Yes Kyrgyzstan is stunning but you do have to be careful. When we camped at Song Kol we had our food taken from our panniers overnight. The next day whilst stopping at the top of the pass to check out the view there were several young boys on horses and other men with a car drinking Kumis which they offered to us. Whilst engaging with the Kumis drinkers the boys on the horses stole my wife's gloves off the seat of her bike. No amount of reasoning with them was to any avail and we left without her gloves. Fortunately we carried extra sets which she put on after we had descended a few kilometres. Later that afternoon whilst stopped in a small village looking for fuel, we were spontaneously invited into a house to join in the celebrations of a new born babe reaching 1 month of age. It was a very warm, friendly welcoming experience. Such are the vagaries of travel, and human behaviour.
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