Kyrgyzstan Bishkek- Silk Road Travels 1
New countries to visit, new adventures to be had, new people to meet and new cultures to experience. I just finished following the silk road through Central Asia. Although the silk road did begin in Xian, China, most of the route is running directly through Central Asia to India or Italy. I spent a few days in Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan, and then I boarded a private train for the rest of the adventure. Because of the many amazing sites that are part of the silk road, there will be many posts for this adventure. Until recently before this journey was planned I honestly didn’t know much about Kyrgyzstan (or any of the other countries on my trip). I didn’t know where it was, and I especially didn’t know how to spell it or pronounce it. Glad to say that I finally know all three. We flew from Salt Lake City, Utah (my hometown) to Amsterdam. The reason I mention this flight is as we were flying to Amsterdam our plane flew right through the Aurora Borealis. I don’t have any pictures as they wouldn’t take out of my plane window, but it was phenomenal. Green lights streaked across the sky surrounding our plane. We watched the changing sky for about 30 minutes until it was out of sight. A spectacular beginning to this adventure. Our next flight took us to Almaty, Kazakhstan where we landed at 2 am. We went straight to the hotel and got in a few hours of sleep. The next morning we drove to Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan (which is the capital). Almaty is at the bottom of Kazakhstan near Kyrgyzstan, so it was around a 4-hour drive, and some extra time going through the border checkpoint. The drive was pleasant (although some places the roads were…
January 19, 2016