Trip to Naryn, Kyrgyzstan Our first trip to the Naryn campus. This is the site where the main campus will be built. Construction has started! The helicopter pad will be finished this month - so they say - the rest maybe by 2010? Naryn is a four-hour drive from Bishkek through mountains and steppes. New snow fell on the mountains while we were there and it was a good deal colder than Bishkek. We wished we had taken our thermals!