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Kyrgyztan: Scrabble's Favorite Country
... the capital!!
It started off pretty good. I mean I show up at the border without a visa and twenty minutes later I'm in! No visa required, no charge ...60 days! YES! What a difference from all the other Central Asian countries! And right from the first town, I was welcomed into the home of strangers and even fed dinner and breakfast. No qualms there!
I was kind of though freaked out when all the signs and menus were in the Cyrillic alphabet adopted from Russia. ...
Back to Bishkek
... pushed away. (This is somewhat akin to the behavior in some south and south-east asian flight where most people unbuckle the seat belts just after take off or immediately after the plane touches down, well before the seat belt sign is switched off). We have seen this drama play out on every single long distance drive in the country and it is puzzling why seat-belt phobia is so widespread around these parts.
It was a bit ...
Bishkek
... asleep, so they walked around the whole house looking for a bed without his permission and they starting shining lights everywhere. The second morning, I saw most of the city in two hours. There are a couple parks and monuments, but nothing special. The government buildings were very small. There are a lot of police officers here and they are not corrupt. I talked to a couple of them and they were interested in me. There were ...
Almaty's little brother?
... quizzing them about bikes, gear and training regimes. It soon became obvious that while a lot of planning (in some cases!) had gone into equipping their bikes, many of them had just gotten on them and started riding, gaining fitness and losing weight as they went. One Japanese girl bought a bike in Kashgar and then rode it over to Kyrgyzstan. 2 couples had come from the UK and one from Germany. Martin and Alex (Melb) and Sergai and Adreinn (NZ/Hungary) had ridden from ...
A week in Bishkek and beyond
... Kyrgyzstan's natural beauty for the first time. A gaggle of horses pranced and galloped at the plateau of a hill, while sheep and cattle grazed on the fertile grassland. We passed a large family group by the riverside who were dismembering an entire sheep for their feast on an open fire. Several cars passed by, most heading for the high peaks in the distance, and some stopping at the small, boxy museum halfway along the valley floor. The driver of one particularly large and ...