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Lake Issyk-Kol 080608
Me at col Keskev-Bel 080608
Man with bike 060608
Yurt shop 020608
Horses 020608
Hat bus stop 010608
Boy on a donkey 300508
Fruit stall 300508
Wolf cub, Karakol zoo
A languid lynx, in Karakol's depressing little zoo
Karakol's Holy Trinity Cathedral
The sanatorium's 'mineral pool'
Jeti-Orguz sanatorium
The road south past Razbitoye Serdtse, ('Broken Heart')
The road north to Karakol
Red-stone cliffs, from a ridge above Jeti-Orguz
Looking east from Jeti-Orguz, into Ushchelie Drakonov (the Valley of Dragons)
Horses grazing, beneath the red-stone bluffs of Jeti-Orguz
Sitting around the animal market (Karakol)
Old man in an 'ak kalpak' (felt hat) checking out a horse
A kid & his patient little donkey
I got up early Sunday morning, to walk out to the huge Animal Market
Horses being shod, at Karakol's weekly animal market
There's a swing-seat right at the end of the garden
More flowers...
Marzey's has one of the best-tended & beautiful gardens I've ever seen
Flowers in the garden of Marzey's Guesthouse, (Karakol)
Azamat, me & Sultash giving the Aussie thumbs-up in front of their old high school
Azamat, Suyun & Sultash, as we left Pristan beach
Me, Suyun & Azamat at Pristan, on the shore of Lake Issyk-Kol
Suyunduk, Azamat & Sultanbek, with the Karakol Museum care-taker
Suyunduk's new plot of land (in the foreground), right on the edge of town.
The interesting architecture of Karakol's Chinese mosque
Typical road-house toilets
'Chaikhana' (teahouse) on the road to Karakol
Our 'marshrutka', on the road to Karakol
The World War II monument on Victory Square (Bishkek)
A still-defiant Lenin, relegated to the small square behind the State Historical Museum (Bishkek)
A statue to 'Erkindik' (freedom) on Bishkek's Ala-Too Square
Former US President Ronald Reagan, wearing a grinning skull, astride a missile
One of countless such tableaux depicting a heroic Lenin inspiring the masses
Entrance hall of the State Historical Museum, (Bishkek)
The garden of the amazing Bishkek guesthouse I stayed at
Monument to the Martyrs of the Revolution, (Bishkek)
Statue of Manas, the warrior-hero of the epic of the same name
Joanne & Aida, outside the excellent Faiza Cafe
'Memento' photo that we had taken in a Karakol park
Inside a Kyrgyz mosque
Kyrgyz house decorated with traditional designs
Kyrgyz yurts
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Brief history of Kyrgyzstan
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A Central Asian country of incredible natural beauty and proud nomadic traditions, Kyrgyzstan was annexed by Russia in 1864; it achieved independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. Nation-wide demonstrations in the spring of 2005 resulted in the oust...more history

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