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Kyrgyzstan - Paradise

But they're styill making East German-style power pylons new

Jo purifying our water from what the locals drink

A dip in the world's second highest alpine lake, Izzy-kul. Not as cold as Peru's Lake Titiccaca was.

Brendan decides to become New Zealand's highest underwater diver

Some of the Soviet scrap that lines the shore of Izzy-Kul

Scots College bear makes it to the shores of the world's second highest alpine lake

Evidence of the Soviet era remains everywhere - lenin atop an office block

Abandoned Soviet factories are everywhere

Lake Izzy-kul from the balcony of our hotel

Scrap of Soviet factories is bundled up and trucked over the forbidding Torugat Pass to China

Some of the trucks though find the going a bit tough

Lenin remains immortalised despite the collapse of his dream

Geological art in abundance

Gorgeous Kyrgyzstan

.. and some of the crowd today have strange hats

This mosque brought to you by .. the local tea company

tea for two, shall I pour?

About as much as a girl can afford to show in a muslim country

Hey mate, what do you reckon?

Look at all the weird Kiwis taking the waters

Bodies are always interred above the ground so there's tombs everywhere

Joanne gets more attention than she deserves - as usual

Nomads reign here still

and the mountain passes are cold - even in summer as we are now

Gasoline is available at the most basic of facilities. Not a high traffic count you'll understand

Countryside mosque

Cooling off with the locals

Hauntingly beautiful

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