We are at Bishkek in Kyrgyztan. Before coming here we were thinking to go to Khazakstan, but we heard that Kyrgyz is cheaper than Khazak and Psymeg can get Kyrgyz visa at Urumqi in Xinjiang, China. Japanese citizens don't need Kyrgyz visa, so it doesn't matter for me.

And from here we were thinking to go to Uzbekistan, but NZ citizens need LOI (letter of invitation) to get Uzbek visa, Japanese don't need it though...

So now we are thinking to fly to Turkey and then go to Greece, Macedonia and go back to Turkey again and take a ferry to Ukraine, take a train to Russia. And from Moscow we will take the Tranz Syberian Railway to Vladivostok and take a ferry from there to Toyama in Japan. It's third time to change our travel route. Humm...

We came from Kashgar, China via Naryn, Kyrgyz. Naryn is a district capital city but is a really tiny city or town. And most of people are Kyrgyz who look like Mongolian or other Asian people. When we were there, local people greeted Psymeg "Hello" or "How are you?", but they greeted me by saying "Nihao (Hello in Chinese)". Even though they knew that I am Japanese they spoke to me in Chinese. Oh, well...

But in Bishkek a few people consider that Psymeg is a foreign tourist and I am a local Kyrgiz, so sometime when we asked them, they talked to me in Russian. That's interesting.

Psymeg has visa problems and I have cultural identity problems!