Karakol is Kyrgyzstan's 4th largest city after Bishkek, Osh and Jalal-Abad. It is a centre for outside sports including trekking and skiing. The town itself is not so remarkable, typical stoic Soviet architecture and crumbling concrete statues of the past litter parks. I put my tent on the washing line at the hostel to dry out and go out to explore. There is a central square that has similar scenes that I have witnessed through out central Asia. Families congregate, music plays. Kids whizz around on rented bicycles and electric powered cars whilst a statue of Lenin looks on. At the War Memorial newly weds have their photos taken, as I witnessed elsewhere in the former Soviet Union. I finish the day stuffing a Shashlik down my neck.
WWII Cemetery.
WWII Cemetery.
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