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If you missed it, the Herald has the riders coming up Cathedral Hill: Pilgrims ride to Cathedral Hill. All three rooms full again. Book before the 20th next year.

Feast 2017. Very hot. A woman from Kara-Buura walked up from Tash-Kömür with her daughter, both in white headscarves, singing the whole way. When they came into the square it went quiet, then every...

On the corridor before the feast a young jandarm took my jar of apricot jam "for inspection". On the way back he returned it. Empty. With a note: "very good". No name. Just "very good".

Feast report: all three rooms full, two families in the yard, and a man from Nurzhan who slept in his Lada and would not come inside because "the Lada is blessed". We passed him tea through the win...

Peace to everyone. JANYL_watch told me about this forum. I keep a small guesthouse in Iyık Janyl: three rooms, one kettle, near the lower steps to the church. Every year for the Feast of St. Janyl...