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Kyrgyztan: Scrabble's Favorite Country
... are empty though have revolved with many interesting travellers, friends.
On the verge of my departure for China. So yes, I got my Chinese visa and I have 12 days to get to the border. Which means I need to bus some of it. Which of course blows up my whole "Get to Kashgar soley by bike" goal I set. Okay. No more setting imperatives... they just lead me into expectations that crush me when I can't meet them!! From now on, I'm just going to make my way East-ish ...some of it ...
Back to Bishkek
... without an entry stamp in our passport, we could anticipate all kinds of trouble when in the country and definitely when getting out. So we resigned ourselves to taking the well-trodden path which meant retracing our steps back to Bishkek and crossing through the border control post just north of it.
The shared-taxi ride back to Bishkek in the afternoon was uneventful. By this time we were used to the maniacal driving, and this driver was ...
Het hooggebergte in
... tribunes. Fascinerend voor mij, moeilijk om aan te zien voor Nitzan (vegetarier en grote dierenliefhebber).
Leuke anekdote : Op een avond chinees gaan eten met Nitzan en een Engelse Hongaar. Omdat wij niet wisten dat elk nummertje een gans vol bord ging zijn, hadden we per ongeluk dus veel te veel besteld. Maar het beste gerecht was voor de vegetarier aan tafel. Hij had tofu besteld en kreeg ook tofu .... MET vlees !
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Almaty's little brother?
... room with access to spotless bathroom facilities, good wifi and a small meeting area in the garden where we were to spend most of the next 9 days.
Bishkek is a bit like Almaty’s little brother. Similar architecture, boulevards and parks made walking around, even on the hottest days a pleasure. They have a great "Gourmet"/Turkish supermarket where you can buy all those things you miss from home, beer sold in every street corner shop and a number of excellent ...
A week in Bishkek and beyond
... for repairs. David and Dorian insisted that it was down to the landlord to pay, not the residents, but she persisted in screaming and gesticulating wildly, while our hosts sought help from the friendly women next door. The flurry of (paid) anger the woman unleashed was intensely startling, and after some negotiation with the landlord, they paid the woman, who promptly stopped yelling and moved on to her next victim. In the midst of the wealth created in Bishkek by and for a ...