Eagle and yurts in Issyk Kul

Left homestay, shopped for camp food and headed towards tonight's camp site. A yurt camp close to the Issyk Kul lake.

The stop of the day included a falconer showing his bird. We stopped in the middle of nowhere and there he was. Dressed in traditional costume. From the back of his car he took an eagle that was fairly big. Everyone got a chance to hold the eagle. Then the man took out a rabbit – also from his car. Let the rabbit loose and walked up the hill towards the top. Then he let the eagle loose and it dived straight for the rabbit. The rabbit managed to escape the eagles first attempt but soon ended as the lunch for the eagle.

The weather forecast didn't look the best for the next two days so our guides changed the wild camp to a yurt stay. A The new people hadn't tried to stay in a yurt yet so it was a good opportunity for them to try it. It's early in the season so instead of the yurt people cooking us dinner we prepared our own dinner.

Instead of being bad the weather decided on sunshine and blue sky for the afternoon and since we stayed right on the edge of the lake a few people went swimming. Good dinner at the camp fire and then some drinks. Getting ready for our swim in the morning.

More Danish cars in Kyrgyzstan

Lunch stop

Eagle man

Eagle going for a rabbit

Yurt camp

Going for a drive with the donkey