Others, less so

Gorge of the Naryn river, somewhere between Jalal-Abad and Kazarman


Naryn river, just downstream of the great Toktogul dam


At a summit above Tash Rabat. That green band just to the right of the walkers is the river along which the Silk Road ran.

Some bits of Kyrgyzstan look rather like the south of France

Yes, I saw them playing that Central Asian game ...

Called Bushkazi in Afghanistan, in Kyrgyzstan it's called Uluk Tartoosh, which means almost exactly Carpe Capram: seize the goat!

This picture is representative of the action; the fact that you cannot see the goat (I think it's in the hand of the man with the red stripe on his anorak) is only one of the things which has impeded the global spread of this game.

Unbounded pasture, with snow-capped mountains, flocks, and some yurts

Lake Song-Kul

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