Howdy all! Yes, well, we are back and rolling with 2023. Today I am starting with a review of the 2022 editions of ‘Destination of the Month’, and on Tuesday I will be uplifting the veil on my travel plans for 2023 – last Friday I presented a trailer for 2023 which tells you basically …
Howdy all and it’s another Sunday for you! Today it’s the first ‘Destination of the Month’ for you, and I am sticking to what I know, and that’s places I have been, and today it’s Central Asia again for you and the country in question is Kyrgyzstan. Where abouts is our destination? Well, it’s a …
Continue reading Destination of the Month – Karakol and Lake Issyk-Kul
Central Asia is a place that leads people to imagine endless steppe, deserts, horses, excessively grotesque buildings in the capital cities, but one thing people probably don't imagine is Europe-like forests on mountains. But that's exactly what you find in eastern Kyrgyzstan!
Time I think for another 'Faces of'. I was initially going to do a 'Faces of Central Asia', combining Kyrgyzstan with Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, but when reviewing my photos from the region, I realised that I had more than enough photos of people from Kyrgyzstan alone. At Altyn Arashan, in the mountains in the region …
Here's one of my favourite travel pics. In the background is Jeti-Oguz, or the 'Broken Heart', a large reddish rock that split in two and looks like a, well, broken heart. I was taking photos of it and this local family asked to be in the photo. Slightly odd, yes, but with such a hat, …
When travelling, you experience many things. Highs and Lows, adventure, challenges, places and situations that you planned, hoped to make, and then sometimes, there's that experience where you wonder just exactly how you managed to get there. And you consider maybe it's just a weird sort of dream. I've been working on and am …
Yes, I am going to cheat here and instead of specifying a country, I am going to lump ‘Central Asia’ together in my top ten. Technically I already cheated when I included the UK, right? But for me, Central Asia was the ultimate in ‘different’. I visited Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan over six weeks back …
Continue reading Top Ten Country Countdown, Number 5- Central Asia
A Scottish island girl exploring the world on a budget
exposing the inner-world of my brain
My second blog page
Put pictures on your travel dreams
The beautiful picture of angels makes you happy.
inspiring journeys and friendly advice
A Scottish island girl exploring the world on a budget
exposing the inner-world of my brain
My second blog page
Put pictures on your travel dreams
The beautiful picture of angels makes you happy.
inspiring journeys and friendly advice
Andy's World Journeys 