Caravanistan

You will have to book private transportation from Song Kol to Naryn and Tash Rabat (and back to Naryn) unless you want to spend lots of time waiting and possibly/likely not getting a ride. I haven't been to Tash Rabat, but I don't think there's much to do there: it's a caravanserai in an isolated va...

You could try the "Soviet Military Maps" Android app.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta ... tmaps.free

At the top of every forum page you will see this:

"Forum rules
Before asking a visa question, make sure you have read the relevant visa article about the country. Overview page: http://caravanistan.com/visa/"

Basically all your answers can be found there.

Taxi might be theoretically quicker, but with a train you have a set schedule you can plan around, not to mention a comfortable journey. With a share taxi, on the other hand, you have to sit around and wait for the car to fill up, maybe drive around for a while picking up other passengers or hunt fo...

steven wrote:

cherishka wrote:We hired Yar Mohammad as our guide, he was incredible and personable, spoke great English, sincere and experienced.

Yar Mohammed has since gotten a very, very bad review.

viewtopic.php?f=7&t=4974

It actually sounds like both reviewers traveled in July 2017...

Chain Reaction Cycles will ship to Kazakhstan at a pretty reasonable cost.

http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/

All your visa answers are on the Turkmenistan visa page here, but the upshot is that your transit visa will be rejected and you will only get a tourist visa for the duration of your tour.

We are also a couple planning to leave Osh 15th June, is there anyone interested? Any hostel or meeting point in Osh for travellers? Thanks You have a good chance of meeting others with similar plans at any of the guesthouses in Osh, and Osh Guesthouse has a board you can use to try and share trans...

In my opinion the least interesting parts are Tashkent and the Ferghana valley. Osh itself isn't that interesting, either. Going from Osh to Song Kul to Tash Rabat to Kashgar via the Torugart Pass will be the most expensive part, as it requires private transport (and the Torugart pass must be arrang...

Sprodicleson wrote:Talking to the locals here, it sounds as though getting a car (with or without a driver) may not be too hard for a reasonable price.

Actually, I expect that getting a car without driver would be very difficult. For a random local to do this would be basically unheard of.