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 […]
Bel-Tam Yurt Camp at Issyk-Kul Lake
The Bel-Tam Yurt Camp lies 5 km east of Bokonbaevo. We stayed overnight at the Almaluu Yurt Camp about 2 km away. But we want to take the opportunity to visit this camp. So we drive for lunch to Bel-Tam Yurt Camp. While Almaluu Yurt Camp is surrounded by greenery, Bel-Tram Yurt Camp* is right […]
Almaluu Yurt Camp
The Almaluu Yurt Camp* is located in the middle of nature, far from settlements. As we come out of the yurt at sunrise, veils of mist rise and open up the view of the mountains of the Tian Shan. The Issyk-Kul lake is 500 meters away. In eastern direction are some paddocks. At any time, […]
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 […]