Caravanistan

Many thanks for your reply Chanchan. Sorry for the delay. Very helpful advice. I guess it is possible to take it slower? Also with horses do you need to be an experienced rider? Thanks again, Jo

Thanks for your reply and for posting your very interesting blog. So are there more Kyrgyz settlements at the lake or did you go to the main ones? I didn't mean technical climbing just a very steep climb on foot.

Thanks Steven for your reply. Yes when i was there in 2016 there were just 2 big Lenin statues plus some other stuff. Balychky is probably better than it was. They were tarmacing the residential roads and a new supermarket had opened. Still it was pretty shabby though.