Destinations

There is no ski base at Arslanbob, whatever you have read. What exists is horses carrying you to 2,500 m and a…

Everyone walks 15 km to Altyn-Arashan. The same geothermal system surfaces lower down at a Soviet sanatorium village a 25-som marshrutka ride…

Around 90,000 hives, moved up the mountain through the summer to follow the bloom. Why Kyrgyz honey is genuinely good and where…

Relict juniper near Osh, automated card-payment gates installed in July 2026, and a park where 97.5 percent of visitors are domestic. What…

A research station here has taken continuous readings since 1948, and its reference glacier has lost 29 metres of water equivalent. The…

A five-peaked mountain in the middle of Osh, climbed by pilgrims for 1,500 years and listed by UNESCO in 2009. What is…

Five miners died in two months, 30-odd private firms dig coal 600 metres under the houses, and a narrow-gauge railway runs into…

Coal since 1898, the first Soviet in Kyrgyzstan in March 1917, and a mudflow in 1977 that built a district called BAM.…

A cement works making 1.16 million tonnes a year that opened a new line in 2025, and a Russian air base since…

A uranium combine that no longer processes ore and a refinery idle since 2019, with tailings sitting above the town. The last…

The oblast was created in 1999, the town was shelled in 2022, and the border was finally settled by treaty in March…

12,183 hectares of beans, a Nirvana variety sold to 30 countries, and a subsidised flight at 2,100 som. The one Kyrgyz provincial…