Bishkek
Here in Bishkek at the moment. There is not alot to see here, its just a rather modern looking city. The spring weather is great though, blue skies and 27 degrees today!
Arrived here two days ago by shared taxi from Osh (old Mercedes station wagon). The taxi took 12 hours, crossing over two snow covered mountain passes, of which the highest was over 3500m high. Its is crop sowing time here, most of the fields passed on the way here were ripped up. Mostly it seems to be done by tractors, (none of which seem to have been bought since Soviet times), with the occasional horse pulling along a one furrow plough. In one instance, I saw a man pulling the plough - with the wife steering it!
Applied for a Kazakhstan visa yesterday. Cost $35 and I pick it up tomorrow evening. Wanted to go to Uzbekistan but first you have to ring the embassy for an appointment (5 days), then you have to wait for the visa processing (14 days +), and then pay $72 - Feck 'em.
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Arrived here two days ago by shared taxi from Osh (old Mercedes station wagon). The taxi took 12 hours, crossing over two snow covered mountain passes, of which the highest was over 3500m high. Its is crop sowing time here, most of the fields passed on the way here were ripped up. Mostly it seems to be done by tractors, (none of which seem to have been bought since Soviet times), with the occasional horse pulling along a one furrow plough. In one instance, I saw a man pulling the plough - with the wife steering it!Applied for a Kazakhstan visa yesterday. Cost $35 and I pick it up tomorrow evening. Wanted to go to Uzbekistan but first you have to ring the embassy for an appointment (5 days), then you have to wait for the visa processing (14 days +), and then pay $72 - Feck 'em.
posted by Sean at 12:38 pm
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