The Osh Nuru hotel was a great hotel in the center of Osh, Kyrgyzstan. We arrived here after a long travel day from Tashkent, Uzbekistan. The city of Osh’s industrial base largely collapsed after the break-up of the Soviet Union and has recently only started to revive. It was the perfect location to stay…
Our 18-day trip through ‘the Stans’ was coming to an end. Kyrgyzstan was our fourth country and Bishkek was our 8th city. We only had two days to spend here. After these two days was a long travel day back to Almaty, Kazakhstan for one night. Then an early morning flight back to Barcelona, Spain…
There are cities which call to us, the cities which speak the language of history. However, when it comes to Bishkek Kyrgyzstan, the road takes us back to recent times, the Soviet rule. If you’re looking for an intact symbol of Soviet rule, the place that still lives and breathes in the remains of…