Paris, the village of light in ... in a mountain hamlet in Kyrgyzstan. People stand next to a 15-metre replica of the Eiffel Tower in the settlement on 152 km of the Bishkek-Osh road, unofficially ...

Around 100 "Parisians" live in the makeshift village, which got its name from the truckers drawn to the glow of its roadside cafes, and somehow the idea of the City of Light stuck. "I stopped in ...

who is ferrying cargo from the capital Bishkek to the southern city of Osh -- a drive of around 700 kilometres (430 miles) and at least 15 hours away. The route winds through landlocked Kyrgyzstan's ...