Kyrgyzstan
Suddenly at the bottom of the backpacker ladder
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Johan Kruseman
Updated on 17 August 2024
Updated on 17 August 2024
In the Netherlands, I could get away with countries like Kyrgyzstan and Mongolia, but here I’m at the bottom of the ladder as a ‘regular backpacker’: an Englishman with a Vietnamese wife who cycled from Hanoi to Paris; a Dutch family who had been on the road for 5 years in a Land Rover; two Poles on a tandem bike, and a German guy who bought a horse and traveled the country on it for three months. Luckily, there were two others with whom I could share the bottom rung: just having a standard backpacking vacation in Central Asia for a few months.
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Traveled route: Bishkek, Ala Archa National Park, Kockkor, Song-Kul lake, Beltam Yurt Camp, Fairytale Canyon Skazka, Karakol, Altyn-Arashan, Cholpon-Ata, Jalal-Abad, Kazarman
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Did this story inspire you to go to Kyrgyzstan? Read more on what Kyrgyzstan has to offer, what the best months are for visiting and check the handy links for backpacking there.
