Postcard from Bishkek

According to the Flagcounter statistics, we have just passed 5000 visitors from 132 different countries to the site since the counter was installed last September … with 11420 individual page views. I know that’s not a lot by  some standards … there are many sites that get far more ‘hits’, but it is still a milestone [...]

The name of Ella Maillart may not be one of those that immediately springs to mind either when thinking of Kyrgyzstan, explorers or travellers.  Her story, however, is quite extraordinary. In the 1930′s she undertook a journey through Soviet Turkestan, (though parts of present day Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan), writing a book about her experiences: “Turkestan [...]