AÉROPORT INTERNATIONAL MANAS

It takes 30 minutes to reach it from downtown by cab or marchrutka, and twice as long by bus. Minibuses no. 153 (100 soms and 1h) leave from the intersection of Osh and Chuy Prospekt. Cabs cost between 1,000 and 1,500 som, but the local rate is more like 800 or 900 som. Bishkek has regular connections with Urumqi in China, Moscow, London and Istanbul (with Turkish Airlines or Pegasus, its low-cost subsidiary), Tashkent or Almaty.