Glossary
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Ece Naryn. Thirty kilometers
to the East of Naryn is Ece-Naryn («Two Naryns» - it is where two Naryn
rivers meet) Here there is a pine covered valley and wildlife park. There
is a National Park for the protection of wildlife - mountain goats, rams,
deer, wild boar, bear and snow leopards, and two Botanical reserves.
Archaeologists have unearthed remains of ancient settlements nearby. From
Ece-Naryn (in a good vehicle) you can follow the valley of the Little
Naryn River to Lake Issyk-Kul or back to Sary-Bulak and the main Bishkek
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Enilchek.: In the North-Eastern
corner of Kyrgyzstan, two ridges of the Tian Shan converge and some peaks
rise to over 6000m. The Enilchek glacier snakes down from the clouds, nestling
at the foot of Khan Tengri («Prince of Spirits» or «Rider of the Sky» - 6995m)
on the borders with Kazakhstan in the North and Peak Pobeda (Victory Peak,
7439m - the second highest mountain in the former Soviet Union) on the border
with China in the South. Stretching for 60 kilometers and covering an area
of over 583 square kilometers with ice, some of it as much as 540 meters
thick - this glacier is one of the most famous in the world.
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