We arrive in Bishkek after a thankfully smooth marshutka trip. It is fast and easy to get our Visas at the border and in no time we arrive at our hostel, where we receive a warm welcome from Marcus, Fred, Jule and Werner. Leah unfortunately has a stomach bug the first two days so she takes it easy at the hostel while the others and I explore the city.
Bishkek is another obviously communist city and the old Soviet Union leaders are still imprinted in the minds of the Kyrgyzstani people. You still see numerous sculptures of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin situated around the city. I went to the Mikhail Frunze Museum, to learn a bit about the Kyrgyz history. Sadly most of the descriptions were written Kyrgyz or Russian so I was unable to read much but picked up bits and pieces about Mikhail Frunze and the 1905 Russian civil war in the Kyrgyz area. In honour of his achievement, Bishkek was even named after Frunze between 1926- 1991.
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