Country Info
- Bishkek
- Capital
- Som (KGS)
- Currency
- 4,753,003
- Population
- KG
- Country Code
Kyrgyzstan Slideshow
Kyrgyzstan
Travel Blogs from Kyrgyzstan
speculation is exciting
bishkek. warm showers and sun, big buildings and pricey restaurants. didn't think we'd get here, chong and collins and i, but here we are. the past couple of days have been a tutorial in how important information gets passed along in the kyrg. a ...
the grease of the samsa
another week of classes enters the halls of yore, and craver emits a faint sigh, lights a cigarette and vows to sleep til noon tomorrow. this never happens, though. when i was a little kid i used to make the same promise every friday on the bus home from ...
hot or not (hot)?
... i'm too busy to keep up with this thing more than thrice- yearly, i think. so it goes. anyway, here's what's been happening. kyrgyzstan is nice in the autumn, though it doesn't have that autumny feel to it. autumn is my most visceral season, i ...
Karakol
ushakchiler!
my blog is giving me the business right now. so i'm gonna upload the photos and vamoose. ( 30 minutes later) i really tried to load more photos, but again, this business i speak ...
saturday
... melted on their southern slopes, leaving a thick racing stripe of white down the middle as far as they go. it's a beautiful place, this kyrgyzstan, and even if the winter does set in again, at least we get to feel the onset of spring one more time. and ...
Bishkek - capital of Kyrgyzstan
... grand scale, it even had a yurt on one of the floors. There were a lot of bronze statutes depicting various moments in Kyrgyzstan history, mostly during the Soviet era. One of most fascinating murals was one with Ronald Regan riding an atomic bomb like a ...
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 ...
Karakol - on the shores of Issyk-Kol
... which was pretty straight forward then visited the CBT office to find out about horse riding. CBT had a very good reputation in Kyrgyzstan but from our experience in Karakol we found them incredibly unhelpful. We left the office with still no horse riding ...
Altyn Arashan - hot springs for cold people
... arrived not long after us and immediately went for a skinny-dip. Very brave! As if to prove that mountain weather in Kyrgyzstan is especially unpredictable we were soon running for cover as massive raindrops began to pelt down all around us. We watched ...
pictures for you and the ones you love
here you go. these took forever, so cherish them at least twice as ...
resuming the blog
my first blog entry since the states. lotsa catching up to do, but i'll keep it brief. yes, i'm in kyrgyzstan. i've been here for 5 pretty amazing, totally blogless months. i live in kyzl- soo, a town of 15,000 on the south- eastern shore of lake issyk- ...
The Switzerland of Central Asia
Kyrgyzstan is a land of unspoiled natural beauty, with perpetually snow-capped peaks, roaring mountain streams, creeping glaciers and crystal lakes. Occupied by the Tien Shan and Pamir mountain ranges, 94% of the country is mountainous; ...
City of Revolution
Ich kann mich noch sehr gut an das Jahr 2005 erinnern, als ich in der Endphase meines Studiums war und über die Bildschirme Nachrichtenbeiträge mit hektischen, unscharfen Bildern aus Kirgistan flimmerten. Der Präsident wurde vertrieben, es gab ...
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 ...
Our Introduction to Kyrgyzstan
... is 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 ...
Meet Stan (the man)
... tapestry, shimmering below mountain peaks. I meet a 6 foot 4 Queenslander in Karakol and we agree that while in Kyrgyzstan, a land famous for its horses, we should head into the mountains 'astride a tough and noble beast'. Unfortunately there ...
Crazy Kazakh Kids
My visa was ready the next afternoon. I decided that I had no time to waste, so I started driving even though the sun was already low in the sky. After studying my Kazakhstan atlas, I determined that there were two main routes that I could ...
Kyrgy mountain high
Almas, our guide, a handsome Kyrgyz with a disarming smile, shakes our hands with the customary post-shake touch of the heart and immediately says "You very tall. All Australians very tall?". Nathan smiles with falsity and replys "In Australia we are ...
First Lections, First Trip, Firts Visitors etc.
... because they think that ponys are so cute. Anyway, horseback riding is definitely something I want to learn during my time in Kyrgyzstan and I think I’ll find time for skiing some weekend as well, even if it’s been probably more than ten ...
A Destroyed City
... 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 Uzbeks were ...
From Bishkek to Lake Issykul
... wheat and corn gave way to undulating pastures with lots of cattle and horses. We marveled about how geographically different Kyrgyzstan was from Uzbekistan. The two countries are chalk and cheese in terms of the countryside. Whilst the Chalk Uzbekistan ...