Arslanbob, Kyrgyzstan

We headed up into the hills to a small local town called Arslanbob for our first home stay. As we slowly climbed up the valley the air became much cooler and it started to rain, really rain. This was the first rain we had seen since March so it was a ...

... . It is worth the climb. The view of the long white plume of the waterfall on one side and back down the river valley towards Arslanbob on the other are breathtaking. I sit and look and take shots and rest. Time for the descent. There is a path down the ...

... dry plain and scrubby this narrow valley is green and lush and I pass through woods and groves of trees. I am heading for Arslanbob where the biggest walnut grove on earth exists. Created, I am later told by Hayat, by a gardener commissioned by Mohammed ...

... . Unlike the roads. After more than ten countries we thought we had seen everything you could with roads. Wrong, so wrong. Kyrgyzstan is divided into two major regions divided by a huge mountain range and the money for roading seems to be only spent in the ...