Tag: Karakol
We had made Karakol our base for the last couple of days, but even though there was loads we hadn’t seen, it was time to move on. Just…
Karakol may be Kyrgyzstan’s fourth largest city, but it feels little more than a small basic town, filled with tired Soviet concrete apartments and wooden ‘gingerbread’ houses. But,…
After getting lost yesterday at Jeti Oguz, we took extra precautions this time. I had a second, more detailed trail map, and I also loaded the map into…
Last night before he left, Kas mentioned that he was headed out to a nice hiking area (though not to go hiking himself) called Jeti Oguz and that…
A good friend of ours, who was an English teacher on the JET programme with me in Hokkaido and also a resident snowbum in Niseko, made a trip…