Silk Road 17: Lenin Peak & Turpal kul (lake), Kyrgyzstan, Sept 2019 After a great few days exploring Osh , it was time to move on towards Tajikistan. So early the next morning, Erali arrived with his brothers Ahmadali and Sherali, who were going to be our driver and guide for the next 7 days…
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Silk Road 16: More Osh, Kyrgyzstan; Sept 2019 After the wonderful experiences the previous day in Osh, the next day, we got up early to go to Sulaiman-Too, the sacred mountain in Osh city, for a hike, before it got too hot mid-day. This mountain was sacred because its five peaks and slopes contained numerous…
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Silk Road 15: Osh, Kyrgyzstan; Sept 2019 We took the Air Manas flight from Bishkek to Osh; on a packed 737 (not the Max fortunately). The flight went over flat farmed lands, followed by the Ala Too mountains, and then back over flat farmlands. Some images from the flight A little about Osh. Osh is the…
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Silk Road 14: Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan; 15th Sept 2019 Since we had a wonderful trip in mid 2016 covering part of the Great Silk Road in Xinjiang, China and Gilgit-Baltistan, Northern Pakistan , we decided to continue checking out more Silk Road routes, this time in Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan; the “stans” of the former Soviet…
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In July 2019, we decide to take a week and check out the Algarve region of southern Portugal. This is a well-known tourist destination, that we had gone to about 30 yrs ago, and had little recollection of it, except for 2 things: We had driven from Lisbon to Algarve, and our destination was Faro….
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