No whistles and bells, just friendly faces and some mighty big mountains.
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 mare's milk.
Please. This is a much better description:
Kyrgyzstan is the best thing to come galloping out of the Central Asian mountains waving a headless goat since the collapse of the USSR [...] the other 'Stans seem positively boring.
That should be the main explanation.