It sounded good to us. A forest in which you can walk nearly infinitely sleep in the middle of it in a rural village surrounded by walnuts and mountains. So we decided to go.

We got a shared car with a fake family (we genuinely thought they were a family but they didn’t know each other at all). On the way we go thorough a mountain pass that is 3330 meters high.

After 11 hours travelling we are left at the t-junction to Arslanbob. We are just an hour away biut seems impossible to get a ride. This couple offers us their house, it was nice, but they smelt of vodka too mush to accept their invitation.

All the ones that offered to take us to Arslanbob had too much of a smiley face or somehow reddish eyes due to vodka. It was a zombie land, not much light and no one walking straight… After an hour we met a man that seemed sober and that didn’t ask too much of an abusive price. We got seven people in his Daewo Tico (one of the smallest cars I’ve ever got into) and went to Arslanbob. We loved the village.

We would have wanted to cross from Issy-Köl lake but the road was closed due to snow.

The harvest season has finished but there are still tons of nuts on the ground.

Look at far as you want, 11.000 hectares of trees that brings 1500 tons of nuts a year. There are also other fruit trees, 5000 tons of apples are collected a year.

Alexander the great got these nuts when he was in this part of the world and brought them to Europe. Now they are the ones used in European plantations and are known as Greek nuts.

in the background the Basah- Ata range.

The traditional clothes are great.

We sit under a tree to have a rest and eat something. The view is perfect. Nothing is heard, there’s been an hour hearing nothing, and during the next hours nothing is heard either, well, some birds, the wind when it blows and the crack of nuts when we break them to eat them. It’s a very peaceful feeling that has made me get into nature more.

Amazing faces with amazing smiles. Don´t miss the guy at the back with the coat, the beard and the hat, I’ll try to put more pictures of people like that in next post.

Our two days have gone fast, now we leave Arshlanbob  it’s nuts and it’s 80 meters waterfall to go to Osh where in June of this year there were revolts and ethnic problems. We’ve heard that 70% of the buildings were burned. “what will we find?

Soon from Osh.
Fernando