Sadly, our time in Kyrgyzstan is just about to end….. We’re currently in the second city, Osh, and gearing up to set off for the Tajikistan border tomorrow, aiming to cross on Tuesday. On the trip so far, not only has Kyrgyzstan been the most difficult country to spell, it’s also been the most beautiful. […]
Monthly Archives: October 2016
One for the Road
We drove over a mountain today! Where the Japanese would have built a tunnel the Kyrgyzs built a road. The said tunnel would have been expensive, over engineered, straight and pretty damn boring. This road, on the other hand, was cheap to build, extremely basic, curvy and absolutely totally exciting.
A Tale from a Drama Queen High on a Mountain Pass
On the way from Bishkek to Osh tourists sometimes take a detour to Lake Song Kol; a beautiful lake edged by mountains. There are various roads to this lake but we decided we would take a little used high road and travel over a mountain pass. It would be about 160km from the turn off […]
Pardon me for droning on
Quite often when people have seen some of the videos we’ve been making the first question is often “What drone do you use?” So here’s a post to answer that very question.
The Mountain Goats
We are in the eastern corner of Kyrgyzstan where the country narrows and the mountain ranges create a natural border with Kazakhstan and China. From entering the border (which took no more than 15 minutes,) we drove straight to Karakol: a large town that sits on the eastern edge of Lake Issik Kol. The town […]
Observations on Kazakhstan
#1 Almaty is the city of apples #2 Same as in Eastern Russia and Mongolia; most of the older generation have full-on gold teeth #3 The traditional countryside houses look very similar to their Russian and Mongolian counterparts but are painted white with blue window surrounds #4 Nobody has beards or moustaches #5 Many of […]
Self portrait
Not usually ones for ‘selfies’, we took this a few days back in the middle of nowhere in Kazakhstan 😉