A Tour of Stanada

So, we're staying in Bishkek at the moment - it's a nice quiet city. Pretty calm but VERY dark after 9:30 or so. Not that anything has happened, but it's a little unnerving to walk home late at night (like 10:00).
Bishkek is a quiet city so there's not a whole heck of a lot to do, but if you're ever here, it's DEFINITELY recommened that you check out the State Historical Museaum. I know, boring for most but I really enjoyed myself. I've never seen so many bronze...

Sorry for the delay, we've been having some difficulties. Apparently, Blogspot has been blocked in Kazakhstan (or something like that, I was only able to access it once through some friends' computers.... so now that we are in Kyrgyzstan (SURPRISE!!...

Well, we're on our way back to Almaty today to get our Kyrgyz visas and then head off to Karaganda. Should be good.
However, we had an interesting day today. We went to the beach for a while - yes, there is a nice beach just outside of Shymkent, it's bordered by a dam and there isn't much shade, but it's really nice. We went swimming for a bit but then a bunch of...

A good day today. Not the craziest day ever, but a few interesting stories did come out of it. After leaving all our friends behind in Almaty we decided to go to Shymkent and then off to Turkistan (city, not country - that one's called Turkmenistan)...