Have you been keeping up with Joshua Kucera‘s travels from Istanbul to Beijing? You should be—not only is he writing some good, insightful dispatches for Eurasianet.org while he’s at it, his blog has some wonderful stories of what a regular person traveling around the region can see. In the last week he’s been wandering around Issyk-Kul and Karakol, way up in the northern mountains of Kyrgyzstan.
Yeah, so that’s not pretty at all. At all. He recounts the surreality of a Kyrgyz nomad singing Beyoncé, Turanbek the devil child, a semi-abandoned bus station in Osh, and finally the adventure of buying certified “No AIDS” documentation from the border guards.
It’s all fantastic writing, with beautiful photos, so you should go catch up on his latest adventures. Did I mention I’m supremely jealous I’m stuck in an office?
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Joshua Foust – author of 1801 posts on Registan.net.
Joshua Foust is a Fellow at the American Security Project and the author of Afghanistan Journal: Selections from Registan.net. His research focuses primarily on Central and South Asia. Joshua is a correspondent for The Atlantic and a columnist for PBS Need to Know. Joshua appears regularly on the BBC World News, Aljazeera, and international public radio. Joshua is also a regular contributor to Foreign Policy’s AfPak Channel, and his writing has appeared in the New York Times, Reuters, and the Christian Science Monitor. Follow him on twitter: @joshuafoust
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