DavidJennyTravel

We wasted a morning following various people’s leads about a computer shop where I could get the charger repaired. Karakol is probably heaving with tourists in summer, and there is … Read more

After visiting numerous Beeline offices in Georgia on the way out where a succession of young ladies struggled to make the mifi work, we finally discovered from yet another young … Read more

Lake Issyk-Kul is a huge lake in eastern Kyrgyzstan and its western end is about 105 miles east of Bishkek. I had to give a £5 bribe at the ugly … Read more

Arriving in Bishkek we made for the Albatross Hotel, only to be told that our good friend Gapur Karimov had moved to another hotel, the Premier. After spending three hours … Read more

Day 150, 24th October., Sosnovka Getting the Russian visas before the section of the Chinese trip from Mohan to Irkeshtam was finalised, I had assumed we would be in China … Read more

Day 149, 23rd October, Tashkomyr After a lazy morning and a late breakfast, we proceeded at a leisurely pace to Osh where a rather sullen-faced man at a tyre repair … Read more

Note: The wifi in western Tibet was barely existent, probably because there weren’t ant people to use it. We are now in Bishkek and, although th wifi is good, the … Read more