80 Kilometers From the Chinese Border and Counting

28 June 2009

Tash Rabat, Kyrgyzstan 

Spending the last night in Kyrgyzstan, bush camp. Last night was in a homestay in Kochkor...where we have been about 3 times. Sort of the hub of the Kyrgyzstani sights, so we've been in and out of there like...I don't know, insert inappropriate metaphor here, can't be bothered. Not much on in Kochkor. There's an internet cafe, with one computer. Dial up. Argh. They do sell liquor with a girl in a burkha on the label. 

The homestay was quite nice, had a resident very small girl called Karina who was lovely and spoiled rotten and modeled David's sunglasses for us. Also another Russian sauna, just like the one in the Uzbek truck stop. Which. Is. Fabulous. Good lord, people, look into getting a Russian sauna in your house. It's amazing.  

Tomorrow should be interesting...Chinese border looks to be bureaucracy run rampant. Although we are far from Beijing, all of China runs on Beijing time, so there's a two-hour time difference, making the Kyrgyz and Chinese borders vastly different in terms of times of opening and etc. Have heard of others having nightmares here, fingers crossed we will charm them.