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The Best Places to Go Around Issyk-Kul Kyrgyzstan

Issyk-Kul is 182 kilometers long, 668 meters deep, and almost never explored beyond the north shore beach. Behind it: glacial lakes, eagle hunters, Bronze Age petroglyphs, sandstone canyon country, and backcountry ski terrain that most of the world has never heard of. Ten places worth going. Kyrgyzstan 8 min

El Choro Trek: Three Days from the Andes to the Amazon

El Choro drops 3,000 meters from La Paz's doorstep to the cloud forests of the Yungas in three days, crossing five ecological zones on a road that has been in continuous use for over a thousand years. Here is everything you need to know before you go. Bolivia 9 min

A Week in the Tien Shan

Four days on the Ala-Kul circuit, a pass that closes for eight months of the year, and the shepherd families who are only up there while the grass holds. Kyrgyzstan 9 min

The Shepherds of the Jailoo

Three generations of one family still move their herds up to the summer pasture below Ala-Kul every June, and the season is getting shorter. 8 min

Why Karakol Eats Dungan

The best food in the Issyk-Kul basin came north with refugees in the 1880s and never left. What to order, and where. 5 min

Reading a Kyrgyz Pass Before You Climb It

What the snow line, the cloud and the colour of the water tell you the night before a crossing. Kyrgyzstan 7 min

Bolivia Dropped Its Visa Requirement for Americans

On December 1, 2025, Bolivia moved the United States into its visa-free category and ended the $160 reciprocity fee that had stood since 2007. 13 min

The Bare Minimum

Ushguli Village: Why Europe’s Highest Settlement Looks Like It Did a Thousand Years Ago

At 2,200 meters in the Georgian Caucasus, Ushguli is one of Europe's highest continuously inhabited settlements. What makes it extraordinary is not the altitude but the reason it survived intact: a thousand years of inaccessibility that no invader, no centralizing government, and no road ever fully overcame. 9 min

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