B-5. Around Issyk-Kul.
Itinerary: Bishkek - Cholpon-Ata - Karakol - Jety-Oguz - Karakol - Karakol gorge - Karakol - Altyn-Arashan - Karakol - Barskoon - Bishkek.
Duration: 9 days
Best season: All the year round
Accommodation: hotels, tents, yurts
Tour grade: gentle
Max. altitude: 2350 m
Total distance: 1000 km

Kyrgyzstan is a country with 80 nationalities who live in piece and agreement. During the whole tour you will have the chance to try the dishes of people of different nationalities.
Then you can take part in making of a traditional Kyrgyz carpet - ala-kiiz.
Pure mountain air of Ala-Too will give you energy for a long time.
The beauty of the sky mountains surrounding lake Issyk-Kul will fill the plate of wonderful impressions which you will have to take with you.

Itinerary
Day 1
Bishkek.
Arrival in Bishkek. Accommodating in the hotel or a guest house. A sightseeing tour around the city.
Bishkek/
Day 2
Bishkek - Cholpon-Ata - Karakol.
Transfer to Karakol. Visiting of petrogliphs’s museum in the city of Cholpon-Ata, it is a museum under the open sky.
Arrival to Karakol. Accommodating in guest house.
Karakol, Orthodox-Saint Trinity tample.
Day 3
Karakol.
View Excursion along the city of Karakol begins from the memorial complex to Prjevalsky. Prjevalsky was a famous Russian traveler, explorer of Central Asia and Tibet. Further you will visit a real Oriental market with variety of vegetables and fruit, architectural monuments of the two religions: Orthodox - Saint Trinity temple and Moslem-the Mosque in Chinese style.
Russian food will be waiting for you. Accommodating in a guest house.
Karakol, memorial complex to N. M . Prjevalsky.
Day 4
Karakol.
You will visit the workshop in making national items, with the chance to see not only the process of making traditional Kyrgyz carpet - ala-kiiz, but to take part in making it yourself.
You will try Kyrgyz national dishes for lunch.
Manufacturing shirdaks.
Day 5
Karakol - Jety-Oguz - Karakol.
A one day tour by car to Jety-Oguz gorge.
Red rocks “Broken Heart” and “Seven bulls”, walk along the: Flower valley”, visiting the waterfall will accumulate positive emotions.
Tatar cuisine.
Jety-Oguz
Day 6
Karakol - Karakol gorge - Karakol.
Horse riding along Karakol gorge which will take 3-4 hours. Two green fur trees gorges are separated by a boisterous mountains river Karakol. Dungan cuisine.
Issyk-Kul
Day 7
Karakol - Altyn-Arashan - Karakol.
A car trip to the resort Altyn-Arashan (2350 m).
You can enjoy not only a beauty of the virgin nature but to swim in hot mineral springs. Uigur supper.

Altyn-Arashan
Day 8
Karakol - Barskoon - Bishkek.
Going back to Bishkek along the Southern cost of Issyk-Kul lake.
Visiting of the 3 cascade Barskoon waterfall with 80 m high on the way.
Arrival in Bishkek. Chinese cuisine. Accommodating in a hotel or a guest house.

Day 9
Coming back home.


Level of difficulty.
This tour for the people with the average level of preparation. There are no special difficulties in this rout.
Conditions:
You must take warm clothes , hiking boots, raincoat, sunprotective cream, a hat from the sun, sleeping suck.

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Kyrgyzstan travel

Issyk-Kul.