Osh>Bishkek

First day in Kyrgyzstan... just arrive in Osh after quite a bus ride on a muddy "road". I don t see that much of the city, which looks like a village and is supposed to be the second bigger town of the country, and I jump straight on a shared taxi to do the 700 to 800 kms that links Osh to the capital Bishkek. I m quite tired and pised about all those tranportations but there are really no points staying in Osh. Plus, my friend Arnaud is waiting for me in Bishkek since a few days already.

The 15h trip is quite beautifull, green hills all the way long with yurts, riding horses nomads, and tons of sheeps and horses walking around in total freedom. Me and the 4 other guys of the car stopped for a quick lunch...and vodka of course.




Bishkek, capital of Kyrgyzstan, looks more like a village to me, little streets, trees and parks all around, the city center is just empty. Time seemed to have stopped since the russians left the place. I spend two full days there walking around the city and try to find interesting places...haven t find them. But still it s quite a place to be seen with the population half Kyrgyz and half Russian. The transition between the muslim Uigur population in western China and the blond Russian/Kyrgyz population here is quite a shock.... I was expecting something a little bit smoother than that.












We are experiencing the local life there and are spending our nights in THE
bar of the town full of 50's americans expats here for construction or gold mining and who are slowly dying in this country where it seems that there nothing to do for them but drinking. Cheking out a club in Bishkek too...quite a night yup !!!

But hey, time to move little bit and go for a little trek...