Travel Story: lawrence bransbury - kyrgyzsta
Let's be blunt here: Kyrgyzstan is not a normal
country.
If I hadn't suggested we stop to gnaw on a
gristly sheep's leg for lunch we would have got
over the Taldyk Pass before the landslide blocked
the road.
But I did.
So we ate our dubious lumps of meat, then
pressed on up the pass heading for the beginning
of the Pamir Highway and the Afghan border only
to find that, just minutes before we got there, half
the mountain had collapsed onto the road,
blocking our path.
Can't complain too much, I suppose - we could
have been under it.
What to do? Our way
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