Kyrgyzstan

​A mountain valley between Jeti Oguz and the Chong Kyzyl Suu valley.

The largest bay of the Issyk Kul lake. There are also few hot springs and wild sandy beaches.

Jyrgalan village is located 60 km east of Karakol town, in the Issyk Kul Oblast. Jyrgalan is a mountain village built at an altitude of 2250 meters, during the Soviet era for the exploitation of coal. The mine now closed, the inhabitants of the village have decided to form an ecotourism community and to develop year-round tourism in this little-known region.

In 2021, the community offered 8 homestays, 2 yurt camps and 1 guesthouse. There is no ski lift, but a snow-cat and snowmobiles.

​Epkin is a village not far from Kochkor. It is situated in a beautiful valley. Around the village are different interesting things to see, like a salt mine, kourganes and a small lake.

A 3790m high pass between Chong Kyzyl Suu valley and Kichi Kyzyl Suu valley.

Small lakes on the foot of the Juku pass, with turquoise color. The lower lake is just 100 meters long, the upper one is 400 meters long. It's nice place for camping.

At a high altitude reaching the glaciers of southeastern Kyrgyzstan "hides" one of the main pillars of the economy of that country.

A geophysical expedition of the Geological Committee of the Kyrgyz State discovered the Kumtor deposit in 1978. Then the USSR Ministry of Geology published the results of the detailed exploration of the Kumtor deposit in 1989.

Today, Kumtor's production accounts for more than a third of the country's exports of goods and services, and its mission goes beyond production alone.

All 6 lakes are located on the south side on the plateau of Kashkasuu pass at 3890 meters above sea level. They are surrounded by mountain peaks and glaciers located at more than 4,500 meters. The caravans coming from the north, who had crossed this difficult pass, probably had to stop at the shore of the lakes to let grazing camels and horses.

An old church in the village of Kyzyl Suu. ​

The church is quite beautiful, but a bit difficult to access. There is no sign at all and you have to knock on the blue garden gate to get in.

But it is certainly open, if they have church service, which is on saturdays at 4 o'clock pm and on sundays at 8 o'clock am.

The ancient Silk Road was a dirty road, which was originally used to spread silk from China all over the continent. The silk was in this time a very expensive, but useful product. In 121 BC the first camel caravan loaded with silk started. But soon, there were as well many other outlandish products being transported on the Silk Road. Together with the silk camels carried Indian gerns, Iranian silver jewery, rich cloths from Byzantium, Baltic amber, Mediterranean corals, ceramics, grapes, nuts and many others goods.