{"id":2129,"date":"2025-03-19T08:43:45","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T05:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cbtkyrgyzstan.kg\/?p=2129"},"modified":"2026-01-23T10:04:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T07:04:23","slug":"english-around-issyk-kul-lake-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cbtkyrgyzstan.kg\/en\/summer-travel\/english-around-issyk-kul-lake-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Around Issyk-Kul lake, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>TRIP ESSENTIALS<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Tour Type:<\/strong> auto\/trekking<br \/>\n<strong>Total Duration:<\/strong> 7 days<br \/>\n<strong>Best Season:<\/strong> mid-May \u2013 end of September<br \/>\n<strong>Level of Difficulty:<\/strong> medium<br \/>\n<strong>Maximum Altitude on the Trip:<\/strong> 3 000 meters ASL<br \/>\n<strong>Start and End Point:<\/strong> Bishkek<br \/>\n<strong>Transport:<\/strong> jeep\/minivan\/minibus depending on the size of the group<br \/>\n<strong>Best group size: 2- 12 person<\/strong><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Day 1\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Transfer to Chong-Kemin valley, on the way make a stop to visit Burana tower, architectural complex of 10-11 century, important point on the Great Silk Road. Have a lunch at Kyrgyz family near Burana tower. Continue your way to Chong-Kemin valley to Karool-Dobo village. Upon arrival to home stay, free time. Optional, you can do short trek or horse riding. Dinner and B&amp;B at home stay.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Day 2\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Morning transfer to Karakol by northern lake shore of Issyk-Kul lake, on the way makes a stop to visit open-air museum in Cholpon-Ata and have a lunch. Upon arrival to Karakol, visit Dungan Mosque and Russian Ortodox Church. Dinner will be at caf\u00e9, overnight at guest house.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Day 3\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Morning after breakfast transfer from Karakol town to Ak-Suu. Meet your guide team and start trekking up to the river Ak-Suu. Ascent the hot spring first day. At the Altyn-Arashan resort is possible to take a thermal water bath. You will never be able to forget the sight of the snow on Peak Palatka (Tent) 5260 m or \u201cSwallow\u2019s Nest Pool\u201d, nestling beneath the open sky. Overnight in hut.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Day 4\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After breakfast in Altyn-Arashan gorge. At the Altyn-Arashan resort is possible to take a thermal water bath. Have a lunch at caf\u00e9 in Karakol, then transfer to Jety-Oguz gorge (Seven bulls gorge). 2<sup>nd<\/sup>\u00a0stop will be at Skazka Canyons (Fairy Tale canyons). Dinner and B&amp;B will be at Bel-Tam yurt camp\/home stay at Bokonbaevo village.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Day 5\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Early in the morning after breakfast you will be picked up at your guesthouse and brought by car to the village of \u201cTuura-Suu\u201d. There you will meet your guide and start the tour to the first jailoo. We will stop for a picnic lunch on the way. In the afternoon we will reach the jailoo \u201cAshuu-Tor \u201c, where you can enjoy a beautiful sunset and a panoramic view of Issyk-Kul Lake. We will stay in tents for the night.<\/p>\n<p>Distance: 13km \u2013 Elevation gain\/loss: 995m\/-30m<\/p>\n<p><strong>Day 6\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the morning you will ride to \u201cTuiuk-Tor\u201d. After lunch we will take a short rest to enjoy the panorama of Issyk-Kul Lake and the valley. Later we will arrive at the jailoo \u201cJazuu-Kechuu\u201d. Drive back to the yurt camp. Dinner and B&amp;B at yurt camp.<\/p>\n<p>Distance: 10km \u2013 Elevation gain\/loss: 700m\/-550m<\/p>\n<p><strong>Day 7\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Morning transfer to mountains area to see eagle hunting show. Next our stop will be at Kyzyl-Tuu village for lunch at see yurt installation. Then transfer for Bishkek, upon arrival to Bishkek, hotel accommodation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TRIP ESSENTIALS Tour Type: auto\/trekking Total Duration: 7 days Best Season: mid-May \u2013 end of September Level of Difficulty: medium Maximum Altitude on the Trip: 3 000 meters ASL Start and End Point: Bishkek Transport: jeep\/minivan\/minibus depending on the size of the group Best group size: 2- 12 person Day 1\u00a0\u00a0 Transfer to Chong-Kemin valley, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,14],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-2129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-summer-travel","category-upcoming"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-30 19:04:12","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cbtkyrgyzstan.kg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cbtkyrgyzstan.kg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cbtkyrgyzstan.kg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cbtkyrgyzstan.kg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cbtkyrgyzstan.kg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2129"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cbtkyrgyzstan.kg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2197,"href":"https:\/\/cbtkyrgyzstan.kg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2129\/revisions\/2197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cbtkyrgyzstan.kg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cbtkyrgyzstan.kg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cbtkyrgyzstan.kg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2129"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cbtkyrgyzstan.kg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=2129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}