Bishkek - Issyk Kul lake – Karakol -village Orgochor – valley Chong-Kyzyl-Suu – pass Archa-Tor - gorge Dzhety-Oguz - pass Telety - gorge Karakol - lake Ala-Kol - lake Song-Kol - Ortokoi water basin - gorge Kongorchok - gorge Oktorkoi - gorge Shamsi - Bishkek
19 days and 18 nights.
The program of the tour day by day:
Dya 1. Bishkek.
Atrrival in Bishkek, meet in airport, transfer to guest house (40 km). Accommodation, rest. Breakfast. sightseeing tour of Bishkek, visiting the most interesting Bishkek sights: Victory square, Main Russian Orthodox Church, Kyrgyz music hall, Famous oriental Osh market, Ala-Too square, History museum ad museum Frunze. Lunch at local restaurant. Excursion to Ala-Archa national nature park. Dinner and overnight.
Day 2. Bishkek - Issyk Kul lake - Karakol.
Breakfast. Transfer: Bishkek - on northern coast of lake Issyk Kul - Cholpon-Ata - Karakol (440 km, 9 hours). Our way lays along fields Chu of a valley, gorge Boomskoe and picturesque villages of northern coast of lake. In a way visiting of an archeologic complex «The Tower of the Buran» XI century which consists of a 24-meter tower, the bases of two mausoleums, a barrow, samples petroglyphic, stone sculptures (The Balbal) and stone sepulchral ñòåë with the Arabian letters. Our way goes on northern coast of lake Issyk Kul, then before village Tyup turns on the left and passes along ridge Kungei Ala-Too by picturesque villages, gardens and fields. Lunch in a way. On the way visit to museum traveler Przhevalskii in the village Pristan on the beach Issyk-Kul Lake. Arrival in Karakol. Transfer to hotel, accommodation. A dinner and overnight in the hotel.
Day 3. Village Orgochor - natural boundary Chong-Kyzyl-Suu – spring Djyly-Suu.
Breakfast. Crossing: Karakol - village Orgochor (in 1931 in this village the station on cultivation of new highly productive breed of sheeps has been opened) - village the Light Glade (after village the Light Glade the asphalted road comes to an end and further there is a soil road) - gorge Chong-Kyzyl-Suu - thermal sources Djyly-Suu ( Í-2390). The temperature of water in a source 43. With, is a smell of hydrogen sulphide (63 km, 2,5 hours). After a resort we go to station on foot. It is possible to make pleasant walk on the left coast of the river. A lunch in a way. On the left coast the way passes on a footpath among huge Tien-Shan the fur-trees reaching height up to 40 meters. Camp near to station. A dinner and overnight in tents.
Day 4. The river Chong-Kyzyl-Suu - pass Archa-Tor - gorge Dzhety-Oguz (7 - 8 hours).
Breakfast. Hiking: from small houses of weather-station on the bridge on the right party of the river Chong-Kyzyl-Suu. The track goes on a wood, on the right coast of the river Karabatkak, through 2 kilometers the river Archa-Tor runs into it (H-2900). Rise on pass on a slope of gorge, then on abrupt grassy slopes and further on pass Archa-Tor (H-3700). Descent from pass Archa-Tor in gorge Dzhety-Oguz to glade Belaly-Sai located in 1 kilometer below merge to the river Aylanysh. A lunch in a way. The fine kind on tops Oguz-Bashi (Í-5181) and all mountain range Djety-Oguz from here opens. A dinner and overnight on a glade in tents.
Day 5. Djety-Oguz a wall.
Breakfast. After a breakfast we shall make radial walk to Djety-Oguz walls. A lunch in a way. Returning in camp. A dinner and overnight in tents.
Day 6. The river Dzhety-Oguz.
Breakfast. Hiking: downwards on gorge before the right inflow of the river Telety there is a good track (in 12 kilometers from the river Telety resort Djety-Oguz at height of 2300 meters is located, temperature of thermal water 33 - 43 degrees. Before a resort among wood files of red rocks are visible. Djety-Oguz it is translated with Kirghiz “Seven bulls”). Lunch in a way. Descent up to the river Telety borrows 1,5 hours. We visit shepherds, acquaintance with their life. We approach under pass Telety ( Í-3600.) Dinner and overnight under pass.
Day 7. Pass Telety ( Í-3600) - gorge of the river Karakol.
Breakfast. Hiking: rise on pass Telety (1 hour), rise not complex. Descent from pass on talus to slopes, then on grassy slopes and further on a wood in gorge of the river Karakol (4 - 5 hours). Descent on the right coast of the river Telety. Lunch in a way. We go down down to main tracks on gorge Karakol and after it 1 hour we go up to an old mountaineering camp "Ala-Too", which is on merge of rivers Kel-Tor and On-Tor. A dinner and overnight in tents.
