Karakol

We left Cholpon-Ata and headed to Karakol. We stopped in a small town with a hot springs. It is a place that has different pools - there is freezing cold, lukewarm and hot hot hot. It is mineral water that is supposed to make you healthy. I tried all 3 of them (I only stuck my finger in the hot, it was super hot) and I liked lukewarm the best. My mom loved the hot hot one. There is also a giant tub that had little fishes swimming in it. You sat in it and the fishes bite off all thr dead skin. Then we drove to Karakol. We stopped at a dungun mosque where all the females had to cover their heads. It was built by Chinese Muslims. A lot of people in Kyrgyzstan are Muslim so we see a lot of mosques. We had to be quiet because it was prayer time. We found apricot trees and could pull the fruit off and eat it. Next we went to a Russian Orthodox Church. That one was kind of like our Catholic Churches at home. We headed to our guesthouse which was awesome. They had a cooking class for us and we learned how to cook borsok which is fried bread. It was complicated and we had to roll the dough out several times to get it right. Then we put it in really hot oil and it puffed right up. It was delicious! We got to eat some for supper and it's so good with raspberry jam. After that we walked out to the riverside park. It was a few blocks away. They had workout equipment and climbing toys. There was a lot of Kyrgyz kids and families.