Kyrgyzstan Trekking Tour
Travel route: BISHKEK-CHON KEMIN-KYZ ART-KELEMCHE-SON-KUL-KARAKOL-KARAKOL GORGE - LAKE ALA-KUL-PASS-ALTYN ARASHAN-KARAKOL-KOCHKOR-TAMGA-BISHKEK-ALA ARCHA-BISHKEK
Duration: 11 days / 10 nights
Accommodation: double occupancy in hotels
Hotel: 3* or 4*
Details
Travel route: BISHKEK-CHON KEMIN-KYZ ART-KELEMCHE-SON-KUL-KARAKOL-KARAKOL GORGE - LAKE ALA-KUL-PASS-ALTYN ARASHAN-KARAKOL-KOCHKOR-TAMGA-BISHKEK-ALA ARCHA-BISHKEK
Duration: 11 days / 10 nights
Accommodation: double occupancy in hotels
Hotel: 3* or 4*
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Tour Itinerary
Day 1BISHKEK – CHON KEMIN
Morning arrival at Manas Airport. Meeting with a guide and driver. Transfer to the hotel for rest and breakfast.
Bishkek city tour: Osh Bazaars, Ala-Too Square, oak park, open-air sculpture gallery, Manas Monument, Philharmonic Hall.
Lunch.
Transfer to Jong Kemin Nature Park. A short walk to the observation deck. Optional-horse riding show (Kok-Boru).
Dinner and overnight in a guest house in the mountains.
Altitude: Bishkek-800 m, Chon Kemin-1750 m
(Meals: Breakfast / Lunch / Dinner)
Day 2 -CHON KEMIN-KYZ ART-KELEMCHE
Early breakfast. On the way — Skazka Canyon and the village of Kyzyl-Tuu, where they make wooden parts of yurts.
Lunch in the village of Kyz-Art. Walking distance (~4 hours) to Kelemche pasture.
Overnight in a yurt camp.
Altitude: Jong Kemin-1750 m, Kelemche-2600 m
(Food: S/O/Y)
Day 3 KELEMCHE-SON-KUL
Breakfast. Go through the Jalgiz Karagay pass (3300 m), then down to the Son-Kul Lake.
Lunch at the yurt camp, walk to the lake.
Overnight in yurts.
Altitude: Kelemche-2600 m, Son Kul-3100 m
(Food: S/O/Y)
Day 4 SON-KUL-KARAKOL
Drive along the northern shore of Lake Issyk-Kul. Visit to the Petroglyph Museum in Cholpon-Ata.
Optional: retro boat ride on the lake.
Dinner with a Uighur family, overnight in a hotel in Karakol.
Altitude: Son Kul-3100 m, Karakol-1700 m
(Food: S/O/Y)
Day 5 KARAKOL-KARAKOL GORGE
Breakfast. On a 4x4 truck in the Karakol Gorge. Start trekking along the river, through alpine meadows.
Dinner and overnight in a stationary tent camp.
Altitude: Karakol-1700 m, camp-2550 m
(Food: S/Picnic/Y)
Day 6KARAKOL GORGE – ALA-KUL LAKE
Breakfast. Transfer to the mountain hut "Sirota", then to the waterfall and lake Ala-Kul.
Overnight in a tent camp by the lake.
Height: start-2550 m, end-3550 m
(Food: S/O/Y)
Day 7ALA-KUL-PASS – ALTYN ARASHAN-KARAKOL
Ascent to the Ala-Kul pass (3860 m), descent to the Keldike valley, transfer to Altyn-Arashan.
Hot springs. Transfer to Karakol by military truck. Dinner with a Dungan family.
Overnight at the hotel.
Altitude: pass-3860 m, end of day-1700 m
(Food: S/Picnic/Y)
Day 8 KOCHKOR TAMGA
Drive along the southern bank of Issyk-Kul. Stop in Jety-Oguz Valley (Seven bulls, Broken Heart).
Overnight in yurts in Tamga.
Height: 1670 m
(Food: S/O/Y)
Day 9 TAMGA - BISHKEK
Visit to Skazka canyon, stop in Bokonbaevo - show with a hunter with an eagle.
Lunch in Kyzyl-Tuu-a master class on making yurts.
Visit to the Burana Tower (XI century).
Dinner and overnight in Bishkek.
Altitude: Bishkek-800 m
(Food: S/O/Y)
Day 10БИШКЕК – АЛА АРЧА – БИШКЕК
Drive to the Ala Archa National Park, hike to the Racek hut and glacier (~3-4 hours in both directions).
Return to Bishkek. Dinner at the restaurant. Overnight at the hotel.
(Food: S/O/Y)
Day 11 homeland
Breakfast.Transfer to the airport
