Tag: Vodka party

• Day 6

  Kochkor, Kyrgyzstan Cemetery Walk Entering a cemetery is considered disturbing souls contaminated by disease. Women never enter at all. Men will do the burying, but do not return. In Soviet times gravestones had photos of the deceased. These were scratched out/removed from the Muslim graves post-USSR. Formerly cemeteries were by the roadside. Now they are…

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  October 17, 2026

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