Anyone have experience travelling / living in Xinjiang? I lived

>>1179092
I can't help you OP but I would love to hear about your stay in Kyrgyzstan. I've never really heard much of anything about it.

>>1179092
Maybe check the China General.

Also, this >>1179483

>>1179483
Me three. How is it in winter time? Is it too cold to travel there.

>>1179092
Check out a guy called Far West China. He has a website and hand around reddit /r/China

>>1179483
Me four. I would like to hear about Kyrgyzstan as well

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Come on OP tell us about Kyrgyzstan

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>playing buzkashi in the countryside
>20c public transport to anywhere in town
>sleeping under a thousand star sky at Lake Issyk-kul
>singing with random ruskies on the marshrutka
>student biting me as she pretended to be an aкyлa
>dazing at the waves of grass blowing in the wind over the massive treeless hills,
>eating kurut
>getting lost in dordoi bazaar the largest in central Asia
>celebrating victory day
everyone dressed up as the soviet red army

friend burning himself with boiling water at the Banya (though jug was cool water)
>no hospital for miles
>treated by a mobile qt sovietesque nurse >injected him with unknown serum as he was going into shock
>transported back to Bishkek by MAZ

met some guys while fishing in the countryside >invited us back to dacha
>3 (1qt) muslim girls inside preparing huge plate of plov, borsok, salad
>qt is staring the whole time
>randomly jumps in excitement asking to climb the hills
>yes but pleasedontcutmyheadoff


i miss that soviet shithole so much

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not my photo but friends riding towards lake issykul

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Manas Park, abandoned from soviet era

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Lake Ala-Kul outside of Karakol

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Wild horse near Jalalabad

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best hotel experience, near the lake

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on route to Osh

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Forget the lakes name but my favorite picture

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game of buzkashi during a hike
>drank the night before
>took the easiest hike available in trekking union
>all women
>villagers ask us to watch their 'national sport'
>being the only guy they wave me over
>ask if i want to hold headless meatbag of a goat
>ok
>ask if i want to ride horse
>ok
>slaps horse's ass
>Davai! I attempt to play (trot around actual game)

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Thanks anon, great pictures and great stories.

Do you ever plan to go back there ?