Well good morning good morning. Today we are coming to you from Supara Chunkurchak and
we are currently doing a luxury yurt stay which is pretty nice because we've been doing
a lot of outdoorsy stuff so it is nice to kind of like pamper ourselves. Yeah. As our
trip winds down.
Basically right at the end of our trip. And yeah we're just relaxing here. We have a amazing
views of the mountains. Yes, mountains, forests. Oh gosh. Haha.
And yeah um we've just been relaxing this morning and now it is time for breakfast.
Yeah, and after breakfast we'll be giving you a tour of the whole property so stay tuned
for that.
So off to breakfast we go and we have a whole bunch of yurts here that we're walking past.
We're staying in number five but they have so many. Look. More up there. Tada.
So where are we headed Sam? We are heading to the Mother Station. Check out that. That
is the Mother Yurt. The Mother Ship. Off we go. It is so cool.
Breakfast time. Breakfast. So I think I'm going to grab some lovely spread. Going in
for fruit first. Nuts. Jams.
Well? Well we had a bit of a buffet so there was a wide selection and I went for my favorite
- a big piece of bread and here they have mmm fresh churned cream. Good morning.
We have fresh churned cream and then Kyrgyz honey which is my favorite. Oh, that is the
best. It is so good. It has a bit of a floral taste. It is probably some of the best honey
I've ever tasted. Like it just has such a raw taste to it. Yeah, so this is what I start
every morning with bread, cream, honey. Haha.
Can't go wrong with that.
Mmmm.
Isn't that good? Mmmhmmm.
And over here I'm just starting off with a salad plate and some fruit and then I'm going
to move on to porridge and maybe a little bit of bread and maybe some cheese too but
definitely some of that cream and honey on that bread. Oh yeah.
Good morning good morning. So as you can see I'm out on a bit of a solo mission this morning.
I'm going to be hiking by myself.
Audrey is back at the yurt doing a little bit of work but man it is just such a nice
day outside that I couldn't stay in. I should be doing a little bit of work myself but I've
just decided to go out, do a little hike and see if I can get some really awesome views
of the mountains off in the distance.
Early on into the hike I've already got a couple of different path options. This one
appears to lead more into the woods. This one appears to lead out into the sun. And
it is already scorching hot so we are going to go this way.
This is my first peak out of the woods and I have to say already the views are looking
really impressive. Now if I can only get to an even higher vantage point I should get
a better view of the snow-capped mountains.
Time for another quick update here. And as you can see I've made it already a fare distance
because those white little specs you see off in the distance that is the yurt we are staying
in.
And this is the part where the path is getting a little bit tricky simply because there isn't
really much of one. It is sort of lightly defined but I'm kind of just winging it to
be perfectly honest.
So this is perfect. This is exactly where I wanted to go in terms of flying the drone.
And you can see as I'm zooming in here that if I fly over the trees here I should get
a really nice view of the mountain. That is the plan Stan.
Well, that was an extremely successful hike and I would say drone flight. My main goal
was to get the drone over that hill with a nice kind of tree and mountain reveal and
I think I was able to do just that so mission accomplished.
And finally. And finally we've made it inside the yurt. I had to change because it got so
hot. Like seriously summer is here. But anyways you are inside the yurt. This is like the
little entrance. You've got a place to put your keys, your bag. Hello. Haha.
You can hang up your jacket. You have a little shoe rack.
They actually gave us some umbrellas. I know. You know it is a fancy hotel when they provide
an umbrella and this shoe thing. I don't even know how to use it. Is that called a shoe
horn? Maybe or awl or something like that? Owl?
A shoe owl. Awl like awl like A W L. What?
I could be totally wrong. Totally wrong. Come on in.
So we'll show you the bedroom next. Okay.
I'm taking off my slippers. Shoes off. Shoes off. There we go.
And first up we've got a little wood burning stove but there is no way we are turning this
on. Haha.
We do not need this. Yeah. In July. If anything we would be turning on this. The AC. Yes.
Okay.
