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# Landscape

5 Posts published in this tag

There and Back Again: Burana Tower

Published on June 4, 2015

The Kyrgyz are historically a semi-nomadic people, and they’ve left behind few permanent traces of their two-thousand-year existence…

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When in Arslanbob

Published on June 4, 2015

Dear friends: on Monday, I wrote a detailed report of my visit to Arslanbob, but I somehow managed…

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The Long and Winding Road to Arslanbob

Published on May 31, 2015

Loath though I am to admit it, my days in Kyrgyzstan are numbered. I’ve enjoyed nearly every minute…

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Another Foray into the Mountains

Published on November 5, 2014

Science dictates that winter begins at the winter solstice – usually December 21st or 22nd. Bishkek’s municipal government,…

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Escaping the City

Published on October 14, 2014

For fans of brutalist architecture, socialist-realist art, monumental statues of Soviet statesmen and war heroes, and oddly placed…

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