Kurmanjan Datka (1811-1907)
Kurmanjan Datka also known as the "The Tsaritsa of Alai" or "The Queen of the South", was a stateswoman in Kyrgyzstan, known for her initial resistance to the annexation of…
Read more »Mikhail Vasilyevich Frunze (1885 – 1925)
Mikhail Vasilyevich Frunze was a Bolshevik leader during and just prior to the Russian Revolution of 1917. Frunze was born in Bishkek, then a small Imperial Russian garrison town in…
Read more »Jalalabat region
SARY CHELEK NATURE RESERVE Sary Chelek nature reserve is located in the west of the country in the valley of Chatkalskiy range in the Hodja-Ata river basin where apple woods…
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Djalal-Abad is famous for its spas. There is a legend that the water from the Hozret-Ayub-Paigambar spa cured lepers. According to the legend there was a grave, a mosque and…
Read more »Internet and email access
The Internet is a wonderful resource for travellers who want to find out more about distant lands, which they are going to visit – like Kyrgyzstan. There are many sites,…
Read more »Postal services
The postal service can be fairly haphazard … you will almost certainly arrive home well before your postcards do – unless you are literally following in the footsteps of Marco…
Read more »Telephones
Country Code + 996 City codes: Bishkek 312 Cholpon Ata 3943Djalal Abad 3722Karakol 3922 Naryn 3522Osh 3222Talas 3422Other… Many places can be dialed direct – but you will have to obtain the code – for…
Read more »Osh region
SULEYMAN-TOO Suleyman – Too is a hill in the heart of the city, rising 175m from the floor of the valley of the Ak Buura River in which Osh is…
Read more »Tokmok
Tokmok is a city of about 75,000 (2005) in northern Kyrgyzstan, east of the country’s capital of Bishkek. Its geographical location is 42°50N, 75°17’E; its altitude is 816 m above…
Read more »Cholpon-Ata
Cholpon-Ata is the largest town on the Northern shore of the Issyk-Kul lake, about half way along, some 250 kilometers from Bishkek. Summer always saw large numbers of tourists in…
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