The second of the Central Asian countries we visited in Spring 2015, a journey captured in the ‘Stans’ blog. Beautiful nature, and small-scale towns, very pleasant but without specific highlights. A few locations have been linked below for easy access, but they are not different from the blog entries.
second city of Kyrgyzstan, yet small-scale
Kyrgyz capital with a provicial town atmosphere
main resort town at the Issyk-Kol lake
The ‘Stans’ Blog
- 01. the ‘Stans’ plan
- 02. the ‘Stans’ continued
- 03. the visas
- 04. the arrival
- 05. Nukus
- 06. the museum
- 07. the Aral Sea
- 08. the mud castles
- 09. Khiva
- 10. Bukhara
- 11. the wine tasting
- 12. Samarkand
- 13. Shakhrisabz
- 14. Tashkent
- 15. the opportunist
- 16. the Fergana Valley
- 17. Margilan
- 18. Osh
- 19. Bishkek
- 20. the balbals
- 21. Almaty
- 22. Cholpon-Ata
- 23. Karakol
- 24. Nicolai Przhevalsky
- 25. the hot springs
- 26. back to Bishkek
- 27. back to Osh
- 28. Uzgun
- 29. to Karakul
- 30. Karakul
- 31. the homestay
- 32. the geoglyphs
- 33. to Murghab
- 34. Murghab
- 35. to Alichur
- 36. to Langar
- 37. to Ishkashim
- 38. the Afghan market
- 39. Khorog
- 40. to Dushanbe
- 41. Dushanbe
- 42. the tunnel
- 43. Penjikent
- 44. Istaravshan
- 45. the way back
- 46. looking back