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Highlights of my KaraKol visit

Favorite thing:
eating caviar from a bucket

eating a typical 'Dungan' meal at at a Dungan
family. Chinese muslims who fled from China and settled
there.

visiting small ethnic german villages.

Meeting a Russian hunter and his family,
he used to be dropped by helicopter in the
mountains. He would hunt mountain goat and
other animals. On the 3rd day he would light a fire at
a set time and the chopper would pick him up.

Meeting a proffesional Krygyz eagle trainer. He would
climb into the mountains and trap an eagle, then bring
it back and train it to hunt.

Highlights of my KaraKol visit

Favorite thing:

travelling by army jeep up into the mountains
to see a herd of 400 yak, being invited to
a sheeps head dinner by the herdsmen.

visiting the market at 5am seeing the livestock.

Eating ploff with a Krygyz for breakfast.

Horseback ride up into the mountains
and forest reserve.

Renting a helicopter and flying over the glaciers
to a smal lsettlement with a thermal spring bath house.