Lake News 2
- krolesh
- Jul 7, 2024
- 2 min read
Preparing brekky the next morn.
Never seen a balcony recess quite like this before
Many of the vehicles out here are ancient
The town of Bokonbaevo. We stopped for snacks, phone calls, lunch things, and found a bike shop to get some chain oil. It was a really interesting place.
We grabbed more potato or cheese samsa, or samsy, as they're better known in Kyrgyzstan. They're the best. And we got bread, of course.
The bakery had a great range of stuff, and was just an old hole in the wall, with a friendly lady serving us.
Kyrgyz people love their breads and bakery products, as they do all over Central Asia. The basic bread, called nan in Kazakhstan (in India it's called naan), and often known as lepeshki here, is available everywhere, and is cooked in a tandoor oven, which is basically a vertical clay cylinder-shaped or slightly conical-shaped oven with a fire at the bottom, and the nan dough is placed to cook on the inside round walls, defying gravity.
The bread's amazing when it's fresh and hot. To die for.
A huge range of cute Kyrgyz breads, for sale at the Osh Bazaar, in Bishkek, a few days later.
Old mud brick village ruin
There's been rain
It was pretty cold at times in the late afternoon, with a head wind. The road was pretty grinding, all those rocks and gravel made the going fairly slow and a little tough at times.
The sky had completely opened out in the north.
We passed through clouds of white fluffy seeds, whipped around by the wind. It was beautiful, like snow, despite the hard, end-of-day riding.
Yet another memorial to war
We made it to a wide flat camping area on private land, a bunch of people came to check out the sunset, then moved on.
We found a spot, but it was super windy. We had no option but to set up camp, amidst these incredible clouds of insects. It was pretty weird for awhile.
But when the sun set they pretty much left, and the wind died down.
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