On The Road

Having spent several days in Kyrgyztan looking for horses to rent without success, we decided to ride on and try our luck elsewhere. After all, there should also be horses in Kazakhstan, right? The Charyn Canyon was one of the points of interest that we had marked as "we should go there" during our planning. For the route to the Kyrgyz-Kazhak border we followed the route calculated by maps.me which worked pretty well. Only in a small village we had to follow the route a local…

Starting from the guesthouse in Karakol, we road to the entry of the valley of which we had read yesterday. There, we wanted to go and rent a horse for a day before continuing towards Kazakhstan. After leaving the big main road, we at first covered the first kilometers on a dirt track that was in good condition. Beyond that however, the road condition became a lot worse and there were several sections with big boulders and steep downhill parts where Chris rode both bikes one…

With the day off in Bishkek our energy was restored and we got back on the road. The plan was to ride to the Song-Kul lake located in the mountains south of Kyrgyztan at around 3000m elevation. The country is truly mountainous: From Murghab we had descended to below 1000m at Osh, during our ride from Osh to Bishkek we went up above 3000m and back down again and now the plan was to got back up again once more. The only problem with that plan…