{"id":8102,"date":"2016-09-18T19:33:02","date_gmt":"2016-09-18T16:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ants-in-pants.com\/?p=8102"},"modified":"2017-12-31T19:12:35","modified_gmt":"2017-12-31T17:12:35","slug":"osh-jalal-abad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ants-in-pants.com\/en\/blog\/osh-jalal-abad\/","title":{"rendered":"Osh and Jalal-Abad (Kyrgyzstan)"},"content":{"rendered":"

After our Pamir adventures<\/a>, we finally reached Osh in Kyrgyzstan. We decided to relax there: it has everything you could crave for in the mountain villages: shower (sometimes even hot), fruits and vegetables in large quantities, and lots of other foods.<\/p>\n

Osh.<\/h4>\n

We stayed in the hotel Alay in the center, it was not too good, but the location and the price were more than satisfactory.
\n\"Hotel<\/p>\n

In the same evening, we had a dinner consisting from lagman<\/em> (Central Asian soup), beer, and water melon, all of which we really missed. There is a lot of food in Osh<\/strong> \u2013 that is why it is often recommended to shop for food there before going to Pamir.
\nWe started the next day with sightseeing. The city is not too rich with sights (still it is better for relaxing), yet, you may try.
\n\"Osh\"<\/p>\n

For instance, the city park here is much more pleasant than in Dushanbe: it has a lot of shooting ranges, with prizes too. The guns are quite specific and not easy to point.
\n\"osh<\/p>\n

In the park, there is also an old Yak-40 plane: they still fly between the Tajik capital Dushanbe<\/a> and the capital of Pamir Khorog<\/a>.
\n\"osh<\/p>\n

Yet, the center of Osh life is the sacred mountain Sulayman too which has been included into UNESCO heritage list (entrance fee 20 soms). It opens a great view on the city.
\n\"mountain<\/p>\n

\"osh<\/p>\n

History museum is situated here too (entrance fee 20 soms, yet, in our case it was closed for lunch. It is said that it is nothing special though).
\n\"History<\/p>\n

There are seven caves situated at Sulayman mountain, Chakka Tamar and Tepeunkur being the most famous.
\n\"osh<\/p>\n

It is recommended to roll down a mountain in a particular place for seven times to increase your fertility \ud83d\ude42
\n\"scariest<\/p>\n

On the top of the mountain there is a mosque Tahty Sulayman which was exploded in 1963 and restored based on the archival materials and schemes in 1991. At the foot of the mountain, there is another mosque, Ravat-Abdulahanna which was first built in the 16th century, destroyed and restored later.
\n\"Tahty<\/p>\n

If you still want to visit the museum, there is another possibility in the center of the city \u2013 the three-storey urt ethnographic museum.
\n\"osh<\/p>\n

Jalal-Abad.<\/h4>\n

At this point we finished sightseeing in Osh and went for another destination \u2013 smaller town of Jalal-Abad.
\nMinibuses depart for Jalal-Abad from the bus station every half an hour till 6 pm, they are quite new. Passengers in a hurry sometimes take the ride standing, yet, you may wait for the next, empty vehicle. The road between Osh and Jalal-Abad is quite new, but there are many cars, and the bus driver even said that there are more cars than dwellers there. That is why they sometimes overtake each other in a dangerous way.
\n\"Jalal-Abad\"<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

It took us about an hour and a half to reach Jalal-Abad: as usually, the bus station was beyond the city center, several kilometres away from the marketplace. The driver showed several hotels to us: one was terribly ugly (next to the bus station, for 700 soms), another one behind the gas station cost 1100 soms. We chose the third one \u2013 1000 soms for a room with shower, toilet, TV and fan. All the hotels are based along the main road, so you may choose on your way. There are even better ones, but more expensive.
\nYou may reach the market by Tico cars \u2013 that is how the locals name taxis the majority of which are Daewoo Ticos \u2013 for 15 soms. There is also a rare minibus nr. 105. On your way you may observe sights and people.
\n\"Jalal-Abad\"<\/p>\n

\"Jalal-Abad\"<\/p>\n

From the market you may reach the Jalal-Abad resort. An elderly driver agreed to drive us there for 100 soms, but since we knew little about the place, he cheated us by bringing to the lower parking lot (while the price is fixed for the upper parking). That is why we had to take another car. The resort is famous for its mineral spring, stinking yet healing mud and mineral showers. Unfortunately, we came too late: usually mineral baths are open till 5, but on this day they closed at 4. Newlyweds come to the park to take photos.
\n\"Jalal-Abad<\/p>\n

\"Kyrgyz<\/p>\n

\"Jalal-Abad\"<\/p>\n

Some cultural experience: when Kyrgyzs learned that we are from Belarus, everyone wanted to send his or her ironic greetings to Bakiev, the former president of Kyrgyzstan who stole a lot of money and ran away to Belarus (taken good care of by Lukashenko now).
\nIn Jalal-Abad we had tabaka chicken: for that we had to wait for the cafe to open, since this was during the fasting month, when the Muslims do not eat (and drink) between the sunrise and sunset.
\n\"Kyrgyz<\/p>\n

We planned to see the surrounding sights the next day, but our plans changed by chance<\/a>. This was for the better!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After our Pamir adventures, we finally reached Osh in Kyrgyzstan. We decided to relax there: it has everything you could crave for in the mountain villages: shower (sometimes even hot), fruits and vegetables in large quantities, and lots of other foods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[8,2806],"tags":[2786,2754,1770,2805,2767,2670],"class_list":["post-8102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia","category-kyrgyzstan","tag-culture","tag-ethnic-cuisine","tag-mountains","tag-muslim","tag-park","tag-resort"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ants-in-pants.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Osh-1IMG_5834.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9x48k-26G","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ants-in-pants.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ants-in-pants.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ants-in-pants.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ants-in-pants.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ants-in-pants.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ants-in-pants.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ants-in-pants.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ants-in-pants.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ants-in-pants.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ants-in-pants.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}