(Nowhere near as exciting as my last post of photo tips, but more practical, perhaps?) I like to think I’ve picked up some skills in taking acceptable photographs from a moving vehicle, considering that Kyrgyzstan is so vast that I’ve found myself zooming past some amazing landscapes for five or more hours at a time. …
Tag Archives: Kochkor
the road between Kochkor and Song-Kul
There’s not much to see on the drive between Kochkor and Song Kul. Maybe some quirky things, like an old water tank that’s been painted and converted into some sort of shop or house. (And the cluster of Uzbek brothels, no photos of those.) Eventually the scenery starts to change and the car becomes a …
Standing still for 10 minutes
Kanybek, the driver for our Song-Kul weekend, dropped us off at a mini-mart in Kochkor to stock up on snacks and water while he filled up the car with gas to prepare for the rest of the drive (there are no mini-marts or gas stations in Song-Kul). While waiting ten minutes or so for him …
gateway to Song-Kul
I’m not really the most touristy person in Kyrgyzstan. I receive questions from you wonderful people sometimes about places to visit in Kyrgyzstan and my reaction is usually something like, “Umm…I know a good coffee shop that’s a five-minute walk from my house,” even though what you were really wanting to know is which random …
back to the salt mines
As weird as I thought it was when the Kyrgyz government shuffled work days to make a three-day weekend out of International Women’s Day (which fell on a Tuesday), I was grateful for the unexpected time off, which I spent in Kochkor, a town about five hours from Bishkek on the way to Naryn. It …
snapshots from Kochkor
On a complete whim, I went to Kochkor with friends for the Women’s Day three-day-weekend. (You see, Women’s Day fell on a Tuesday this year, but for some reason, Kyrgyzstan felt it was still necessary to place it on a three-day-weekend. Solution? Saturday became a working day. I really do appreciate public holidays in Kyrgyzstan.) …