Tien-Shan Mountains - 2013
From Bishkek we drove south through the Tien-Shan Mountains towards Osh.
Too-AShuu Pass, 3586m above sea-level.
The pass is a part of the Kyrgyz Alatau range of the Tien Shan mountains.
Heather, our former teaching colleague (and now a grandmother), rode along these roads in 2006.
She rode the other way - from Osh to Bishkek as part of her bicycle trip from Beijing to Istanbul.
(She later completed her trip from Istanbul to Paris).
This was the only part of her trip that coincided with ours.
At our rustic hotel in the Chychkan Nature Reserve.
A primitive hydro-electric plant powered the hotel.
No safety precautions here.
From Bishkek we drove south through the Tien-Shan Mountains towards Osh.
Too-AShuu Pass, 3586m above sea-level.
The pass is a part of the Kyrgyz Alatau range of the Tien Shan mountains.
Heather, our former teaching colleague (and now a grandmother), rode along these roads in 2006.
She rode the other way - from Osh to Bishkek as part of her bicycle trip from Beijing to Istanbul.
(She later completed her trip from Istanbul to Paris).
This was the only part of her trip that coincided with ours.
At our rustic hotel in the Chychkan Nature Reserve.
A primitive hydro-electric plant powered the hotel.
No safety precautions here.
