Spring in Bishkek and this is early April :)
Sandra, Ira and Lumi, AIESEC Kyrgyzstan
Masha, me, Sandra, Ira and Lumi, working on AIESEC Kyrgyzstan external environment.
Ala-Archa park
Local people :)
Ala-Archa
Podsnejniki, aka kokicheta, aka the first spring flowers
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Trying to set up a fire
Yurta, the typical nomad home
A Kyrgyz woman with lepeshki - traditional bread made in a special round oven called tyndyr.
Selling lepeshki
Children playing in a school yard
AIESEC Kyrgyzstan meeting
For my dearest Russian friends :) Machine for sparkling water with syrup. They still use 5 cups for everyone, which I truly doubt are washed.
The same machine as above, but not working.
Cafe Kyrgyzstan
Welcome!
The national opera and ballet
Very interesting architecture mixed with the traditional columns and kind of Greek style and typically Soviet figures and symbols :).
I look like a school girl, I know. :)
Ira
Back to childhood
The happiness factory :).
Look at the number of the car! No, it is not what you thought :). All the cars in Kyrgyzstan that are owned by business organizations have thi number. It simply means KG=Kyrgyzstan, B=Bishkek and the rest is the car number :)
The main square.
The Government building called by the local people The White House.
Change of the guards.
The national flag with the statue of liberty.
Statue of liberty. Each and every post-communist country has a statue somewhere in the country representing the independence of the country. So not too hard to guess what is the statue about when you see it :). And of course it was Lenin standing on this column few years back. Now Lenin is moved behind the building you see at the back.
Marks and Engels of course. Talking to each and not paying attention to what is happening around them. Sitting exactly opposite the American University. Sense the irony of the whole situation...
This is probably the most ironic picture I have made. Beneath the symbols of the Soviet Union it reads American University of Central Asia. Could it be more ironic?
Sandra and me before leaving to Kazakhstan.
