Day 193 (Kyrgyzstan): Sary Tash - Osh (by car)

Today I was heading to Osh from Sary Tash. About a six hour ride by car, there are 20 people milling about the confluence of two roads and all starting for any car that comes by. You have to muscle your way in and I don’t really stand a chance. It just so happens that the man from the guesthouse seems to be a big man here and at a word from him I was in the back of a car. Back meaning back … I was in the very back of a 4×4 in pretty cramped conditions. There was also meat packets (boiled meat) and bread (I guess there is none in Osh?), so I had a cozy few hours there.

The drive was amazing - through gorgeous countryside. But on extremely bad roads. It would have been great to bike this stuff, though pretty harsh. Yet I didn’t have time to make it to Bishkek by bike and would have had to return to Sary Tash, so leaving the bike there seemed to be the right thing to do.

I found a place for the next few days and will be heading to Bishkek from Osh. No pictures today. But there are tons on the flickr site.