Osh bazaar

Osh bazaar: it's in Bishkek.

Osh bazaar: colourful

Osh is on the other side of the country from Bishkek. A high altitude melting pot with ethnic tensions that often spark riots and revolutions in phase with El Ninio. We didn't go to Osh. We went to Osh bazaar, in Bishkek.

I was expecting a big noisy open place but in fact it was lots of intricate, intimate, pseudo-corridors of market stalls. Sewing machines on the stalls, beams of daylight coming through gaps in the ad hoc canvas over-hanging roofs, bright and beautiful colours, and all somehow in tune with the serenity that is Bishkek and Kygyzstan's general MO. 

The bazaar was a great place to walk around and suck up the atmosphere. But it wasn't a good place to buy shoes, as we found out to Gulnur's expense.

Osh bazaar: gap year.