Explore

What’s the best way to get to know a new city? The following resources have been created to encourage you to wander whole districts, take self-guided walking tours, or to set goals for finding multiple related locations. In the process, you’ll hopefully get a better feel for how the city is organized and maintained and what sense of character and history it exudes.

April 28, 2019

Guide to Bishkek’s Top Museums

The Kyrgyz were largely a nomadic civilization up until the 20th century. It should be no surprise, then, that many of Kyrgyzstan’s greatest museums are outside and/or in rural areas. The city of Bishkek also has a number of more traditional museums, mostly established during (and today often unchanged from) Soviet times, including a number […]