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December 3, 2023 – Mexico City
Visited the National Museum of Anthropology today. Spent four and a half hours and saw only half of it. It covered all of the native civilizations in Mexico: Aztec, Maya, Olmec, Toltec and more I’d never heard of. Admission was $90 pesos which is about $5.70 US. Took so many photos that my phone’s battery…
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December 2, 2023 – Huntsville to Mexico City
Flew to Mexico City today arriving around 7 PM. Great to be here again. Staying in an Airbnb in the Roma area. Nice little apartment with a view and in a neighborhood on the upscale side in Central Mexico City. Here for four nights, spending days seeing a few things. Highest on the list is…
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September 21, 2023 – Samarkand to Yurt Camp near Ayudar Lake, Uzbekistan
On a tour of Central Asia which started September 5. So, this blog is behind. I’ll backfill to get you caught up but it will take awhile. Bumped along the roads from Samarkand to Ayudar Lake in Northern Uzbekistan. Stopped at a few places but main stop was a big man-made lake in the Kyzylkum…
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September 11, 2023 – Saty, 12K from Lower Kolsay Lake, Kazakhstan
Drove from Karakol, Kyrgyzstan to Saty Village in Kazakhstan. The landscapes in Kazakhstan are vast, like the USA’s West. Before we settled down in a guesthouse, went into Kolsay Lakes National Park. Hiked down to a small lake created by an earthquake around 1870. Trees were partially submerged and the trunks are still visible. The…
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September 10, 2023 – Karakol, Issyk-Kul Region, Kyrgyzstan
Walked seven miles on a dirt road into the mountains today. Very scenic. After the walk we went to a hot spring and soothed some aches. The hottest water flowed into a small pool which flowed into a cooler pool and then another and then another. Each pool is cooler. We weren’t allowed in the…
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September 9, 2023 – Karakol, Issyk-Kul Region, Kyrgyzstan
Photos of the day include a visit to a Soviet sanatorium, a museum to the Russian explorer Pristan Przhevalsky, a stop at Issyk Kul, service in a Russian Orthodox Church, a visit to a Chinese mosque and a yurt building demo. Just an average day. Dinner tonight was at a Uyghur family’s house. Good food…
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September 8, 2023 – Tamga, Ysyk-Kol, Kyrgyzstan
Moved downhill to a guesthouse near the southern shore of a great big lake, Issyk Kul. The lake is 50 miles wide and a hundred miles long and has a max depth of 2192 ft. It’s the seventh deepest lake in the world. It’s slightly salty and doesn’t freeze in the winter despite the cold…
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September 7, 2023 – Song-Kul Lake, Kyrgyzstan
Out of touch yesterday because we drove high into the mountains to a beautiful mountain lake, Song-Kul. Stayed in a yurt. Lots of cows, horses, sheep, and some yaks in this grassland at about 9,900 ft.
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September 6, 2023 – Kyrgyzstan
Tour group drove out of Bishkek and into the mountains. Stay is in tiny village at about 4,700 ft and we’re going higher tomorrow.
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September 5, 2023 — Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
Arrived in Bishkek early this morning, checked in the hotel, took a long nap then hit the sidewalks. The stroll took me to the Osh Bazaar where almost everything is sold, even pig heads. All the people have Asian features. Makes sense since China is the neighbor to the east and Mongols controlled this area…
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