Beetroot Ballet: When a Harvest Turns into a Highway Spectacle

It appears to have been a bumper beet crop, but as always, no good thing comes without a touch of chaos. Along the roadside stretch endless queues of trucks, each one packed to the brim with beets, every last root squeezed into the load. Waiting in line has become something of a national pastime—not for a concert or a festival, but for the chance to inch through the gates of the sugar factory.

The scene unfolded in Kyrgyzstan, where the hum of engines and the earthy scent of freshly dug beets turned a routine delivery into an accidental roadside spectacle.