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Gorge of Barskoon.

Travel tour to Kyrgyzstan.

“Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving” 

Terry Pratchett. “A Hat Full of Sky”.

Hiking tour in Barskoon gorge.

Barskoon the mountain gorge is located at the height from 1800 to 3500 meters above sea level. Is in Dzhety-Oguzsky district of the Issyk-Kul region. The gorge cuts a northern slope Ridge Terskey Ala-Too in the meridional direction, only in the top part accepts the width direction (a river basin Kerege-Tash).
It is stretched from the axial line of Ridge Terskey Ala-Too to the narrow lakeside plain on the southern coast Issyk-Kul. Length from sources of the river of the same name to the lakeside plain of 57 kilometers. Height of boards over the bottom from 300 - 500 meters (in the foothills) to 1000 - 1200 meters.
Steep slopes (over 45 degrees), often steep. Gorge upper courses - area of a modern freezing with trough valley, glacial cirque and a various thin relief. A gorge bottom Barskoon narrow (width no more than 100 - 150 meters), places forms expansions (to 300 - 400 meters), is cut through and deepened the rivers Barskon and her inflows.
The lower part of the gorge where there are trailing glaciers and snowflakes, is laid within the foothills, put tertiary, mainly by Neogene conglomerates and loessoid to anthropogene loams. It is used as a pasture. Barskoon passes the highway on Upper Naryn and Akshyyrak wide and shallow morainic depression through the gorge.
In the gorge forest security and forest recovery work is conducted. In the gorge there are falls Barskon - a nature sanctuary.

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Author and photos
Alexander Petrov.