Design your holidays in nomadic Kyrgyzstan according to this unique Festivals and Events Calendar.

This ancient land is drenched in history and culture and with so few tourists daring to venture here.

The history of Bukharian Jews in Central Asia, who preserved its religion and national identity in almost total isolation.

Explore ancient towers of Central Asia. The silent beauty of the minarets adds a remarkable spectacle to the ancient cities’ Ensembles.

Carpet production in Central Asia is ancient — from times when people started to produce multi-colored, woolen, felt mats.

Hunting with golden eagles is a national tradition of the Kyrgyz, Kazakhs and Mongols. It goes back to ancient times, when it was the...

Sports at the III World Nomadic Games Currently, the world has a huge number of sports events, for example, the Olympic Games, Asian...

The wildlife of Central Asia is diverse and unique. Its representatives have adapted to different climatic conditions - from the hot...

The Soviet Union as a multilingual and multicultural socialist society has been officially committed to the development of communism on...

Eastern hospitality The main feature of Central Asia families is hospitality and traditional respect to elders. People usually live in...

At the end of 12th - early 13th centuries the political situation in the steppes of Central Asia were represented by the growing struggle...

The territory of Central Asia, which consists of vast expanses of steppe-land, desert and semi-desert with fine seasonal pastures, was...

The mention of Central Asian foodways usually conjures up competing images of nomadic and sedentary lifestyles. In one, the roving...

Bride kidnapping, also known as marriage by abduction or marriage by capture, is a practice in which a man abducts the woman he wishes to...

Wise people say that the City of Osh existed before the birth of the prophet Sueiman. They also say that the first man on earth predicted...

80 km from the village of At-Bashi and 18 km from the Torugart road, in a picturesque gorge of Kara-Koyum, there are the ruins of...

Issyk-Kul is an endorheic lake in the northern Tian Shan Mountains in eastern Kyrgyzstan. It is the tenth largest lake in the world by...

Short historical overview. In 1763 Czarina Catherina II issued a manifest which invited foreigners to settle in Russia. They obtained a...

Petroglyphs are images created by removing part of a rock surface by incising, picking, carving, or abrading, as a form of rock art....

Summer tourism in Central Asia is constantly growing. In summertime countries of the region are ready to offer multiple resort,...