Registan.net

Have you been keeping up with Joshua Kucera’s travels from Istanbul to Beijing? You should be—not only is he writing some good, insightful dispatches for Eurasianet.org while he’s at it, his blog has some wonderful stories of what a regular person traveling around the region can see. In the last week he’s been wandering around Issyk-Kul and Karakol, way up in the northern mountains of Kyrgyzstan.

Yeah, so that’s not pretty at all. At all. He recounts the surreality of a Kyrgyz nomad singing Beyoncé, Turanbek the devil child, a semi-abandoned bus station in Osh, and finally the adventure of buying certified “No AIDS” documentation from the border guards.

It’s all fantastic writing, with beautiful photos, so you should go catch up on his latest adventures. Did I mention I’m supremely jealous I’m stuck in an office?

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