Get up before 6, quick breakfast and off to tuk. Very late departure. Walk up nice canyon but no support from guides where to go or when to return. Met lots of un people. One of them a melbournian who lived in switzerland for four years. And very nice indian couple. Walk back after lunch.

Nice breakie and long chat with guest house manager. More organising (internet) and check for day trips at novi nomad. Dinner at faiza's. Hot and sunny day. Met guest house manager on way back. Took me along with her friend to uighur restaurant where we had too much to drink, observed some russian behaviour (fight) and got home late.

Few hrs internet after breakie. Organising rest of trip. Went to kazakh embassy to pick up passport. Bought ticket for odessa next week.

Rather ordinary breakie. Met owners wife just when i left. Talks heaps but nice. Called guesthouse in bishkek to announce my arrival. Very beautiful trip to biskek. At least the first part. Bus broke down half way and all had to change to another. Nice welcome at great guesthouse in bishkek. Easy evening.

Most incredible breakfast. Crap weather. Head off to karakol, along lake and yurts and sheep herds and horses and people on fields. Cbt and tourist info closed. Head to marzey guesthouse just to hear owner is swiss and his wife on the way here. Would rather pay locals than foreugners. Karakol is pretty though. Very quiet and small but lovely houses making up a beautiful village around sovjet center.