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Uphill traffic has right of way, there is no winter tyre law, and one horn rule lost force in 2021. Kyrgyzstan mountain…

The Foreign Office does not say avoid driving at night, and no Kyrgyz body publishes night crash data. What the official advice…

601 km, scheduled at 12h40, and the road crosses Kazakhstan twice. The official bus times, the Uzbek registration rule, and the crossing…

The Karkyra crossing runs 09:00-20:00, not round the clock, per the Kyrgyz border service in September 2026. The direct bus, the fares,…

A $4.7 billion line that breaks gauge in the middle of Kyrgyzstan. The route, the financing split, what is actually built, and…

Kyrgyzstan imported 112,000 vehicles in ten months, almost all used. Why the fleet looks like that, the right-hand drive ban, and what…

A 1,860 MW dam on the Naryn, a three-country deal, $4.2 billion, and the country's top seismologist saying the ground survey was…

The full list of non-working days, how the two lunar holidays are fixed, and the 2025 rule change that means a holiday…

The EU lifted its twenty-year ban on Kyrgyz airlines in June 2026. A month later TezJet lost its licence after a runway…

Bishkek buses stopped taking cash on 1 July 2026. What the validator accepts, why a bank card works but loses you the…

You bought a two-metre felt carpet. The post is cheap and slow, couriers are fast and dear, and carrying it is usually…

Kyrgyzstan earned $1.1 billion from tourism in 2025 and over 95% of visitors come from the region. Two separate industries share the…