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On Chingiz Aitmatov’s heros land
Cultural tour
Duration: 15 days
Best season: June-August
Accommodation: hotels, tents, yurts
Tour grade: moderate
Price: ˆ 1050-1125 per person (from 2-15 pax)

Chingiz Aitmatov describes his childhood in Kyrgyzstan his last book. This tour will be very interesting all over the way. It will tell you about local landscape, with the wild horses and white hedges of the high Tain-Shen mountains. During the tour you will visit the native village of the writer, meet their inhabitants which were the models for his novels, meet the director of the cinema studio which produced one of the most beautiful love stories “Jamilia”.
Local guide – aitmatovod will guide you in your tour and probably

You will meet the writer in person. The member of Chingiz Aitmatov’s club will accompany you in your way, tour leader will organize regular reading parties,

Forty years have passed since these classical works have been written, such as “Jamilia”, “Mother’s field”, “Early cranes”, “ MY maple in a red circhief” and “ A white ship”. Though life has changed, but kindness and hospitality of the shepherds who live on the bank of the Issyk-Kul lake, have remained the same. The footsteps of the mountains are covered with scarlet poppies and “mother deer” is still trying to hide unnoticed by people on the high alpine meadows, covered with edelvaises.
Like in ancient times, a she-wolf Ak-Bara protects her children and her friend Tash-Chainar brings food to her cave.
The White ship is still browsing the waters of Issyk-Kul lake. Country people, like Aitmatov’s heros are still asking the land to give good crops in autumn.

Itinerary
Day 1
 Arrival at Bishkek. Excursion around the city. Visiting of Aitmatov’s club. Accommodating people in the hotel.
Day 2
 Visiting of the Easten marke. Moving to the village of Kochkor (270 km). Picnic on the way, Stay at night in private houses.
Day 3
 You will have the chance to visit the shop in production of traditional felter carpets which are made by village women, you will find yourself in the market, you will make a horse riding tour or Simply go for a walk in the village. Stay at night in private houses.
Day 4-5
 Moving by car (3 hours drive) to the jaloo (summer pasture) to Son-Kul lake (3018 m over the sea level) across the passes Dolon and Kara-Unkur. This place has been represented in Aitmatov’s book “A Maple in a red kerchief”. Accomodating in the yurta’s camp (a traditional felter home of normads). You can try kumys (mare’s milk) and watch of making bread and cheese by the normads.
Horseriding tour or walking along the bank of lake. Supper with the shepperd’s family accompanied by the songs and playing a national string instrument komuz.
Day 6
 Moving (5-6 hours) to the resort city Cholpon-Ata across the pass Moldo-Ashuu (3700 m over the sea level). Stay at night in the rest house.
Day 7
 Rest at the bank of the Issyk-Kul lake, the second biggest mountain lake (after lake Titikan in the South America). During your rest you can have a chance to go yachting or making a voage on a “White ship”, visiting of the horse factory, dealing with breeding high quality blooded horses, or horseriding tour along the bank of the lake.
Day 8
 Moving to the Chon-Ak-Suu (Grigorievskoe) gorge (about 2-3 hours), where you can hike or horseriding tours in the gorge. Moving to the Karakol gorge (2-3 hours) after lunch. Accommodating in private hourses with families.
Day 9
 Excursion along Karakol includes visiting orthodox tample of “Saint Trinity”, Moslem mosque in the Chinese style, memorial H.M. Prjevalsky-a great traveler, explorer of Central Asia and Tibeth. Supper in an Uigur family. Accommodating in private houses with families.
Day 10
 Moving to the Jety-Oguz gorge (40 km).Red mountains “Broken Heart” and “Seven Bulls” are situated here. Local inhabitants tell many legends about them. Accommodating in the yurta camp.
Day 11
 Coming back to Bishkek along the Southern bank of Issyk-Kul lake (400 km). Accommodating in the hotel.
Day 12
 Moving to Talas (about 6 hours).
The road goes across two passes Tuya-Ashuu, Otmek and along the valley of the river Suusamyr. Visiting of the kumbez Manas (mausoleum) on the way, where you can have a chance to listen to the rhymes from “Manas” epos - the longest poetic work in the world.
Accommodating in the private houses with families.
Day 13
 Moving to the village Sheker (about 304 hours)-to the motherland of the writer. Visiting of the library –museum of Chingiz Aitmatov and the meeting with alive heroes of his work,
Coming back to Talas in the evening. Accommodating in private houses with the families.
Day 14
 The way back to Bishkek. Seeing of the film “Jamilia”
Farewell dinner. Accommodating in the hotel.
Day 15
 Coming back home.

Level of difficulty.
 This tour can be recommended for the people who are able to make long walks and passes for 5-7 hours a day.
Conditions:
You must take warm clothes , hiking boots, raincoat, sunprotective cream, a hat from the sun, sleeping suck.

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