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Some first impressions and defending a thesis in a gaming cafe

Veröffentlicht: 04.05.2022

Soo we figured out some essentials: We know how to find public transport, there is a russian app called 2gis which displays how to get around. And the alternative to uber here is called yandex taxi. That said we had no issues getting around yesterday and went to the biggest basar of the town, called Osh Basar.

Spices at Osh Basar

It's almost like you would imagine it, full with spices, fruits, meat (not cooled), clothing, electronics, toys and plenty more.

And they even offered self service to Hanna 🤣

Hanna getting some dried bananas for our porridge
You'll find more fotos in the foto section of this blog entry.
Afterwards we had some coffee at an admittedly european place, the coffee was more expensive then a taxi ride through half of the capital (everything is really cheap here) but I'm sure we'll get to have traditional coffee soon!

As you can see, I really needed a haircut and thats what I did afterwards. 

As many of you know, I had to defend my master thesis online. I did that in the evening at a gaming place thats open 24/7. The other people there played some online games and yelled the worst insults in russian in their headsets 😂

The gaming cafe where I defended my Thesis

I've been super nervous but in the end it all worked out just fine.

There is some serious rain coming and Hanna and me are trying to flee from it. I'm typing this from a car wish brings us to Osh (yes the same name as the basar but it's a city in the west of the country). We wont be able to escape the rain completely but at least its not going to rain 2 weeks straight. Our plan is then to do some hikes there, view the historical part of the city (it's supposed to be really beautiful) and eventually continue to Usbekistan. We will go to the high mountains of Kyrgyzstan on the second half of the trip, since summer is really hot here and the mountains are cold. We'll rather spend some summer time in the mountains when all tracks are opened. And I'll have some practice using my feet again instead of a bicycle.

There are two things about this country (as far as I can tell from the capital Bishkek at least) that really suprised me:

It's quiet and really clean.

It's quiet in that sense, that there is no music at the basars. There are no people yelling, if they argue about prices (which you should do), they dont do it without loud voices. People barely talk in Matrushkas (the local busses). There is no music in the matrushkas. EVEN AT THE BARBER SHOP THE LOCALS DIDNT DO SMALLTALK WITH THE HAIRDRESSER.

And it's clean, because there is no trash lying around like you would suspect in any major city (Berlin, Hamburg, Buenos Aires, whatever). The capital is surprisingly clean and that even tho there aren't many trashcans.

Oh and I got unlimited high speed internet directly at the airport (for 8€/month + unlimited sms+calls), which is super convenient since I dont have to worry about mobile data and can just upload all fotos for the blog while beeing on some sort of public transport, just like now.

I slept like a baby tonight, I think I left jetlag behind but it was just 6 hours, we left early today. The trip to Osh is 10-14h by car. I'll try to take a nap here, as Hanna is already doing 💤💤

Bye, hasta muy pronto, doswidanja :)

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Hanna
Marshrutka, please its marshrutka 😋

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