Kyrgyzstan is a landlocked country located in Central Asia. Much of the country is within the Tien Shan Mountain Range and as such most of its land area is very rugged and undeveloped. Kyrgyzstan is known for its beautiful landscapes and its long history of nomadic peoples. Some of the country is developed however and Kyrgyzstan’s largest cities are its capital, Bishkek, and Osh. The country is also known for its many ethnic clashes and tensions between its native Kyrgyz people, Uzbeks, and other nationals from its neighboring countries.

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Mass public transport

There is public transportation available, including buses, electric trolley buses, and public vans (known in Russian asmarshrutka). The first bus and trolley bus services in Osh were introduced in 1934 and 1951 correspondingly.[38]

Taxi cabs can be found throughout the city.

There is no subway in Osh, but the city is considering designing and building a light rail system (Russian: Бишкекское лёгкое метро ).

• Osh Airport is the main air terminal in the south, with daily connections to Bishkek and beyond.

Bridge

Large, mood-lit basement pub with leather and tartan seats around a fireplace licking electric flames. Extensive cocktail and beer list plus a selection of ‘world’ food including tasty chicken fajitas.

Feel City

Beneath the big Abdykadyrov bridge, there’s a lounge-bar/karaoke, restaurant section and disco that favours ’80s and ’90s Russian hits on weekend nights.

Parliament

Dance away the summer nights in this breezy, partly open-air disco tucked into the parkland between Tsarskii Dvor and Koreana Korean restaurants.

Izyum

Osh’s most complete drinking/dining experience is a hit in summer for its riverside and woodland tea/dining platforms, but it also has a stylishly angular cafe with amply piled cushions on wide sofa seats. Slightly spongy pizza supplements sushi, steaks and local food choices. Separated enough not to disturb diners, the bar is stacked with back-lit bottles. Dancing is possible as the evening wears on.

Tsarskii Dvor

This big ski-lodge?style log chalet has heavy wooden throne seats, a rear beer terrace and a range of barbeques, fish dishes and sausages. There’s a 20som cover when musicians play (soft sax). Nightclub behind.

Atstek

Smart restaurant with inverted Aztec pyramid lamps and a wide-ranging menu including Mexican dishes. The cafe section serves top-notch espressos at remarkably inexpensive prices.

Suleiman Too

This five-peaked rocky crag seems to loom above the city wherever you go. It has been a Muslim place of pilgrimage for centuries, supposedly because the Prophet Mohammed once prayed here. Its slopes are indented with many a cave and crevice each reputed to have different curative or spiritual properties (many detailed on photo-boards in the Cave Museum ). One such is fertility mini-cave Ene-Beshik , its rocks worn smooth by young ladies slithering in to aid their motherly aspirations. You’ll see it right beside the path to the Cave Museum as you descend westward from Suleiman Too’s main viewpoint. On that crag lies the one-room Dom Babura , a 1989 reconstruction of a historic prayer-room whose tradition dates back to 1497, when 14-year-old Zahiruddin Babur of Fergana built himself a little prayer-retreat here. Later famed as progenitor of the Mogul Dynasty, Babur’s place of worship later became highly revered but subsequent incarnations have been destroyed notably by both earthquake (1853) and, in the 1960s, by a ‘mysterious’ explosion.

Allow around 20 minutes’ sweaty climb on the hairpin stairway to Dom Babura from Suleiman Too’s main entrance, which is beside the strange silver-domed building that looks like an alien fairy cake , but actually contains a photography salon. Inside newlyweds can be snapped on honeymoon at the Taj Mahal without actually bothering to leave Osh.

Dom Babura

The one-room Dom Babura is a 1989 reconstruction of an historic prayer-room whose tradition dates back to 1497. In that year the 14-year-old Zahiruddin Babur of Fergana built himself a little prayer-retreat here. Later famed as projenitor of the Mogul Dynasty, Babur’s place of private worship became highly revered but various incarnations have been destroyed notably by earthquake (1853) and, in the 1960s, by mysterious explosion. Most local people are convinced that the latter was a Soviet attempt to halt ‘superstition’, ie Islamic pilgrimage.