The colour of Kyrgyzstan is not red, as the flag suggests, or as might be associated with the recent spillage of blood in the south of the country. In fact there is not one colour you can put to it, instead it consists of a kaleidoscope of colours and if you have ever hiked in the Kyrgyz Mountains you will know what I mean. Here you wade through a multi coloured world of flowers of all sizes and shapes. Red, blue, purple, white, yellow, green, pink and everything in between is represented in the natural world that surrounds you in the green mountains of the Tien Shan. Kyrgyzstan, a country in turmoil, and because of this a country that is being avoided by most tourists. Good for me perhaps, but bad for the local population. As
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