Hitch hiking Kyrgyzstan's back roads
July 31st 2010 What had for the week I had stayed with herders in the mountains been only a small, distant stain on the vast green floor of the Suusamyr Basin gradually grew into the concrete and mud-brick Suusamyr village as the ride I had hitched bounced slowly towards it over a road that would have blown away in a strong wind.
"If you want," he told me as we crawled down the settlement's gravelly main
... read more