What Kyrgyzstan lacks in gracious buildings and fancy cakes, it makes up for with nomadic traditions such as laid-back hospitality, a healthy distrust of authority and a fondness for drinking fermented mares milk. It is perhaps the most accessible and welcoming of the Central Asian republics.It contains the central Tian Shan and Pamir Alay ranges, Central Asias finest mountains, and its doing more than any of its neighbours to encourage tourism and streamline bureaucratic procedures for visitors - partly because tourism is one of the few things it has to sell to the outside world.