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Eish Says: Bactrian camels in the snow - this was an eye-opening moment for me. Bactrian camels have 2 humps (whereas Dromedary camels have only 1). These animals are on...
Eish Says: Yes, triffids really have landed on earth. I wish I knew what this plant really was, but we found it at 300m at Lake Song Kul.
Need a 4x4 for this high gradient pass!
Eish Says: Our transport to Lake Song Kul was in a trusty 4x4 Mitsubishi. It was pre-arranged, as was the accommodation at the lake, through our agent in Bishkek. In fact,...
Yurt: Besh Barmak - eating with 5 fingers
Eish Says: Besh Barmak is Kyrgyz for "5 fingers" which is how you eat it. There is a precise technique which we learnt and really enjoyed practicing! Your hand is cupped...
Soak up the pasture lifestyle: get weaving
Eish Says: The yurts are made from felt: this is a non-woven material. The hair from the goats, sheep, yaks are compressed into a dense fabric. Here, we were told that...
Soak up the pasture lifestyle: get milking
Eish Says: In the morning we woke up at about 6am to watch the yaks being milked. The yak calves are tethered at night so that they do not drink their moms' milk before...
Eish Says: The current structure was probably built about 500 years ago, but there were people using this pasture as a camp site and pasture for 1000 years at least....
In a yurt in a jailoo (pasture)
Eish Says: This place restores the soul. We stayed in a yurt in a pasture just below the Tash Rabat caravanserai. We slept on the floor of the yurt on woven felt and yak...
Naryn Oblasty: Tash Rabat and Lake Song Kul
This is Shell Ultra City of the ancient Silk Road (for those non-South Africans: a gasoline station highway rest stop). For a 1000 years people have been using this jailoo (pasture) to rest and...
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