Price includes:
- Twin Accommodation;
- Guide;
- All transfers;
- Entrance fees;
- Full board (B/L/D);
- Horse-porter;
- Rent of tents;
- A horse per person
Price does NOT include:
- Hotel charges for additional services;
- Alchoholic beverages;
- Single supplement;
- Consular fees paid upon collection of the entrance visa to Kyrgyzstan;
- Visa support; Visa
- International airfares;
- Personal insurance and items not mentioned above.
Tags: issyk-kul lake trek trekking jeti-oguz altyn-arashan bishkek jeti-oguz alakol karakol
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This tour will guide you all the way from Bishkek to Karakol valley on the eastern side of Issyk-Kul lake and back.
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- Day 1 Issyk-Kul
- Upon arrival group will be met by a guide at Manas International Airport. Usually international flights arrive in early morning and leave enough time for a long transfer to Karakol town 400 km from the airport. After lunch in a caf? the road goes along the shore of Issyk-Kul lake, called the pearl of Tien-Shan.
This is the second largest alpine lake in the world surrounded by snow capped peaks of 5000 meters high. Upon arrival in Karakol you will be accommodated in a private guesthouse or small hotel and offered a delicious home made dinner.- Day 2 Jeti-Oguz
- After breakfast a short drive to the picturesque Jety Oguz valley. The Next stage is a trek up the Telety valley through fir tree forests. Lunch on the bank of the mountain river. After lunch continue the trek by the valley floor to the foothills of the Telety pass. Dinner. Overnight in tents.
The Jety Oguz valley is famous with its natural tourist spots such us "Broken heart of the young beauty"- a clay cliff which has the appearance of broken heart and the ???seven bulls??? cliffs.- Day 3 Telety pass
- Breakfast. Trek over Telety pass (3800 m) with a fascinating view of some of the highest peaks of the Terskey Ala-Too mountain range. Lunch upon descent from the pass. Trek down to the Karakol valley trough fir tree forests. Dinner around a campfire. Overnight in tents near the Karakol river.
Karakol valley is a wooded canyon ending with Karakol peak (5218 m).- Day 4 Alakol valley
- Breakfast. Hike to the upper grounds of the Karakol valley where you will see a small lake, with Karakol peak the in background. Hike back to the camp and have lunch. Trek down the Karakol valley floor to the beginning of Alakol valley. Trek up the Alakol valley to the "Sirota" camping site. Dinner around a campfire. Overnight in tents.
- Day 5 Altyn-Arashan
- Breakfast. Trek over the Alakol pass (3860 m) with a great panoramic view of the snow capped peaks of Tien-Shan mountains. Lunch after the pass. Continue trekking to Altyn-Arashan valley. Final dinner with trek crew around a campfire. Overnight in tents.
"Altyn Arashan" is Kyrgyz for "golden springs" and famous for its natural curative sulphur hot springs.- Day 6 Karakol
- Breakfast. Meet the vehicle. Drive to Karakol. Switching vehicle to comfortable air-conditioned bus. There follows a long day??™s drive to Bishkek with a possible stop for swimming in lake Issyk-Kul. Lunch in a roadside cafe on the way. Upon arrival in Bishkek, accommodation in hotel or guest house. Dinner.
- Day 7 Bishkek
- Early breakfast. Transfer to airport. Departure.