I kept reading books set in the mountains of central Asia, and thought it would be nice to go there some day.
I'm not very keen on visiting oppressive dictatorships (OK, with a fairly high threshold - I've been to China and plan to go again, and would like to go to Iran for the architecture), which rules out Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan for me. I'd heard enough tales of Kyrgyzstan as the Switzerland of Central Asia and of the wondrousness of its mountains that, when I saw a link at the end of a BBC programme to Wild Frontiers and found on their Web site that they were running a specific Kyrgyzstan trip, I jumped for it.
The scenery is as amazing as they said; the people are friendly, the yurts are surprisingly warm and comfortable and the fresh-baked bread in the yurt-camps was wonderful.
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Date: 2014-09-14 09:14 am (UTC)I'm not very keen on visiting oppressive dictatorships (OK, with a fairly high threshold - I've been to China and plan to go again, and would like to go to Iran for the architecture), which rules out Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan for me. I'd heard enough tales of Kyrgyzstan as the Switzerland of Central Asia and of the wondrousness of its mountains that, when I saw a link at the end of a BBC programme to Wild Frontiers and found on their Web site that they were running a specific Kyrgyzstan trip, I jumped for it.
The scenery is as amazing as they said; the people are friendly, the yurts are surprisingly warm and comfortable and the fresh-baked bread in the yurt-camps was wonderful.