Archive: February 14th, 2008
Naryn, where we have a small guesthouse, is a long, thin town in the center of the country that straddles the fast flowing Naryn River and is set between high, steep cliffs.
Bishkek cannot claim to be one of the major cities of the world, like London, Paris or New York. It is, however, the capital city of Kyrgyzstan and does have a number of important and interesting buildings, monuments, parks, museums, galleries, theatres and other places worth seeing or visiting.
Kyrgyzstan (or The Kyrgyz Republic, to give the country its official name) is in the very middle of the Eurasian continent, bordering China (to the east), Kazakhstan (to the north and west), Uzbekistan (to the south and west), and Tajikistan (to the south west and south). (Actually, the geographical center of the Asian continent lies [...]
