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Kyrgyz flag
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Chon-Kemin Valley looking north toward Ile Alatau range
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Apple orchard Chon-Kemin valley
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Apple blossoms
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Potato harvest Chon-Kemin valley
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Kalmak-Ashu village
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Kalmak-Ashu mosque
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Soviet era kolkhoz (collective farm)
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Soviet era bus
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Ashuu Guest House
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1950s wall hanging in our room
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Horse cart
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Chon-Kemin Valley
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Our Kyrgyz guide Elmira explaining nomad games
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Erenish (wrestling on horseback)
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Artkan-tartysh (rope pull)
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Ulak-tartysh (carcass pull)
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Paul with the prize - a headless goat
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Canyon Chon Kemin valley
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Smoked chebak (an endemic dace) from Lake Issyk-Kul
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Paul beating dirt from Baktygul eje and our Kyrgyz guide Ilya
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Baktygul eje (older sister Happy Flower) demonstrates felt carpet making
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With our felt made by Balkygul eje
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Kyrgys felt hat
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8th c BCE to 1st c CD Saka-Usun petroglyphs at Cholpon-Ata
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View from our hotel on Lake Issyk-Kul
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Museum dedicated to Russian explorer Nikolai Prezhevalsky Museum who died in Karakol in 1888
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Tile in museum depicting Prezhevalsky horse
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Dungan Mosque, Karakol
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Chinese-style Dungan Mosque in Karakol
