Postcard from Bishkek

Today, ianbek hits a milestone … and joins the shop in the West End of Bishkek with the enticing name, 1000 Melochei - 1000 little things. Actually, like most of the “trade centers” here, 1000 Melochei it is not a single shop; it was originally an open plan space on the ground floor of an apartment building […]

We’ve spent some time over the holiday period reworking the KyrgyzDiary website. we’ve learnt from our experience last year and we hope that the site will be more user friendly and help people to find events that are going on in Kyrgyzstan, and particularly Bishkek, far more easily. Our biggest problem, however, remains the same […]

We have a new web based project: Kyrgyz Diary. At the moment it is only in a test format … because we are trying to work out the logistics of how it will work … and we have a question for you: What would you like to see on the site?

We’ve launched another of our websites in our series of Cultural aspects of life in Kyrgyzstan: the people and their traditional lifestyle and culture; the places and the history of the country; and (especially as we are a tour company) about the tourism potential of the country and the region.  This one is called Crafts.kg

Friday started quietly.  Although the sun was shining when I went down to the office at six, it wasn’t particularly warm.  That didn’t put the crowds off, however, as they gathered early in the morning, creating traffic chaos.  On the way back from the hotel after a meeting I discovered one road clogged with cars […]

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 […]

February 15th: On this day in 2005, a new website was launched which was to quickly establish itself as a major phenomenon on the internet – a video-sharing website on which users can upload, share, and view videos: You Tube. Actually, the domain name was registered the day before the launch; the first video, (a 19 second clip […]

I was ten years old, and still at Primary School on January 1st, 1964, when the disc jockey Jimmy Saville presented the very first edition of the United Kingdom’s flagship programme reviewing the pop music charts, Top of the Pops, (TOTP).  To be honest, I can’t remember actually watching it, but I am sure that […]

I came across an interesting dilemma last week concerning our site www.links.kg. The idea behind the site is to provide links to webpages which concern travel to Kyrgyzstan, in particular to travellers’ tales, where they give accounts of their visits to Kyrgyzstan and their impressions of the country and what it has to offer.  We […]

We’ve added three new spherical panoramas to our website www.see.kg … The entrance chamber to the Kan-i-Gut caves in Batken A beach at Bosteri on the Norther shore at Lake Issyk Kul The square outside the Philharmonia in Central Bishkek at nighttime