Today we wandered around the familiar city of Bishkek stopping in at CBT (Community Based Tourism) and a map store for some information about our upcoming trip to Aslanbob in the south of Kyrgyzstan. We then made our way to some shops to buy some mementos of our time here - after a couple of hours we walked away with a traditional hat (ak kalpak) and carpet (shyrdak) for ourselves (you can see a colourful version of a shyrdak in yesterday's photo), we also managed to sneak a gift in for the youngest members of our families. Being so concerned about space and money, it always feels odd to buy stuff, but we plan to do a send home from Nepal and it's so nice to have something special to remember a country by.
Along the way we stopped to watch the change of guards under the flag pole. Everytime we wander past the guards standing still and silent under the flag pole we mention how boring a job it must be - at least now we know that they don't have to stand there all day!
We got some takeaway samsa, stocked up on some food for when we head into the mountains tomorrow and then made our way to the Kazakh Embassy to pick up our transit visas.
Adlibing away money.
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