Archive: September, 2010
If last week was a Three Day Week, this week has been a Four Day Week. Friday marked the end of Ramadan, and is known here as Orozo Ait, (although elsewhere in the Muslim world it has different names – for example: “Eid al Fitr”), and is a public holiday. Because it is based on [...]
We had an interesting problem with a client’s payment for a tour last month. Yes, we do have tourists in Kyrgyzstan … despite this year’s “little local difficulty” … not as many not as many as last year, nor as many as would have liked or hoped for. As is often the case, there was [...]
Have you noticed how history seems to have a habit of repeating itself. The actual circumstances vary in detail, of course, but the situations and the way that people react often bear remarkable similarities. I have written before how struck I was by the similarities between how the situations evolved in Russia in 1917 and [...]
Here in Kyrgyzstan it is traditional to think of the tourist season as ending on September 27th, the International Day of Tourism. In fact, for most of the tourism industry the season is much shorter. The vast majority of tourists who visit the country are usually from Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Siberia and they mass on [...]
