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		<title>Beijing</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 02:08:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Due to a series of travel arrangement snafus, the unexpected last stop in the Saramistbixian Silk Road tour was a 20 hour lay-over in Beijing  (and the name of this blog should probably be changed to &#8220;saramistbiJING&#8221; as a result).  Even after staying awake for more than 30 hours straight (ended up round [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saramistbixian.wordpress.com&blog=3899575&post=761&subd=saramistbixian&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kyrgzy drive-by</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2008 20:11:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mimi</dc:creator>
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While traveling through those corduroy hills of the Kyrgzy Republic, I had the chance to sample some mare&#8217;s milk &#8212; fermented, smoky, not-pasteurized or homogenized, a little bit alcoholic.  It&#8217;s sold at roadside stands, like this:

The kids will pour you about a liter in a recycled plastic container; they let you sample, too, in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saramistbixian.wordpress.com&blog=3899575&post=749&subd=saramistbixian&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Back in Naryn</title>
		<link>http://saramistbixian.wordpress.com/2008/07/30/back-in-naryn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 06:21:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mimi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spent most of the time in Naryn walking around the city, looking at the sights, like the statue to the &#8220;new generation&#8221; &#8212; 

visiting with that new generation:
wandering around Naryn&#8217;s neighborhoods; checking out the natural history museum (not in the guide books &#8212; a walk-by find!); doing a little window-shopping at the art gallery and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saramistbixian.wordpress.com&blog=3899575&post=724&subd=saramistbixian&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tash Rabat</title>
		<link>http://saramistbixian.wordpress.com/2008/07/30/tash-rabat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 05:10:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mimi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Kyrgzstan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Doesn&#8217;t it sound oh-so-mysterious?  Tash Rabat is the site of a 15th century (could be 5th &#8212; time does fly, and there&#8217;s no question but that these kinds of places have been around 4-evah) caravanserai; sometime mosque; occasional church, and general resting point amongst Silk Road travelers.  Remember that scene in the very [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saramistbixian.wordpress.com&blog=3899575&post=713&subd=saramistbixian&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Road to Naryn</title>
		<link>http://saramistbixian.wordpress.com/2008/07/28/road-to-naryn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:31:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mimi</dc:creator>
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I don&#8217;t have a lot to say about rest stops on the highway on the road to Naryn except for this:  if you&#8217;re a vegetarian who eats fish you might be okay, but you still might want to pack a lunch, and maybe bring sleeping pills or something &#8212; the good drivers are the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saramistbixian.wordpress.com&blog=3899575&post=684&subd=saramistbixian&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In Bishkek</title>
		<link>http://saramistbixian.wordpress.com/2008/07/28/in-bishkek/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:30:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite the sunny-appearing picture below, Bishkek is dreary, dark, and overgrown &#8211; not much in the way of municipal services.  And it gets very very hot.  This is the main government square on a Tuesday afternoon &#8212; their version of the DC mall&#8230;

The city is green this time of year; and there is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saramistbixian.wordpress.com&blog=3899575&post=688&subd=saramistbixian&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bishkek&#8217;s National Fine Arts Museum</title>
		<link>http://saramistbixian.wordpress.com/2008/07/28/bishkeks-national-fine-arts-museum/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 06:31:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mimi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ So, the photos on my fritzin&#8217; memory card were largely recovered; not all, but at least some. Here are some photos of paintings and other works at the National Fine Arts Gallery in Bishkek; there wasn&#8217;t a lot there, not many people go (it costs 20 som for Kyrgyz (about $0.35), 100 som (I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saramistbixian.wordpress.com&blog=3899575&post=670&subd=saramistbixian&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>KYRGYZSTAN</title>
		<link>http://saramistbixian.wordpress.com/2008/07/24/kyrgzstan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:53:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mimi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
There, I think I finally spelled it right.  The memory card holding my photos of Bishkek, including photos of the Kyrgzy National Fine Arts Museum, overgrown parks, Soviet-block architecture, and decay, seems to have broken; so I have little to post from Bishkek, the capital.  Which is good &#8212; because I wouldn&#8217;t want [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saramistbixian.wordpress.com&blog=3899575&post=632&subd=saramistbixian&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A few last pix of Istanbul</title>
		<link>http://saramistbixian.wordpress.com/2008/07/24/a-few-last-pix-of-istanbul/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:48:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mimi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Turkey]]></category>
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Bridge over the Bosphorus, connecting Europe and Asia.

And I couldn&#8217;t resist one last balloon-over-Cappadocia

Here are the rabbits who told my fortune, outside of the Aya Sofia &#8212; all signs point to lettuce &#8212; in other words, it&#8217;s all lookin&#8217; good.  Specifically, the rabbits sniff, select and pull out a little blue folded piece of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saramistbixian.wordpress.com&blog=3899575&post=616&subd=saramistbixian&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>TeaSugarDream</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:58:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mimi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Turkey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[travel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Tea-sugar-dream&#8221; is how &#8220;thank you&#8221;  is easiest said in Turkish, by English-speakers, according to the Turks.  Easy to remember, but I felt like an idiot, garbling the language, everytime I tried to say it. Nonetheless, folks were patient with me, which was greatly appreciated.   And everywhere they offered me apple tea, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saramistbixian.wordpress.com&blog=3899575&post=477&subd=saramistbixian&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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