“Is your country giving you money to travel?” this is one of the most frequently asked questions directed to me in Kyrgyzstan, apart from the usual “where are you from?”, “how old are you?”, and “are you married?”.
Posts Tagged ‘Kyrgyzstan’
State-Sponsored Travels?
Posted in The Silk Road, tagged Kyrgyzstan, Silk Road on September 15, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Politically Charged Summer
Posted in The Silk Road, tagged Kyrgyzstan, Silk Road on September 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Instead of catching an act of Swan Lake or the like at the National Ballet Theater in Bishkek as I initially hoped, I have ended up gate-crashing a political rally and a “vote-fishing” feast.
All Things “National” in Kyrgyzstan
Posted in The Silk Road, tagged Kyrgyzstan, Silk Road on September 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Kyrgyz people like to refer to anything of local origin as “National”, for example, they call the nomadic dwelling yurt as the National House. They also have National Food, National Drink, National Game, National Costume, National Literature, and of course, National Language.
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