Bird-watching tour in Kyrgyzstan.

«A lake is the landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature»

Henry David Thoreau.

Package tour in Kyrgyzstan.

The gorge Arashan begins on the South behind the settlement of Ak-Suu which is the administrative center of the Ak-Suuysky district of the Issyk-Kul region. Arashan the gorge settles down on a northern slope of Ridge Terskey Ala-Too in east direction from the city of Karakol.
The unique and memorable and environmentally friendly nature of the gorge Arashan the most important reason for which it is necessary to visit this primitive corner of the nature of Kyrgyzstan. Beautiful mountains overgrown with a tien-shan fir-tree open a set of opportunities for campaigns, hiking tourism and outdoor recreation of the gorge Arashan.
From open spaces of around Issyk-Kul to mountain glaciers, to the traveler who appeared in this on the unique part of Kyrgyzstan an extraordinary variety of landscapes and natural sights will open. Mount Terskey Ala-Too is the whole ecosystem, deep gorges with the rough and prompt rivers, rocky tops, wide high-rise dzhailoo, the Alpine meadows.
In the summer, mountain pastures - dzhailoo will be decorated with yurts of nomadic cattle-farmers which bring here the animals that they ate juicy meadow, mountain herbs. Between mountain tops lakes, some of them, in dependence of filling were stretched by glacial water, happen seasonal.
In the middle of the 60th years of last century the track to the resort Altyn-Arashan passed from office of the reserve on the narrow of Arashan, passing from one river bank to another on several bridges. Other sights of the valley Arashan are: thin and the glacial lake Kashka-Suu at a northern glacier of top the Aksuysky wall and falls on the river of Ak-Suu - the top inflow of Arashan.
The Shar-Kyratma falls, Tash-Tektir and Kuldurek are very beautiful. The lake enjoys special popularity It is Ala-Kol 3532 meters above sea level located at the pass of the same name on the way to the neighboring valley Karakol.
The top part of the gorge the ice-covered huge trapezoid top the Aksuysky wall of 5022 meters above sea level and to the east - peak the Soviet Russia closes 4900 meters above sea level. In this zone the Ak-Suu zoological wildlife area is located.

Author and photos
Alexander Petrov.