Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Bishkek
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Sights
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Zamira's Bazaar Rooms.........................A2
1
Al Halal Gallery ........................................H4
2
Ala-Too Square ........................................F3
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Eating
3
Ala-Too Square Fountains......................F3
32
Arzu Style .................................................E2
4
Frunze House-Museum ..........................F2
33
Cafeteria................................................... F4
5
Lenin Statue .............................................F2
34
Chaikhana Jalal-Abad.............................E3
6
State Historical Museum........................F2
35
Derevyashka ............................................D2
7
State Museum of Fine Arts.................... G2
Espresso.........................................(see 43)
8
Statue of Kurmanjan Datka....................F2
36
Faiza .......................................................... C1
37
Kebab Ojak ............................................... F4
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Activities, Courses & Tours
38
Manty Bar.................................................H2
9
Karven Club .............................................H4
39
Narodnyy/Shumkur ...............................D3
10
Russian Center of Science
Russian Drama Theatre Buffet.... (see 56)
and Culture ...........................................F5
40
Smyak .......................................................B2
11
Zhirgal Banya ..........................................H3
41
Zaporozhnaya Sech................................D4
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Sleeping
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Drinking & Nightlife
12
Altyn Saray ...............................................D1
42
12 Bar ........................................................ F4
13
Asia Mountains........................................ H5
43
Bar Suk .....................................................G2
14
Bishkek Guesthouse 1.............................C1
44
Coffeé........................................................E2
15
Bishkek Guesthouse 2 ............................B1
45
Coffeé........................................................D4
16
Holiday Hotel ........................................... G2
46
Dragon's Den ........................................... C1
17
Hotel Evropa............................................H3
47
Edgar.........................................................G2
18
Hotel Grand ..............................................C1
48
Fatboys .....................................................G3
19
Hotel Rich................................................. C2
49
Metro.........................................................C3
20
Hotel Sayrake.......................................... G2
50
Schwarzwald Baeckerei .........................D3
21
Hyatt Regency......................................... G2
51
Sierra Coffee............................................D3
22
Jalal-Abad Hotel...................................... A2
52
Snail...........................................................H2
23
NomaD Hostel......................................... G4
53
Telegraph .................................................D2
24
Park Hotel .................................................F2
25
Rodem House.......................................... C2
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Entertainment
26
Sabyrbek's B&B.......................................F4
54
Circus........................................................G2
27
Sakura Guesthouse.................................G1
55
Philharmonia............................................D2
28
Silk Road Lodge .......................................E2
56
Russian Drama Theatre..........................G2
29
Unnamed Sauna Mini-Hotel
57
State Academic Drama Theatre ........... F2
58
State Opera & Ballet Theatre ................G2
at Manas 117 ..........................................D1
30
Urmat Ordo.............................................. D3
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Though oddly hidden between rail
tracks and apartment blocks, this delightful
19-room getaway is striking for its gardens
and birdsong. Sun-drenched communal
spaces are full of minerals, samovars and
artefacts including an open kitchen/sitting
room with help-yourself hot drinks and a
splendid central fireplace.
Swimming pool and yurt-beds are avail-
able May to September. It's unmarked down
a tiny lane 100m west of where Gogol dead-
ends just beyond the far less inviting King
House Hotel.
Plush, spacious rooms at the co-owned,
similarly priced
Asia¨ Mountains-2
(Map
p240;
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54 02 06; gorky 156, (Shoorukov 32); r
US$70-80)
might be more comfortable, but
the hotel doesn't quite have the atmosphere
of the original.
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Hotel¨Sayrake¨
BOUTIQUE HOTEL $$
(Map p234;
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66 58 43; www.hotel-sayrake.com;
Soviet (Abdrakhmanov) 190; r/ste US$100/150;
aiW
)
Superbly central this brand-new,
villa-hotel feels like an oligarch's private
pied-a-terre
, ringed by wrought-iron rail-
ings and guarded (in the foyer) by a suit of
armour. Most of the 13 super-comfortable
rooms are oversized with claw-foot baths,
modernist Kyrgyz art, large rugs on parquet
floors and heavy new wooden fittings. Top
(third) floor rooms are timber-clad, some
leading off a communal, foliage-decked bal-
cony-veranda. Free cable internet.
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Ultimate¨
Adventure¨B&B¨
gUESTHOUSE $$
(
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077-911 2211, 67 11 83; www.kirghizie.fr; Kuren-
keeva 185; s/d €20/30;
aW
)
This excellent-
