TimesOnline: "The most beautiful country in the world"

Giles Whittell posted on the TimesOnline;

...Then onwards and upwards round numberless dirt hairpins to Son Kul, a perfect disc of water lying 10,000ft up in the legendary summer pasture of the Kyrgyz nomads. They still come here to pitch their yurts and graze their animals, but there's an extra yurt for us, with a felt-lined cot for the baby and placid, sleek brown horses tethered outside for the rest of us... (full article)

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