While I've been in St Petersburg since Saturday, I've had major internet connectivity problems due to roaming software database authentication errors and so I haven't been able to upload anything from my computer all of this week. Now that an alternative account has been arranged, I have added the last two galleries of photos shot during my stay in Kyrgyzstan.

The Akun Resort album
contains images from the Soviet-style resort on the shores of Lake Issyk-Kul. I use the term 'resort' loosely as the quality of hotel I stayed in bordered on 1 to 2 star, the facilities were primitive (and public toilets absolutely putrid), and the entire complex was filled with interestingly rundown and abandoned structures. Nevertheless, the stay was a very interesting, enjoyable, and visually memorable one.

The second gallery contains just a small selection of images shot in and around Bishkek, the capital city of Kyrgyzstan, and from the outskirts of the Issyk-Kul bioreserve. The city itself is very poverty-stricken with extremely limited infrastructural development and is filled with communist architecture and monuments. Nevertheless, it is bustling with energy and a stark contrast to industrialised Russian cities like St Petersburg and Moscow.