Today we woke up early to the light streaming through our window. We got up and went for breakfast before it was, once again, time to depart for another day of exploring. Our first stop was a local cooperative centre where they produce traditional handicrafts, including almost everything you need to make a comfortable yurt. […]

Today, after twisting and turning all night, sometimes too cold, sometimes too hot, I woke up to the sun shining through a few holes in our yurt. I got out and met up with Ji to go grab breakfast in the communal yurt. Since I was still feeling sick, I mostly skipped breakfast. After packing […]

Today I woke up not feeling very good. My stomach was hurting, so I decided not to grab any breakfast and instead just got ready for our hike. We started the hike by leaving our guesthouse and walking through the city towards the edge, where we could see the gates that represented the start of […]

Today we woke up early at 6:30 after a not-so-great night and got ready just in time for breakfast. There, I tried some of the Kyrgyz breakfast cakes before we went back upstairs to grab our stuff and bring it down to the bus. As we got to reception at exactly the time we had […]

I wanted to sleep in today as we went to bed at 4:30am last night, but Antoine insisted on getting up at 9:30am to try our first Kyrgyzstani breakfast. Running on barely 5 hours of sleep, we went down to eat. The hotel breakfast was not traditional and underwhelming to be honest, so we just […]