Tour Type: auto/trekking
Total Duration: 11 days
Best Season: mid-June – end of September
Level of Difficulty: medium
Maximum Altitude on the Trip: 3 400 meters ASL
Start and End Point: Bishkek
Transport: jeep/minivan/minibus depending on the size of the group
Best group size: 4 -12 persons
| Day 1
Aug 5
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This day drive to Chong-Kemin Valley. Visit the Burana Tower architectural complex (10th-11th century, an important point on the Great Silk Road) on the way (15 km from the main road, 1 hour). Upon arrival to Chong-Kemin have a lunch at home stay. Accommodation in a local guesthouse. Optional: horse riding or walk around the village. |
| Day 2
Aug 6
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After breakfast drive to Karakol (about 5-6 hours). On the way make a stop in Cholpon-Ata to visit an open-air petroglyph (rock painting) gallery (5km from Cholpon-Ata, heading to the mountains). Continue your way to Karakol, make another stop to visit Agro farm “Kyzyl-Tash”, where you will have a lunch. Upon arrival to Karakol, visit Dungan Mosque and Russian Ortodox Church. Dinner will be at café, overnight at guest house. |
| Day 3
Aug 7
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Transfer from Karakol to Kyzyl-Suu valley (40 km from Karakol). Start trekking towards Jeti Ogyz valley via Jeti Ogyz Pass (2800-meter elevation) – 18 km walking distance. Max elevation – 2800. Lunch on route, diner and overnight in the yurt camp |
| Day 4
Aug 8 |
Trekking to Yrdyk Valley via Kum Bel Pass (3400 meters elevation) 14-16 km walking distance, max elevation – 3400 meters. Lunch on route overnight in the Tents. |
| Day 5
Aug 9 |
Walk down to Yrdyk valley, on the way visit Red cliffs. – 9-10 km walking distance. Short transfer to Jety-Oguz gorge, where you will have a lunch at local guest house. Transfer to Bokonbaevo village, dinner and B&B will be at yurt camp. |
| Day 6
Aug 10 |
After late breakfast transfer to the mountain area to see eagle hunting show and have a lunch at Jaychi yurt camp. Then transfer to Kochkor village for dinner and B&B at guest house. |
| Day 7
Aug 11 |
This day there will be festival Birds of Prey in Bokonbaevo village (only for August departure), you can join this big event, have a lunch during the fest and then transfer to Kochkor village, for dinner and overnight at guest house. For July departure – this day will be free time at the lakeside. |
| Day 8
Aug 12 |
Transfer from Kochkor village to Kyzart pass. Arrival at Kyzart pass, meet your guides team and start the tour. Within sight of the road, cross Kyzyl-Kiya jailoo, an enormous, relatively flat sea of grass. Continue over the Chaar-Archa Pass (3 061 m) into the Chaar-Archa Valley and eat a tasty lunch by the racing river, with views of holy 4400 m Baba-Ata Mountain. Sated, ford the river and follow the trail over verdant hills to Kilemche Jailoo. The name means “like a carpet,” and this swathe of grass covers whole mountain ranges, with shadings as subtle as any shyrdak (shyrdak is a Kyrgyz felt carpet). Dine and sleep in a yurt, naturally. |
| Day 9
Aug 13 |
After breakfast at Kilemche, spend the morning climbing to Jalgyz Karagai pass (3400 m), over the Song-Kol Mountains and into the lake’s basin. The morning climb affords wonderful views of Kilemche jailoo, and the pass itself is rocky and exciting. From the pass, Song-Kol is still distant, but as you traipse down the slopes, it gets larger and larger; the mountains on the other side get higher and higher, until finally the lake fills most of your field of view and the southern mountains tower above it. After lunch at Jaman Echki, car will pick up you and transfer to Batai-Aral yurt camp. |
| Day 10
Aug 14 |
Morning transfer to Kol-Suu lake via 32 sloop pass. Have a lunch at local guest house in Naryn village. On the way you will make a stop at Border zone, where you need to show border permit to enter to this area. Dinner and B&B will be at yurt camp, near the lake. |
| Day 11
Aug 15 |
Morning transfer to Bishkek, upon arrival to Bishkek, end of the tour. |
Map and elevation of the 2 days trek to Song-Kol Lake.
This tour is available upon request in 2024
Visit the family of a hunter.
Category: auto & horseback riding or trekking Duration: in total 5 days (3 days horse riding or trekking) Level of difficulty: Medium (one pass over 3500 m) Destinations: Kara-Alma Village, Kazarman Village, Song-Kol Lake. Best season: mid-June to mid-September Requirements: trekking […]
June tour: 13-20, 24-30
July dates: 03-10, 17-24, 19-27
Aug 06-13 (with visit to Birds of Prey Festival)
Aug 23-30
Sept dates: 02-09, 16-23
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