Excursions to Kyrgyzstan
Excursion in Bishkek
Duration – 5 hours
Advance order – 24 hours before
Season – all the year round
Sightseeing of Bishkek City , visit to (from 10.00 till 15.00 o'clock): Statue of Manas and manaschi (story-tellers of Manas), Ala-Too square, Osh bazaar, Flagpole and change of guards, Historical State museum, Panfilov Park , Victory square, TSUM.
Bishkek city
Situated in the central Chui valley, at the foot of the Kyrgyz range of the Ala-Too mountains which rise to à hieght of 4894 m , covered with juniper, pine, blue spruce, birch, poplar, elm and willow.
Tulips, irises and especially poppies grow on the foothills giving à colour ful hue in Spring. Wildlife includes deer, wild boar, ibex, snow leopard, wolves, pheasant, hawks and eagles. To the North are the Jalanash hills in Kazakhstan . The mountains protect the city from extreme heat in summer and cold in winter.
There are two rivers flowing through the city — Alamedin, Ala-Archa-both tributaries of the River Chu. Also, the Grand Chu Canal flows through the city. The city is said to be the greenest in Central Asia with more trees ðå r head of population than any other.
It is à manufacturing centre, it' s factories produce about half of Kyrgyzstan's output, and specialise in textiles, footwear, and heavy engineering (à particular legacy of when à number of factories were transferred from European Russia to escape the approaching Late Stone age implements have been found in the Alamedin valley.
Bronze age artifacts have been found within the city boundaries and Âårå is archaeological evidence of early settlement in the area was by: the Saks - an iron age nomadic people herding livestock; the Usans - who combined nomadic herding with settled agriculture; the Turks - arriving from Siberia, they beat the Huns in à battle at Tales and established à Khanate; the Sogd - based on Samakand and Bukhara, the Sogdians were Indo-European traders and farmers whose cities became centres on the Great Silk Road; the Samanids - à sedentary Muslim people; the Karakhanids ("Black Khans") who established à capital at Balasugan (Âurana – near Tokmak); the Mongols and Tartars - under Geghis Khan and the Kyrgyz themselves- first mentioned in chinese chronicles in the 2 century ÂÑ , they arrived from the upper Yenisei River Valley in the X century, became firmly established in the region by the 15 century.
There have been four major settlements on the site that is now occupied by Bishkek: Jul - 6 -12 century; Pishpek — 1825 - 1926; Frunze – 1926 - 1991; Bishkek - 1991 to the present Jul - À Sogdian city on the Great Silk Road - XII century.
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Orthodox church of city
A monument of Manas on the main
area of city
Square Victory in Bishkek
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