• Kyrgyzstan (final day road trip)

    September 17, 2024 in Kyrgyzstan ⋅ ☁️ 17 °C

    My road trip to Kyrgyzstan has come to an end. 😔

    The scenery here is amazing and so varied. I will come back again to hike. 😊

    As it's a road trip I'll finish with something, both sad and a little funny, about some of the cars here.

    There are left-hand and right-hand drive cars in Kyrgyzstan, and both are legal. The 'normal' and most common is left hand drive as they drive on the right-hand side of the road

    The reason there are right-hand drive vehicles is due to Japan's Fukushima nuclear disaster. Following this, Japan had a number of brand-new radioactive right-hand drive cars to sell. As they were dirt cheap, Kyrgyzstan people bought them. 😔

    Locations today - Jety Oguz, famous for its two red rock formations called “Seven Bulls” and “The Broken Heart”. Skazka Canyon (Fairytale Canyon) - fantasy-like shapes carved into the red sandstone from centuries of wind and water.
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