Those reports are mostly outdated. The road has improved enormously in recent years. You still need to drive carefully because of the mountain bends, ...

For us, the drive was part of the attraction. Every twenty or thirty minutes the landscape seemed to change completely. Wide valleys gradually gave wa...

There are no pills for "altitude." The only medicine is acclimatization.Kyrgyzstan is a mountainous country, and simply being here — even at Issyk-Kul...

And how did you get there and back)?

Or is it better to split it over a couple of days? We’re flying there for the first time.I’m afraid it’ll all feel rushed.But I want to see everything...