It is our last day in Kyrgyzstan. We start the day with a visit to the wedding palace. It was renovated with the support of USAID. As we already know from Osh, the Kyrgyz love glamorous wedding celebrations. The wedding cars parked in front of the palace beat everything we have seen before. Besides long […]
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Tulpar-Tash and Eki Chat Yurt Camp
Before leaving Jyrgalan, we have the opportunity to visit a high pasture area. After we cross the little creek that flows through Jyrgalan, we come to a steeply rutted uphill sand road. Our driver Sergej has to concentrate to not sit-up the car somewhere. We drive through a small piece of woodland and arrive on […]
Bird’s Eye View of Jyrgalan
We came to Jyrgalan at the right time to attend the summer festival. The Jyrgalan summer festival is an event with cultural, artistic and sporting elements. Singers, musicians, and dancers perform. One shows craft products and makes a fashion show. There is a Manaschi and games, involving the spectators. Highlights are horse games, such as […]
Bird’s Eye View of Karakol
Karakol lies between the eastern end of the largest lake in Kyrgyzstan, the Issyk-Kul, and the Tian Shan mountain range. The city was founded in 1860 as a Russian military outpost. Yet, Karakol did only develop when research travelers started to investigate the region between China and Kyrgyzstan. In 1888, Russian military and geographer Przhevalsky […]
Broken Heart and the Seven Bulls
We further continued our journey to the east along the Issyk-Kul. At Shalba we turn off to the south and drive in the direction of the Tian-Shan mountains. Our destination is the Jeti-Oguz Resort, about 25 km southwest of Karakol. But before that, we stop at Broken Heart Rock. As soon as we get out […]
Village festival at Pentecost in Eckfeld
Already in 2014, we attended the Village festival at Pentecost. It is staged by the volunteer fire department in Eckfeld. This year we decided to visit it again. Eckfeld, a municipality in Rhineland-Palatine, became known for his prehistoric excavations. The Pentecost festival is famous beyond the village limits, especially because of the freshly baked bread. […]
Fairy Tale Canyon – Skazka Canyon
After we learned how to set up a yurt and how to produce Shyrdaks, and a visit of the Bel-Tam Yurt Camp, a visit of the Fairy Tale Canyon, in Kyrgyz Kan’on Skazka, is on our agenda. For a while, we drive in the direction of the Karakol, before we turn right into a dusty […]
Bird’s Eye View of Osh
Finally, we can test the DJI Phantom 4 drone, kindly made available by USAID during our stay in Kyrgyzstan. We spent two evenings charging the batteries and installing the latest updates. This had turned out to be more difficult than expected, as DJI completely changed the installation process from Phantom 3 to Phantom 4. But now […]
Birds Eye View of Altrich in Spring – Germany
Altrich, a rural municipality in the district Bernkastel-Wittlich, is bounded by highways between Eifel and Mosel. Here, the freeways form an important traffic hub between Cologne and Trier and further to Luxembourg, Saarbrücken or Mannheim, as well as from Brussels in Belgium to Frankfurt am Main. It is planned that the connection from Belgium to […]