Day Three
BishkekKyrgyzstan42.87779/74.60669
A continuation from day two, since we landed around 05:40 in the morning in Bishkek. We wanted to make the most of the day and decided not to sleep, but instead hike around Ala Archa National Park.
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While this seems weird, we had two reasons one: we only have two days here, so sleeping for a day would not be great. And two: sleeping during the day would only make it more difficult to get rid of the Jetlag.
We explored the hotel neighbourhood in search for an ATM and a supermarket, both were around the corner and booked a driver to take us to the park and back.
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We were planning to hike to a waterfall, and it starts a good way into the park. On the internet we read about people who were dropped off at the beginning of the park, taking 2-3 hours just to get to the start of the 3 hour hike.
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Well that also happened to us, despite explicitly asking to drop us off at the start of the hike to both the Hotel clerk and the driver.
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It started to dawn on us about half an hour into the hike and after a few "lets just check this corner", we took our losses and headed back. The scenery was still amazing, and so was the weather so it wasn't a loss, just not what we had planned.
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