzstan!
... I made it out of Uzbekistan! There is in fact a fair bit of onternet here so I will update again most like. I traveled to Osh from Tashkent with 2 fench brothers and 70 boxes of soap(cargo on the bus), eventually making it to Osh late saturday night. Our ...
The Dominican Republic of Central Asia
... , Kyrgyzstan was great and I can't wait to go back...which will actually be next week, as I take a 2 week vacation to Kyrgyzstan and then (hopefully) to Uzbekistan (depends on the visa...as an American devil, it is difficult for me to get a ...
Chinese Border
It's still apparently quite rare for travellers to use the Torugart Pass to get into China and so we were ready for some delays at the border. We left our bush camp at 7:30am - it's about an hour's drive from the Kyrgyz side of the border - and arrived ...
Third Time's a Charm!!!
... just go their own way the next day. I guess that's one of the things I love about traveling..... So, here I am in Kyrgyzstan. I have about two weeks to do some trekking around Lake Yssyk-Kul before I have to start making my way back towards Shanghai ...
May 10, 2009
What the hell we've been up to:
... I'll give a little update in case it takes another few days to get everything sorted... Right now I'm sitting in an internet cafe in Osh, Kyrgyzstan, 184km off our route that I had to travel to pick up a $100 peice of paper that says I'm allowed into an ...
Rolling in Raspberries in Osh
... , sliding asleep next to the dinner table, waking to crawl to our tent and sleep again under the wide starry skies. Bliss! Kyrgyzstan has been our most freely adventurous country. So easy to get around, so easy to meet awesome travellers and wonderful ...
Osh
G'day all, We are in Kyrgyzstan and enjoying a bit of different scenery. It is a lot more russified than we had anticipated - not that this is a bad thing. Our journey yeserday from Kashgar over the border through the Irkershtam pass was fantastic. It ...
Osh - our first taste of Kyrgyzstan
... a car seat was – none of us felt any different to how we had down in Murghab. The crossing from Tajikistan to Kyrgyzstan took an age, mostly as a result of our driver and his little bottle disappearing into the border guards quarters with the head ...
A Destroyed City
On 10th of June this year, violent ethnic clashes between the Kyrgyz and Uzbek people erupted in Osh and in some other cities of southern Kyrgyzstan. As a result of this, according to some estimated 2000 people died within a few days and as many 400 000 ...
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