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What we would skip in Kyrgyzstan
This is the article that costs us money and earns the trust, so we write it carefully.
What to eat in Kyrgyzstan, and where
Kyrgyz food gets a bad write-up, and if you only ate the national dishes for ten days you would understand why. This…
Song-Kul and horse trekking, described honestly
Song-Kul is the photograph that sells Kyrgyzstan: a lake at about 10,000 feet (3,000 m) with no building on its shore, white…
What does a trip to Kyrgyzstan cost?
Kyrgyzstan is the least expensive country in our library and the one where money buys the least improvement. Both halves of that…
Kyrgyzstan for the first time
People arrive in Kyrgyzstan with a photograph in their head. It is usually the same photograph: white yurts on green grass, horses,…
The best two-week route through Kyrgyzstan
Fourteen days is the length at which Kyrgyzstan stops being a lap of the north and becomes a country. It is also…
Kyrgyzstan month by month, and the four-month season
Most countries have a best time to visit. Kyrgyzstan has an open season and a closed one, and the gap between them…
Kyrgyzstan with children
Kyrgyzstan is one of the best family destinations in Central Asia and one of the easiest to get wrong, and both facts…
Karakol and the Issyk-Kul shore
Song-Kul gets the photograph. Karakol is where a Kyrgyzstan trip actually works.
How many days do you need in Kyrgyzstan?
Ten days is the working answer and fourteen is the better one, and the reason is not that there is more to…
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