Mercury
Mercury is the second most commonly found element in the Kyrgyz Republic. Deposits are found in the form of a large belt, 5 kilometers deep, from the leilek river in…
Read more »Myortvoye Ozero – Salty Lake
Kyrgyzstan’s "Dead Sea" For most of the way, the road which runs around the southern shore of Lake Issyk Kul hugs the coast quite closely. About 30km from Balykchy, however, if…
Read more »Lake Ala Kol
Ala Kol lake is on the popular trekking routes between Altyn-Arashan and the Karakol gorge at an altitude of 3532m. It is often the first overnight stop on the route…
Read more »Lake Merzbacher
In the North-Eastern corner of Kyrgyzstan, two ridges of the Tian Shan converge and some peaks rise to over 6000m. The Enilchek glacier snakes down from the clouds, nestling at…
Read more »Lake Sary Chelek
Some 500 km from Bishkek and 300 km from Osh is The Sary Chelek biosphere reserve, which lies in the Arkit Gorge, a relatively small mountain hollow in the Chatkal…
Read more »Lake Son Kul
Son Kul is a mountain lake in the Central Tian Shan range, virtually in the centre of Kyrgyzstan. One translation of the name is “The Last Lake”. At an altitude…
Read more »Lake Issyk Kul
"Pearl of the Tien Shan" From Bishkek the lake is approached through Boom Gorge, and it is possible to cut into the mountains here to the Chon Kemin valley, birthplace…
Read more »Chui region
BURANA TOWER – THE RUINS OF ANCIENT BALASAGYN 75 km east from the city is a 25m-high tower, which dates from the 11th century and is all that remains of…
Read more »Issyk-Kul lake
Enclosed on all sides by the snowy peaks of the Tien Shan Mountains, lake Issyk-Kul literally meaning “hot lake” is said to be the world’s second-largest alpine lake or second…
Read more »Issyk-Kul region
PETROGLYPHS OF CHOLPON-ATA Issyk-Kul Open Air museum In Cholpon-Ata is the most accessible and visitable part of North Issyk-Kul accumulation of the petroglyphs. The petroglyphs were carved and painted onto…
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