Kyrgyzstan - In the evening, I take a walk through Bishkek. Bishkek is a spacious city with large squares, wide boulevards, and expansive parks. It is often called the greenest capital in the world—and I immediately understand why. I pass by crumbling Soviet apartment ...

Kyrgyzstan - The center of Karakol feels much more like a village. Yet the city has 75,000 inhabitants. The sights are all concentrated around the main road running through the town. I walk to the Chinese mosque. The entirely wooden mosque strongly resembles a Buddhist ...

Kyrgyzstan - On the western side of the lake, the road turns off. In the small village, we are already expected. A car drives ahead of us into the mountains. Just outside the village, I pass a landfill and a cemetery. Then the dirt road leads deeper into the valley. ...

Kyrgyzstan - We use the afternoon to explore Osh. First, we visit the Lenin Monument. Osh is home to the largest Lenin statue in Kyrgyzstan. Then we drive on to the Suleiman-Too Rocks, also known as the Throne of Solomon. It is said that the Prophet Mohammed once ...