Bishkek Guest Houses - Reviews and Rates

Ian here (Mel's trying to get all the map pins put in place for the blog on one of the slowest connections in the known universe!) Well, it has been a while, hasn't it? Let's just say that there aren't many internet cafes between Xi'an and here...just a lot of sheep, yurts, yaks and dodgy cooking. I guess I'd better explain the "we ate in Egypt"...

We may be going to a festival... We did in fact go to a festival, well of sorts. There were actually 8 people in attendance (5 folks in our group and 3 from Belgium) and at least 9 folks putting on the festival. So to me it was really more of a gathering, rather than a "festival". The purpose of the gathering was to see how the Altyn Kol make fe...

Whilst in Naryn I made the decision to go solo for a while. Kerry and Jez had plans to go on a horse trek for a few days and so, having remembered that I have a slightly irrational yet healthy fear of riding any larger than a donkey, I decided to head to Bishkek. Arriving in the Kyrgyz capital was like stepping back 20 years into Soviet Russia. ...