Day 9 - We had a long day of driving ahead of us approximately 10 hours. To break up the day we stopped at the magnificent alpine lake of Issy-Kul. this lake was described as one of the holiday places where the locals swim (there version of a beach not mine).
After some lunch we are back on the road to continue our way to Tash Rabat where our Yurt camp will be waiting. Before we get there we have one more stop and that is at an family run Yurt Camp in Naryn. This is where we offered some fermented mare's milk (Yep! I passed not for me). Others tried it and well lets just say we had to stop again and again!!! before arriving to Tash Rabat our Yurt Camp.
After some lunch we are back on the road to continue our way to Tash Rabat where our Yurt camp will be waiting. Before we get there we have one more stop and that is at an family run Yurt Camp in Naryn. This is where we offered some fermented mare's milk (Yep! I passed not for me). Others tried it and well lets just say we had to stop again and again!!! before arriving to Tash Rabat our Yurt Camp.
Phew!!! make it to the camp and its now approximately 6pm and time for dinner and orientation of toilets etc... AWESOME!!! there is a sauna. Count me in !!!. Dinner was a true Kyrgyzstan meal with a tomato/vege soup (Yum!!) and a rice dish called plov (OK!! so it had some meat through it, I just put those bits aside).
Sun has nearly gone to bed and before I do the same I am off to the Sauna. Lisa and I are in our swimmers enjoying the Sauna when we get a knock on the door. Confusion enters out mind as it sounds like Borat is outside offering us a real Russian Sauna experience, we quickly replied ummm.... No! Thank you!
So time to get out of the Sauna and off to bed in our Yurt for a good night sleep (well thats what I thought). Our enture group of 6 ok 7 including the Tour Leader were sharing this Yurt (Yep!! nice and cosy). As is started to drift of to sleep 2 members of our group started to have a snoring competition. So I did not get a good nights sleep this night but hey!!! with the number of blakets I had I was warm!!! (There is always a positive).
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So time to get out of the Sauna and off to bed in our Yurt for a good night sleep (well thats what I thought). Our enture group of 6 ok 7 including the Tour Leader were sharing this Yurt (Yep!! nice and cosy). As is started to drift of to sleep 2 members of our group started to have a snoring competition. So I did not get a good nights sleep this night but hey!!! with the number of blakets I had I was warm!!! (There is always a positive).
Next country China
