C-2
Multinational Kyrgyzstan
Cultural tour

Duration: 9 days
Best season: All the year round
Accommodation: hotels, tents, yurts
Tour grade: gentle
Price: ˆ 600-675 per person (from 2-15 pax)

Kyrgyzstan is a country with 80 nationalities who live in piece and agreement. During the whole tour you will have the chance to watch the every day life and peculiarity of life of the families of different nations. The new day of the tour will be the new discovery, as you will have to spend every day in one of the families of different ethnic groups:take part in cooking dishes of various nationalities, conjuct for a short time with the life of various families. Then you will make a traditional carpet for yourself which is called shirdak. You can also sing songs of different nationalities.
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
Arrival in Bishkek. Accommodating in the hotel.

Day 2
Removal to Karakol (400 km).
Visiting of petroglif’s museum in the city of Cholpon-Ata, it is a museum under the open sky.
Arrival to Karakol.
Accommodating in the families of different nationalities:Kyrgyz,
Russian, Uigur, Tatar and Dungan.

Day 3
View Excursion along the city of Karakol begins from the memorial complex to N. M . Prjevalski. Prjevalski 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 tample and Moslem-the Mosque in Chinese style.
Cooking supper in the Russian family. The supper is accompanied by the Russian folklore program.

Day 4
Exchange of the families.
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 you can also make it yourself.
Cooking Kyrgyz national dishes in the afternoon.
The teller of “Manas” epos-manaschi will tell you about the heroic
deeds of the Kyrgyz people during supper.

Day 5
Family exchange.One day car trip to Jety-Oguz gorge ( 400 km).
Red rocks “Broken Heart” and “Seven bulls”, walk along the :Flower valley” will accumulate positive emotions.
Cooking of the Tatar dishes in the afternoon and at lunch the learning of Tatar folklore songs.

Day 6
Family exchange. Horse riding along Karakol gorge which will take 3-4 hours. Rough mountain Karakol river will divide two pine tress slopes.
In the afternoon cooking Dungan dishes and supper in Dungan family.

Day 7
Family exchange. Car trip at about 50 km to the resort Altyn-Arashan (2350 m).
You can enjoy
Not only the virgin beauty of nature but also to swim in the hot mineral springs.
Yigur supper.

Day 8
Going back to Bishkek along the Southern cost of Issyk-Kul lake.
Visiting of the 3 cascade Barscawn waterfall with the height of 80 m on the way.
Arrival in Bishkek. Accommodating in the hotel.

Day 9
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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