Kyrgyzstan
Unexpected clubbing in a mountain village
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Johan Kruseman
Updated on 26 August 2024
Updated on 26 August 2024
And there I was in Arslanbob, a village where the only two tourist attractions, the waterfall and the big waterfall, were clearly marked with signs. But what made the village truly unique, apart from the breathtaking view, was stumbling upon a disco in the middle of the mountains at one o’clock in the afternoon. “I’m sexy and I know it” echoed loudly through the mountains, and inside, people were dancing enthusiastically. Perhaps even more amusing was that the disco closed an hour later, and we all had to move to the second disco a hundred meters away, which required a 40-cent entrance fee and this movement between the two disco’s repeated itself every two hours.
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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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