A kumiss-seller at evening

The tour group assembled above Song-Kul lake

Quite a striking bit of calligraphic artwork in the former-Lenin-museum

In the unlikely event that any of my readers can read calligraphed Arabic, I'd be quite interested to know what the text is

Kyrgyzstan is almost entirely made of illustrations for geology textbooks

These are also Very Wide images; click on them for the full version. I have done something slightly odd with the scaling which I hope makes the small versions look particularly good on Retina displays. The top is the view south from the first major pass on the M41 road out of Bishkek - the thing with red roofs in the far right is a ski resort and you can just see a chair-lift on one of the row of pylons coming down from it. The bottom is one of the passes on the road from Kazarman to Naryn.