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Popular Things To Do | Miscellaneous Things To Do Tips | All Tips (61) About 3100 meters above sea level, it is another lovely lake located in Tien-shan mountain range. Son-kul is used by shepherd from the Kochkor region. The surroundings of son-kul are mostly untouched. Perhaps the most surprising fact is that around son-kul you will never see a tree or even a shrub. Leave a Comment
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Lake Issyk-Kul (170 km long x 70 km wide and 695 m deep), is considered to be the second largest mountain lake in the world, after Lake Titicaca in Southern America. It is situated high in the mountains at 1600 m. above sea level.
The name "Issyk-Kul" means "hot lake" in Kyrgyz and it never freezes.The mountain, and at the same time, marine microclimate produces a wild, unique environment. Leave a Comment
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Yaks are the mammals that live at the highest altitudes in the world. They can climb up as high as 20,000 ft (around 6,100 m). Yaks tend to live at high altitudes because of their thick coat and vulnerability to diseases. In fact, yaks normally cannot live below 10,000 ft above sea level. Yaks are found at high alpine pasture in Tien Shen mountains, around son-kul area.
Yaks can graze on the alpine grasslands in the summer and during winter on the shrubs in deep snow in rigorous temperatures. The yak looses weight during the winter but recovers and gains weight rapidly with the coming of spring grass. Leave a Comment
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The trip to Kyrgyzstan is not completed without the visit of beautiful Issy-kul lake. It is among world's most glorious lakes, surrounded by snow covered majestic tian-shan mountains its pure and clean water and lovely beaches invite tourists to spend some relaxing days here. Leave a Comment Address: Issy-kul lake, Issyk-kul oblast (province).
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Altyn Arashan is the most popular and most accessible (no tent required) trekking destination in Kyrgyzstan. From Karakol, take a bus to nearby Teploklyochenka, from there, it's a two hour walk South to the Ak-Suu sanatorium. This is where you can spend the first night and have a soak in the hot springs. Next morning it's a five-hour climb up a well marked path to Arashan, a beautiful pasture at the foot of the Tian Shan Mountains. You can stay and eat in the collective farm for about 4US$ a night (cheapskates can also pitch their tent), and from there there are plenty of daytrips and longer into the mountains.
After a day of hiking you can unwind in one of the many hotsprings. Leave a Comment Directions: Near Karakol
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Song kul is much smaller than Issyk Kul and does not have the relaxing beach and mountian atmosphere but it has a true Kyrgyz charm all of its own. A perfect blue disk set in a high alpine vally, the lake is surrounded by a sparse population of sheep, camels and yurt dwelling people.
Near the lake many large stones are set up in rings. There are no rocks like the boulders anywhere in the vally and no one knows how they got there. Local folklore says that Manas himself, the legiondary figure from Kyrgyz epic poetry, carried the stones there to set up firepits. They are known as the Manas stones. Leave a Comment
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