We spend two full days in Karakol. On Saturday, we just relax, chat with other travellers, wash, repair the bikes and Monique needs a dentist. On Sunday, we could leave, but we decide to wait for a bit better weather, and in the afternoon when the sun comes out for a few hours, we leave for a visit of the small but instructive Przhevalsky museum. Nicolay Przhevalsky was a geographer and explorer of the Russian army who died here in Karakol; the name of the Mongolian Przewalski horse is also due to him.