Kyrgyzstan

The extrem south part of Issyk Kul oblast.

Blocked in the Central Tien Shan, the town was built during soviet times. If the town has no charm, the landscape is just unbelievable. Red cliffs are surrounding the main city of the Naryn's Oblast.

Tosor is a small village located on the southern shore of Lake Issyk Kul. Thanks to its beautiful sandy beaches, tourism is developing little by little. The inhabitants live mainly from agriculture and livestock.

The Southe Enilchek glacier is the largest glacier in the Tien Shan. Its length is 60.5 km, its area - 567.2 km ². The glacier begins in huge pools of snowfields in the shape of a circus at an altitude of 7440 m. The tongue of the glacier, 43.2 km long for an average width of 2.2 km, descends to 2800 m with an average slope of about 2 °. At the same time, it receives 78 large and small glacier-tributaries on both sides. The thickness of the ice on the main well reaches 150-200 m, the snowfield line is at an altitude of 4580 m, the lower 14 km of the tongue is covered with moraine.

The northern gorge of Shamsi is located 85 km from Bishkek and allowed caravans to cross the Kyrgyz Alatoo range and thus created a link between the city of Balasagun in Kochkor. Archaeological excavations have also revealed a Buddhist cemetery and a unique golden mask dating from the 4th to the 5th century AD. The Shamsi mask is embellished with three tree patterns created by a series of perforations highlighted with white pigment. Two of the trees cover the cheeks while the third was placed all over the nose and the middle of the forehead.

Sulaiman-Too Sacred Mountain Kyrgyzstan dominates the Fergana Valley and forms the backdrop to the city of Osh, at the crossroads of important routes on the Central Asian Silk Roads. For more than one and a half millennia, Sulaiman was a beacon for travellers revered as a sacred mountain. Its five peaks and slopes contain numerous ancient places of worship and caves with petroglyphs as well as two largely reconstructed 16th century mosques. One hundred and one sites with petroglyphs representing humans and animals as well as geometrical forms have been indexed in the property so far.

The Toktogul hydroelectric power station, built in 1975, is the largest and most important power station in the country, producing up to 40% of its electricity. In addition, the dam of its dam produces a volume of 19 billion cubic meters of water that flows through the largest Toktogul reservoir in Central Asia and governs the irrigation and energy regimes. Visits are prohibited to the public, and entrances are monitored by the military. Access to the dam is from the small town of Kara-Kël (or Karakul, Kara-Kul, Kara-Kol).

A beautiful gorge full of pine forests. The river is a confluence of the Naryn River.

Salkyn-Tor National Park is located on the forested northern slope of the Naryn Too mountain range about 18 km east of the town of Naryn. The park was established in May 2001 and has an area of 104 km². It can be reached easily by the road up the Naryn River. The entrance fee to the park costs $ 1 per person.
One of the objectives of the park is to increase the local population of Maral, which has declined sharply since independence. Other animals inhabit the forests of the Naryn Range include roe deer, Eurasian lynx, and brown bear.

Sarychat-Ertash Nature Reserve was founded in 1995
for the protection of high altitude ecosystems and its fauna, in particular the snow leopard and its prey. The total area is 1341 km² (518 mi²), making it one of the most important parks in Kyrgyzstan and Central Asia. It is located in the southeast of the Terskey Alatoo mountain range. Most of the park is made up of the Ak-Shirak massif and its high tundra.
Authorization to visit the park is difficult because access is only allowed to teams of scientists coming to study the flora and fauna of the park.