Cholpon Ata, Kyrgyzstan

... 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 we ...

We left the campsite in the valley and to be honest I was sorry to leave such a beautiful place. The goal was to travel right around the lake so we had to find somewhere to stay for the night. Olga I think needed a hotel so she found one for us. It was a ...

To say our stay in an old Soviet sanatorium on the banks of Lake Issyk-kul was an experience would be understating the fact. We were all looking forward to some R&R after the rigours of more bushcamping - what we got was a cross between that classic film ...

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