Kyrgyzstan: Where Hospitality Meets Untamed Beauty
Kyrgyz hospitality in this faraway country is a thing to be savored and enjoyed. Visiting Bishtek in Krygyzstan.
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Kyrgyzstan: Soaring with the Eagles
Meeting trainers of eagles and carpet makers in Kyrgysztan, where the practice has thrived for thousands of years.
Kyrgyzstan: A Horse Trek to Song-Kol Lake
Horse Trek In Kyrgyzstan through the Jalgyz-Karagai pass to Song-Kol Lake. Trekking in central Asia on horseback in the Borbor Alabas and Moldo-Too mountains.
Mare’s Milk: Kyrgyzstan’s White Nectar
The author wanted to know what mare’s milk tastes like in Kyrgyzstan, so she found a cafe and drank kumis, fermented mare’s milk. The natural milk was better.
Kyrgyzstan: Reflections on a Revolution
Sophie Ibbotson’s eye-witness account of the April, 2010, revolution in Kyrgyzstan that toppled the government of President Kurmanbek Bakiyev.
Dead Goat Polo, National Sport of Kyrgyzstan
Dead Goat Polo: Sophie Ibbotson goes to the village of Ashu in Kyrgyzstan to watch a game of Kok Boru, Dead Goat Polo, the national sport of Kyrgyzstan.
Kyrgyzstan: Wild City of Sex, Drugs and Rock & Roll
Kyrgyzstan: David Rich visits Kyrgyzstan Bishkek and finds it to be a vanguard of Western permissiveness in the world of strict Islam.
A Yurt-Stay in Kyrgyzstan
A hiking tour of Kyrgystan, staying with local shepherd families using CBT Kyrgyzstan to help bring them together.