Kyrgyzstan Bike-Packing Day 14: Experience Kyrgyz family life Kati wakes up and pronounces this to have been the best tent sleep of the trip so far. It’s a good start. We polish off the rice from last night, washed down with condensed milk coffee and we are pumped to hit the climb! It turns out…
Kyrgyzstan Bike-Packing Day 13: Getting off the beaten track As we head out past the next yurt camp, we see about 15 top end cross country mountain bikes lying on the grass. We pull in to see what’s what and sure enough, it’s for a group of Israelis on an organized tour. Their local Kyrgyz…
Kyrgyzstan Bike- Packing Day 12: Yurting Again Sleep definitely does the trick and I feel great after a clean, warm night in a proper bed. My appetite has returned for breakfast, thank goodness! We have a relatively short and easy day today, so it’s a lazy start and we shop for food on the way…
Kyrgyzstan Bike- Packing Day 11: Two days in one After a breakfast of chai, bread, butter, cream and keifer (soured milk – like Amasi), Yurt lady (we never did get her name), sends us off with a bag of bread and a plastic cup of homemade butter. We protest that it will melt, but she…
Kyrgyzstan Bike- Packing Day 10: Splitting up the Team Breakfast consists of 3 hard fried eggs each plus some bread (fresh!!) and jam. Finally, we get fresh bread, but alas, no butter. Steve and Kati both eat hungrily – looks promising, but the pong that permeates the place after Steve visits the loo is distinctly…
Bike Packing Day 9: And it all goes tits up Steve wakes feeling worse than ever – he’s got the runs in earnest now and Kati is feeling generally sore and fluey. I feel fine. We can’t stay here. We’ll have to push on the 24km to Bayertov, where we know there’s a guest house.…