VirtualGlobetrotting: Kyrgyzstan: Bishkek

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Dordoy Bazaar - built from shipping containers
kjfitz (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: kjfitz.
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Dordoy Bazaar is a large wholesale and retail market in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. It is one of Asia's greatest public market places, comparable to Bangkok's Chatuchak weekend market or Tehran's Grand Bazaar.f Kyrgyzstan.
Most of the market is built of double-stacked shipping containers. Typically, the lower container is used as a shop, while the upper one is used for additional storage. According to a 2005 newspaper report, there were some 6,000 to 7,000 containers in the bazaar; around 20,000 people worked there (as vendors, security, service personnel).
The containers, organized in dozens of rows, form streets and plazas of a sort. Smaller buildings between the blocks of containers house restaurants, administrative offices, toilets, hotels, and other ancillary structures.

Manas aircraft boneyard
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By: Fab.
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C-17s & KC-135s at Ganci Air Base
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Manas International Airport
skyeye (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: skyeye.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manas_Air_Base
http://eyeball-series.org/manas/manas-base.htm

RJH-86 Russian time station
romulusnr (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: romulusnr.
Based on the arrays in Belarus and Krasnodar etc., this is the likely suspect to be the RJH-86 VLF array.

Spartak Stadion (Bishkek)
adrbr (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: adrbr.

Asanbay 2A
kkeps (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: kkeps.

White House, Bishkek
Xeba73 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Xeba73.
The White House is the presidential office building in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. The White House was the site of riots during both the 2005 Tulip Revolution and the 2010 Kyrgyzstani riots. During the 2010 riots a fire broke out and damaged portions of the building and destroyed the hard copies of many government records.

Bishkek Park (tallest buildings in Kyrgyzstan) under construction
kkeps (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: kkeps.
At 75 m (246 ft), these are the tallest buildings in Bishkek and in Kyrgyzstan.

Turkish Airlines Flight 6491 crash site
Fab (VirtualGlobetrotting)
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Monument to Kurmanjan Datka

Parliament House of Kyrgyzstan
Former Soviet Parliament House

Yurt (nomadic tent)
adrbr (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: adrbr.
A traditional yurt (from the Turkic languages) or ger (Mongolian) is a portable, round tent covered with skins or felt and used as a dwelling by nomads in the steppes of Central Asia.

Embassy of Germany in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
fin (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: fin.

Hyatt Hotel in Bishkek

Kok Baru. A National Sport.
Farceur (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Farceur.
Here we can see many horsemen playing the traditional game of Kok Baru where in order to win, the carcass of a goat or calf must be carried across the opposition teams end zone.
The game played in many of the surrounding countries and known by diffent names and is seen by animal welfare groups (mostly having no tradition anything like the Krygyz) as unneccessary and cruel.
The Kyrgyz people treasure their horses and have honed their horsemanship over many centuries of hunting and competition.
The kyrgyz horses are a breed unto themselves; the purity of which was nearly lost by cross breeding them with larger foreign horses but now, thanks to the intervention of Kyrgyz horse enthusiasts they have now rebounded and are no longer endangered.

Embassy of the United States, Bishkek
Mike1989 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Mike1989.

Road Rage
Mieguy (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Mieguy.
Two people doing a Road Rage. They are holding up traffic and it continues further down the road.

Monument to Chinghiz Aitmatov

Embassy of India, Bishkek
kkeps (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: kkeps.

Ala-Too Square

DZ-99 grader
pak555 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: pak555.
The Soviet DZ-99 light class motor grader was manufactured by Bryansk Road Machinery Plant (now Bryansk Arsenal Company), with a diesel engine AM-41G (90 hp) or D60K-C1 (60 hp), the weight of the car is 9.5 tons. It has not been produced since the 1980s.

Osh Bazaar

Panfilov Park, Bishkek

Boeing 747
pak555 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: pak555.

"Coca-Cola Bishkek Bottlers" company
pak555 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: pak555.

Ala Archa National Park

Prigorodnyi Aerodrome

Baytik Aerodrome

Guljigit Kalykov - Let's go!
Guljigit Kalykov is a young vocalist from Kyrgyzstan

Politech Ski Resort
Featured in Leg 9 of HaMerotz LaMillion 6

Iran Aseman Airlines Flight 6895 crash site

Embassy of Russia in Bishkek

Helicopter boneyard

Aircraft boneyard

Statue of Kalyk Akiev

Embassy of Belarus in Bishkek

Embassy of Qatar in Bishkek

Embassy of Turkey in Bishkek

Embassy of South Korea in Bishkek

Bishkek-1 railway station

Embassy of Saudi Arabia in Bishkek

Bishkek power station

Embassy of China in Bishkek

Embassy of Azerbaijan in Bishkek

Bishkek Hippodrome

Bishkek-2 railway station

Oxford International School Bishkek

Embassy of Tajikistan in Bishkek

Kyrgyz-Turkish Manas University