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Monthly Archives: August 2018
We Made it to Europe-Istanbul
We had an early flight, 630am, from Bishkek to Istanbul so we called up our Yandex.Taxi app, and a driver was at our door within 10 minutes. The Bishkek airport was hopping this early in the morning, and it was … Continue reading
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Horse Rectum for Dinner in Kyrgyzstan?
Where is Kyrgyzstan? I am not going to act like I was able to pick it out on a map with a high degree of certainty before Katy and I decided to go there. It is between Kazakhstan and China; … Continue reading
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Tagged beer, Bishkek, bishkek Kyrgyzstan, Craft beer bishkek, hiking bishkek, hikinh, hipster, hipster bishkek, internet, Kyrgyzstan, maerket, microbrew, osh market, sim card bishkek, yandex, yandex.taxi
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Thoughts and Musings on Mongolia
I am breaking this post into two parts. The first are things I learned about Mongolia from talking to people that I found interesting and couldn’t fit into other posts. The second part are my thoughts on the country in … Continue reading
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Three Days at Khovsgul in Photos
We spent most of the day driving to lake Khovsgul. Khovsgul is a rather large lake which contains about 2% of the earths fresh water. We had three nights at the lake before we drove to Moron and flew back … Continue reading
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You Don’t Need Electricity to Enjoy Lakes and Hot Springs
What did we do after the yak festival? That was my thought when I started writing this portion of the blog. Day of the week, day of the month, and what order we have done things is getting hard to … Continue reading
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Tagged ger, hot springs, hot springs mongolia, jargal jiguur, jeep, khorgo, khorgo volcano, Mongolia, tourist ger, volcano, white lake
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Mongolian Yak Polo
We left Karakoram and were suppose to have a short drive to visit a temple and a waterfall. Unlike the previous days, we did not review the plan ahead of time. We arrived at a viewpoint overlooking the Orkhon Valley … Continue reading
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Tagged driving, driving mongolia, furgon, horse race, land cruiser, Mongolia, monk, onks, polo, temple, Yak, yak festival, yak polo, yak polo mongolia
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Far Flung Forays 