Cultural tour 2

Kyrgyzstan tourTour 2
Destination: Kyrgyzstan
Activity: Cultural tour
Duration: 8 days 
Places to visit: Bishkek - Issyk Kul Lake - Karakol - Tamga - Bokonbaiva - Kochkorka - Son Kul - Bishkek  

Tour summary: 

Day 1: Bishkek - Issyk Kul Lake
Your guide meets you at Manas Airport and accompanies to Bishkek City (30 min. drive), where you will have breakfast. Then you will be transported to the celestial Issyk Kul Lake (200 km), the second largest mountain lake in the world (1608 m.above sea level). There is another name of the Lake - "the pearl of Central Asia". We will visit the Burana Tower (ancient minaret 11th century) and an open air museum of Balbans (stone warriors). After a traditional lunch, we continue our way to the lake. When we get to the Hotel you will have a rest on the northern beach of the lake where you can lie on the warm sand or swim in the lake. The salty water of the Lake Issyk Kul possesses healing qualities. Your dinner will be served at 7 p.m.  

Day 2: Issyk Kul Lake - Karakol
The day starts with a traditional breakfast at 8 o'clock. After lunch we will start your trip to Karakol city by car (200 km). On the way, we will visit ritual stone depictions (dating back to 800 B.C.), including the local museum. On the way we will stop for a one hour cruise on a steam boat. Then you will be driven to Karakol city. National dinner will be at 8 p.m. Night is in a Guesthouse.

Day 3: Karakol - Tamga
The whole morning you will spend in Karakol City. You visit of the Dungan mosque built by secret Chinese technology, and then you visit a small wooden Russian Orthodox Church. Later, you will go to the museum of M.V. Prejvalsky, one of the world's greatest explores. The City Tour ends with a traditional lunch and we leave Karakol. At the way to Tamga we will visit Jeti Oguz, the gorge of 7 red rocks (30km). There is the Broken Heart Mountain and the Sanatorium (where you can take a hydro shower or get a massage). If you want, you can explore the Jeti Oguz valley  or colorful Chong Kyzyl Suu valley with its hot spring water and geophysics station built in 1948. Then transfer to Tamga village, a place where ancient Tibetan monks lived in the 13th century. Dinner will be served in the Tamga Guesthouse.

Day 4: Tamga - Bokonbaiva - Kochkorka (120km)
Breakfast is served at 9 o'clock. Then you have time to rest on the warm beach of the Issyk Kul Lake (till 12 o'clock) or to explore the village. Then you move  to Kochkorka village by car. Lunch will be served in Bokonbaeva village, in the house of a local eagle-hunter. Eagle hunting show can be arranged. After that, we continue our trip to Kochkorka village where you will meet a hospitable family that shows you the way of how national woolen felt carpets are produced.. Overnight and dinner accompanied by folk music show organized in the Kochkor Guesthouse

Day 5: Kochkorka - Son Kul Lake
After breakfast we move to the second largest lake in Kyrgyzstan Son Kul Lake. Lunch will be served on the way. Son Kul Lake is surrounded by mountains and situated at an altitude of 3013 meters above sea level and. Kyrgyz nomads used to come here since ancient times to use its surroundings as a pastureland. For dinner and overnight you stay in yurts, traditional nomad's dwelling. 

Day 6: Son Kul (3013m. above sea level)
We spend whole day here. After breakfast there will be free time and you can explore and enjoy the virgin nature of the lake and its surroundings on your own. You can ride a horse along the lake, or just relaxing in the atmosphere of the virgin and calm nature. Lunch will be served at 2 pm. Then you will visit ancient petrogliphs and ritual stones of shamans. It is a great opportunity to get acquainted with nomadic traditional culture. National dinner will be served in yurts.

Day 7: Son Kul - Bishkek
After breakfast served at 8 o'clock, we start our way back to Bishkek city (the capital of Kyrgyzstan). In Bishkek you will have a fascinating city tour and lunch. You will visit the central Ala-Too Square, shady Duboviy Park (Oak Park), Pobeda Square (Victory Square), the History Museum, National philharmonic, Oriental Bazaar, Art Gallery and many other highlights. At 7 pm a farewell dinner is served. Night is in a Hotel****. 

Day 8: Bishkek - Europe
At the time arranged according to your flight details, your guide will meet you in your Hotel and attend you to Manas Airport.

 

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Kyrgyzstan tourTour 1
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Activity: Cultural tour
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Kyrgyzstan tourTour 2
Destination: Kyrgyzstan
Activity: Cultural tour
Duration: 8 days 
Places to visit: Bishkek - Issyk Kul Lake - Karakol - Tamga - Bokonbaiva - Kochkorka - Son Kul - Bishkek 

This tour offers you the great possibility to explore the majestic land of divine mountains, located in Central Asia. You will be delighted by views of our nature, chaste wild places, and remarkable ancient sights! The whole tour goes along the Great Silk Road through the matchless Tian Shan massif. You will see our pride - second largest alpine lake in the world - Issyk-Kul, as well as the picturesque Son Kul Lake, that hidden on a high plateau in the centre of Kyrgyzstan (3013m. above sea level). You will be taken back to the time of great nomads, their traditions, culture and food. Read the tour...

 

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Activity: Cultural tour
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Activity: Cultural tour
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This tour is perfect for people who travel from Chinese-Kyrgyz border through Torugart pass to Bishkek city. During the whole tour you will live in hidden places that are pretty far from civilization. You will visit the famous caravanserai that is built in a mountain and also you will have time to relax in a peaceful atmosphere of Son Kul Lake. Read the tour...

 

Kyrgyzstan tourTour 5
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Activity: Cultural tour
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Kyrgyzstan tourTour 6
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Activity: Cultural tour
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Kyrgyzstan tourTour 7
Destination: Kyrgyzstan
Activity: Cultural tour
Duration: 13 days 
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