And they gave us a yurt that actually sleeps three people. So maybe like a couple and a
child. So I claimed the this bed. Yep. All to myself. Haha. You took the big one and
Sam got the little kid bed.
Right because that totally makes sense. Because you're it is not like you're smaller than
me right? No. No no no.
It is not like I'm the big guy.
What else? And yeah we've got like a little desk area where we've just thrown all of our
computer stuff and camera gear. Yeah, a bunch of junk.
And then there is some paintings and other things along here. Here is another one that
is kind of cool.
Very representative of Kyrgyzstan here. We have the yurts and we have the mountains in
the background and of course let's actually take a look up here.
I know. That is the best part. The best part. This is where you can tell it is a yurt. Yeah,
and everything is covered in felt like the ceiling and the walls and they also have cool
felt designs with camels. Yep.
And last year we actually attended a felt making workshop where we saw how they work
the wool and how they dye it and like turn it into cool shapes. Yep.
So yeah, it has been a really really nice room. I slept so well last night. It is so
dark in here. Oh, the other thing we didn't show was that okay there is a lamp here. I
thought we had a kettle somewhere. I moved the kettle. Oh you did okay.
Was it there before or am I just imagining things? Yeah.
So we'll take you to the next room now. It is a little brighter here.
I call this the sauna room. It is seriously probably like 10 degrees warmer than the bedroom.
Yeah.
Um but it is kind of like a little living room slash office. Yes. Slash kitchen. There
is the kettle. I'm not going crazy. Yeah.
Yeah, here is the kitchen. Well not a kitchen a fridge. Sorry not the kitchen the fridge.
They have a few things you can purchase um basically chocolates.
Kymys. Yes, they have kumis.
This is the fermented mare's milk. Yes, you can get that. This is basically the list of
all of the items and the prices in Som. Yeah.
And it would be nuts absolutely nuts if I didn't show you guys the views from here.
I know the views are amazing.
Absolutely incredible. We have floor to ceiling windows and you can see the mountains. Yeah.
The forest.
It is a little overcast. Earlier in the morning it was man the views were a lot more spectacular
but it is still incredible.
Yeah, and oh wait you know what we didn't show? What? We didn't show the bathroom.
Oh, the bathroom. Yes, the bathroom. Come along.
But I really like this room. I spent the whole morning in here just like working on my laptop.
Yep, and looking at the mountains. Exactly.
Okay, bathroom. Bathroom.
We have a sliding door. And I just love their doors. Like they've used tree branches kind
of like as handles which is awesome. Yep.
So I'm going to let you go in first since it is a small bathroom. It is pretty small
but it has everything. It has a blowdryer. A hair dryer. Blow dryer. Yeah, I guess that
is what it is called too. And then there is a sink and the toilet, the rack and then one
of these types of showers that opens from each the side and then here is the showerhead
and yeah. It is pretty cool.
I think this is the first yurt where we've had on own private bathroom. I know. This
is a fancy yurt. That is how you know it is luxury yurt. Yeah, all of the other yurts
we've slept in the toilet was an outhouse and you had to like walk there. Right.
A few meters in the dark with a flashlight. Where is the toilet? None of that in here.
No. We are this is like a glamping yurt or something. Oh yes.
So into the forest we go. Sam was already wandering around here in the morning with
his drone. Yep. That is right.
He must fly the drone. Must fly the drone. This is a little bit of a different area from
where I actually flew the drone. I came here first in the morning but it was a little bit
muddy so I went and did a different route which should be great this time of day.
So we've been doing our own independent walk but here on the property they actually offer
guided walks and you can also rent a horse and do a horse trek and actually the one thing
that we turned down you can drink kumis. Mare's milk. Fermented mare's milk. Not just once
a day but I think like three or five times a day. Yeah. LIke they have this program where
you just drink that during your whole stay. It is supposed to be a health program apparently.
Supposedly a health program but honestly I don't love the taste. It is a little bit like
salty and sour. So we said no thank you instead. We politely declined. Politely declined.