Osh Region

Best travel reports from Osh Region

Wander Adventures in Kyrgyzstan

Freedom! Kyrgyzstan showed its best side to us from the beginning: We had just left the Chinese border building when a brand new car stopped next to us and the Kyrgyz driver...

An overload of hospitality and the first hike

As you guys probably remember from the last entry, Hanna and I tried to flee from the rain in Bishkek and went to Osh. The way was 750km but we needed about 13 hours to get...

Alay - Pamir mountains

We made it late at night to Sary-Mogul, slept there at a homestay of a local family and went in the next morning with a ride provided by the CBT (community based tourism) people...

Arslanbob and hitchhiking to Alay mountains

Hanna and I went for another hike in Arslanbob, and this one proved to be really challenging! We gained 1300m of altitude, and sometimes the inclination was 45°. We met plenty...

42. Stage 'Sarytash, Kyrgyzstan'

As planned, we crossed the border into Kyrgyzstan today. The road to the border was very good. However, that changed immediately before the first checkpoint on the Tajik side....

We climbed the mountain mazar! Little text, many pics

I'm not going to bomb you guys with so much text as the last time but wanted to share the photos of today since the mountain was SO beautiful. For the way back we hitchhiked...