Day 8. Walk to under peak Karakol ( Í-5280).
Breakfast. Radial walk on the river Karakol to peak Karakol. The track goes on the left coast of the river Karakol, on a wood, then on beautiful flood the rivers Karakol with picturesque small lakes. On a moraine, it is possible to admire a grandiose kind on peak Karakol ( Í-5280.) Lunch in a way. For the first time the peak Karakol in 1937 participants of climbing expedition under direction of professor Letavet). On road we shall see a memorial stone - a monument for group of the climbers who have lost at an ascention on peak Karakol. Returning in camp. Dinner, a overnight in tents.
Day 9. Walk to lake Ala-Kol (Í-3600).
Breakfast. Radial walk to lake Ala-Kol. We pass the river Kel-Ter, we go on the right coast and then it is risen on grassy slopes on pass from which the fine kind on lake Ala-Kol opens, length of lake of 2,3 kilometers, width 600 - in 700 meters. Lunch in a way. Returning in camp. Dinner, a overnight in tents.
Day 10. Karakol - gorge Dzhety-Oguz - settlement Tamga.
Breakfast. Crossing to the city of Karakol (12 km, 1 hour). Excursion on city: visiting orthodox Troitsk churches, (constructed in the end of the last century from a tree), Dungan a Muslim mosque, a city market. A lunch. Crossing: Karakol - settlement Tamga (100 km, 2 - 3 hours). On road visiting of gorge Dzhety-Oguz, walk to red rocks. Arrival in settlement Tamga, crossing to the guest house, accommodation. A dinner in the Kirghiz family. Evening walk on lake Issyk Kul, photographing of declines on lake. Returning in settlement Tamga. A overnight.
Day 11. Lake Song-Kol (Í-3016).
Breakfast. Crossing: settlement Tamga - Kochkorka - lake Song-Kol (the Lake is located in high-mountainous Song-Kol to a valley between ridges Moldo-Too, Song-Kol and Boor-Albas, in a river basin Naryn, length of lake of 29 km, width of 18 km, depth 13,2). On road on lake Song-Kol we shall see Ortokoi water basin ( Í-1700) , its length of 18 km, height of a dam of 52 m. Lunch on road on coast of the river. Arrival on lake Song-Kol, accommodation in yurt camp. Dinner and overnight in yurt.
Day 12. Lake Song-Kol.
Breakfast. Walks at coast of lake Song-Kol. Acquaintance to a life of the Kirghiz shepherds, visiting to yurt shepherds, walk on horses on the nearest hills. Interested persons can make walks on the nearest small lakes for supervision over birds with driving on horses. A lunch, a dinner, a overnight in yurt.
Day 13. Settlement Kochkorka - Ortokoi water basin.
Breakfast. Crossing: lake Song-Kol - Kochkor - Naryn the bridge through the river Chu. A lunch in a way. Accommodation in tents. A dinner, a overnight on coast of the river Chu in tents.
Day 14. Rafting on the river Chu.
Breakfast. Rafting to the river Chu (30 km), in the beginning on still water, then a break for a lunch, after a dinner an alloy on complex water. Time of an alloy borrows 5 - 6 hours. Dinner and overnight in tents on coast of the river Chu.
Day 15. Gorge Kongorchok.
Breakfast. Crossing: Naryn the bridge - The Red bridge (30 minutes, 16 km). Walk in gorge Kongorchek. The hiking on a canyon, before merge of canyon Kongorchok to a canyon the Kok-Djar-Suu and further transition on the river Kongorchok (6 hours, 12 km). A lunch in a way. A dinner, a overnight in tents.
Day 16. Gorge Oktorkoi.
Breakfast. Hiking on the river Kongorchok in gorge Oktorkoj (6 hours, 12 km). lunch in a way. Dinner, overnight in tents in gorge Oktorkoi.
Day 17. Gorge Shamsi.
Breakfast. Hiking: gorge Oktorkoj - gorge Shamsi (6 - 7 hours, 16 êm). Lunch in a way. Dinner, a overnight in tents in gorge Shamsi.
Day 18. Bishkek.
Breakfast. Crossing: gorge Shamsi - Bishkek (110 km, 2 hours). Arrival in Bishkek, crossing to hotel, accommodation. Excursion on city. Visiting of orthodox church, a museum of a name of Lenin, SUM, the Osh market, walk on city. A lunch, a dinner, a overnight.
Day 19. Departure from Bishkek.
