Song-Kul Lake
Travel Blogs from Song-Kul Lake, Kyrgyzstan
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Song Kul Lake
... to overnight at the same tourist camp that we went to). I stayed at the yurt camp which was located right next to Lake Song Kul, an alpine lake. It is beautiful. The French couple camped right by the lake. The accommodation arranged through an ...
Dead Goat Polo
... shocked (or amused) by our equine inexperience! One other yurt-related fact for you: the circular image in the middle of Kyrgyzstan's flag is a tyndyk, a wheel with two three-ply struts, which supports the roof and forms a hole in the middle of the ...
Goat Polo it's the real thing!
... as we held our breath (there wasn't much to hold at this height) and smiling as ever completed our first river crossing. Song Kul Lake is one of nature’s finest mountain lakes. It is surrounded by vast mountains and is completely treeless as we are ...
Mad Donkeys and Sore Asses
... horse ride. The ride was spectacular, we forded rivers ran the horses, well walked really, especially my fat boy, wandered into the lake and then headed to the hills. Many hours later we arrived back into the camp, feeling more like a Mongol warrior than ...
Mud Mud and Mud
... a sandy river bed to the lakeshore. Three metre bushes shielded the lakeshore from the world so it was time for a nudie swim. The lake has a shallow sandy bottom followed by rocks. The world is truly strange, here I was over 2500 metres high and about to ...
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