On the bus to Karakol, November 6, 2014 This blog is about our experiences travelling from Osh to Bishkek. What connects all the places we visited during this part of the journey, a part from them all being in Kyrgyzstan, is that throughout we have found a abundance of Morrisons (UK) supermarket plastic bags. Each one pleads for reuse to save the environment in English which 99% of the population can not read. One can only conclude that Morrisons cancelled an order with new UK laws imminent (we are not up to date!) or because of a quality issue. Whatever, the solution was to dump the bags on the Kyrgyics who like the rest of the Central Asians use new plastic bags for every item of shopping. We did just see them in the big cities.
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