Song-Kul Lake, Kyrgyzstan

... to overnight at the same tourist camp that we went to). I stayed at the yurt camp which was located right next to Lake Song Kul, an alpine lake. It is beautiful. The French couple camped right by the lake. The accommodation arranged through an ...

... shocked (or amused) by our equine inexperience! One other yurt-related fact for you: the circular image in the middle of Kyrgyzstan's flag is a tyndyk, a wheel with two three-ply struts, which supports the roof and forms a hole in the middle of the ...

... as we held our breath (there wasn't much to hold at this height) and smiling as ever completed our first river crossing. Song Kul Lake is one of nature’s finest mountain lakes. It is surrounded by vast mountains and is completely treeless as we are ...

... horse ride. The ride was spectacular, we forded rivers ran the horses, well walked really, especially my fat boy, wandered into the lake and then headed to the hills. Many hours later we arrived back into the camp, feeling more like a Mongol warrior than a ...