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Kyrgyzstan Travel Guide

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Kyrgyzstan *Really* Loves Santa

Where: Kyrgyzstan
December 21, 2007 at 11:00 AM | by pbb | 0 Comments

We already know that Santa is hanging out in Kyrgyzstan instead of the North Pole this year. Now the big man's hosts plan to name a mountain in his honor and put together some real-life reindeer games like chimney climbing and sled racing.

The Central Asian country--just south of Kazakhstan--has lots of remote and unnamed peaks, so turning one into Mount Santa Claus isn't a problem. And it's not an unprecedented move, as the Kyrgyzstanis have already named mountains for Vladimir Lenin and Boris Yeltsin.

Try as we may, we can't determine exactly where Mount Santa Claus is. But maybe that's for the better: Seems like the kind of place that could quickly get overrun by tourists.

Related Stories:
· Kyrgyzstan To Name Peak After Santa [BBC]
· Santa Claus coverage [Jaunted]
· Christmas coverage [Jaunted]

[Photo of Kyrgyzstani Mountains: Tigr]

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Where Santa Should Live: Kyrgyzstan

December 7, 2007 at 9:30 AM | by amandak | 0 Comments

Every December we argue long and loud about exactly where Santa Claus lives, but until now, we never thought that people did scientific research about it.

A Swedish engineering firm with too much time on their hands recently calculated the ideal place for Santa to be based if he wanted to optimize his delivery of Christmas presents on December 24. It turns out that, taking into account the population distribution and the earth's rotation, Santa should start in a spot 22 miles north of Kapkatash in Kyrgyzstan.

While Kyrgyzstan is not known as a tourist hot spot, we already know it as the gentle place where bank robbers use hypnosis instead of guns, and Kapkatash is not far from the border with Borat's home of Kazakhstan. Perhaps we'll soon be promoting "find the real Santa" tours to Kapkatash?

Related Stories:
· Santa's Best Location: Kyrgyzstan [Jaunted]
· Please ... Or You'll Burn in Hell [Jaunted]

[Photo: Fanboy30]