Lake Issyk Kul is a popular tourist resort catering principally for Kyrgyz and Kazakh holiday makers. It even has a small airport at Tamchy that has direct flights from Bishkek and Almaty. However I am there during September and the weather is already on the turn and the holiday season has finished. I ride around some of the lakeside resort towns full of closed bars, guesthouses, ice cream stalls and restaurants and hum "Every day is like Sunday" by Morrissey to myself. This place looks very lively during peak season and just 4 weeks earlier I would have witnessed a very different scene.
I leave the lake side quiet and press on down the highway. Unfortunately the weather turns, and becomes wet, very wet. I am soon drenched and by now far from available accommodation. I find a suitable spot off the road hidden by foliage and put my tent up. Dry and warm I feel better and sleep.
Friendly faces!
The lake side town, that has already closed down.
I leave the lake side quiet and press on down the highway. Unfortunately the weather turns, and becomes wet, very wet. I am soon drenched and by now far from available accommodation. I find a suitable spot off the road hidden by foliage and put my tent up. Dry and warm I feel better and sleep.
Friendly faces!
The lake side town, that has already closed down.
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