We’re packing our bags, we’re not quite ready to go but hopefully we’ll get it all together before we have to board a flight on Sunday. Destination, Bangkok. It was never our plan to fly out of Central Asia but visa muddles have left us with little choice and after fighting bureaucracy for far too […] Read More »
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An unexpected left turn
796km Karakol-Bishkek We’d travelled all the way from Karakol, some 300km, with the plan to turn right at the end of the lake Issyk-Kul. We were going to Bishkek. That’s what we’d been planning to do for over a week. It’s what we told Tamara, who runs a peaceful guesthouse in Tamga where we spent […] Read More »
The bumpy road to Karakol
672km Taldykorgan-Karakol Where to start on a journey that’s taken us across some of Kazakhstan’s more remote and beautiful places over the past eight days and through the back door into Kyrgyzstan, where we sit now on the edge of one of the world’s largest alpine lakes. How about with the sound of two hundred […] Read More »