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Tour Type: photo
Total Duration: 5 days
Best Season: mid-June – end of September
Level of Difficulty: easy
Maximum Altitude on the Trip: 3 400 meters ASL
Start and End Point: Bishkek
Accommodation: hotel in Bishkek and Karakol ; home stay in Bokonbaevo and yurt in Song-Kol.
Transport: jeep/minivan/minibus depending on the size of the group
Best group size: 4- 12 persons
Early morning arrival at Manas airport. Meet and transfer to Bishkek. Accommodation in a hotel. Rest till lunch. Lunch. Afternoon city tour in Bishkek with visiting: Victory Square, Tsum Center, Opera and Ballet Building, Museum of Fine Arts, Oak Park, Mikhail Frunze Museum, Erkindik Boulevard, Open Air Art Gallery, Central Square Ala-Too, monument to Chingiz Aitmatov, Old Square, monument to Lenin, Panfilov Park, White House, Monument to Revolution, Philharmonic Hall Building, Monument to Manas, Osh bazaar. Drive to Ata Beyit Memorial Complex dedicated to the victims of Revolt against Tsarist Empire in 1916, victims of Stalin’s Repressions 1934-1938, and victims of 2010 Revolution. Return to Bishkek. Accommodation in hotel. Dinner at restaurant.
After breakfast leave for Karakol Town via northern shore of Issyk-Kul lake. Visit the Burana Tower architectural complex (10th-11th century, an important point on the Great Silk Road) on the way (15 km from the main road, 1 hour). Lunch en route in Tamchy Village in the local family. Visit Rukh-Ordo complex, where you can see memorial to Ata-Turk. Further drive to Karakol. Arrival in Karakol, accommodation in a guesthouse. Dinner in a local Dungan family (Dungans are Chinese Muslims, who escaped from China).
Leave to the southern shore of Issyk-Kul lake. On the way visit Jeti-Oguz Gorge (Seven Bulls Rock) and Skazka Canyons (Fairtale Canyon). En route experience Kyrgyz National Horse Games. Lunch en route in a Kyrgyz family. Arrival in Bokonbaevo, accommodation in local guesthouses. Afternoon observe hunting with an eagle demonstration. Dinner.
Morning transfer to Song-Kol Lake. En route stop in Kyzyl-Tuu village, the Village of Yurt makers. Visit a Kyrgyz family where all family members make a Boz Ui (Yurt) – a traditional Kyrgyz dwelling tent. Continue to Song-Kol Lake, make a stop in Kochkor Village for lunch. Meet your host family, dinner upon arrival. You can also help your host family with their everyday life: looking after the horses and sheep, making bread and milk products, bringing water from a source nearby. Dinner and overnight stay in a shepherd’s yurt.
Late morning transfer to Bishkek. Lunch en route. Arrival in Bishkek. Farewell dinner at restaurant with folklore concert. Hotel accommodation.
Check out of hotel. Night or early morning transfer to the airport. Departure.