The main sights of Chui and Issyk-Kul valleys in 4 days

What's Included

Meeting and pickup

Itinerary

Day 1
Bishkek - Burana Tower - Chon Kemin Valley
1 stop
1
Burana Tower and Konorchek Canyon
Burana Tower is one of Kyrgyzstan’s best known archaeological sites. Burana is also home to a museum of important archaeological pieces that tell the history of the Silk Road and Kyrgyzstan’s place on it. The Tower is all that’s left of the city of Balasagun, which was the capital of the Karakhanid Empire in the 11th century. There is also a small collection of balbals, or kurgan stelae, near the tower accompanied by petroglyphs from the 2nd century BC that were brought here to be displayed.
40 minutes • Admission ticket included
Day 2
Chon-Kemin - Konorchek canyon - Issyk-Kul lake
2 stops
2
Konorchek Canyons
Konorchek Canyon is an amazing tourist destination in the eastern part of the Kyrgyz Range. It looks like a miniature Grand Canyon in the middle of the Tian-Shan Mountains! Thousands of years of soil erosion have made this place incredible. Even to this day, it is possible to find the remains of shells from ancient times when there was a sea. Despite the fact that the canyon is in the middle of the mountains, the temperature here is on average warmer than in the Chui Valley. There is practically no snow in the winter and the temperature hardly drops below 40 degrees Celsius in summer. The way to the canyon passes along the canal of a long dried up river. At times, the rocks are so close that there is a passage about a meter and a half wide. A very unusual phenomenon for the Tien Shan.
3 hours • Admission ticket free
3
Bokonbayevo
We will visit eagle hunter to listen to the history and traditions of hunting with golden eagles
1 hour • Admission ticket free
Day 3
South shore of the Issyk-Kul lake - Karakol
4 stops
4
Canyon Fairy Tale
Fairy Tale (Skazka) Canyon is one of the most stunning places in Kyrgyzstan, a canyon filled with fantastical sandstone shapes that give the spot its name, which means fairytale in Russian. Over thousand years of erosion, the red sandstone has taken on forms that some say resemble animals, landmarks, or characters from legends.
1 hour • Admission ticket included
5
Barskoon Gorge
One of the beautiest gorges of Kyrgyzstan with rivers and waterfall, spruce forests. Kyrgyz peope met with hospitality the first man in Space Yuri Gagarin here during his visit after his flight.
1 hour • Admission ticket free
6
Dungan Mosque
This is unlike any other mosque as it was built almost like a buddhist temple in the early 1900.
30 minutes • Admission ticket included
7
Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox Cathederal
The Russian Orthodox Holy Trinity Cathedral is located in the center of Karakol. It was built of hewn logs in 1894-1895 on the ruins of the brick church. The facade of the church is decorated with carvings, the bell tower is located at the top. On the roof you can see the traditional gilded domes of Orthodox churches.
30 minutes • Admission ticket free
Day 4
Karakol - Cholpon-Ata - Bishkek
2 stops
8
Museum of Petroglyphs
North of the city is an extensive field of glacial boulders, many with pictures scratched or picked into their surfaces. Some of these petroglyphs date from the Bronze Age (about 1500 BC), but most are Saka-Usun (8th century BC to 1st century AD), predating the arrival of Kyrgyz in the area. Saka priests used this sacred site for sacrifices and other rites to the sun god and they lived in the settlements that are currently underwater in the Cholpon-Ata bay.
1 hour • Admission ticket included
9
Swimming in hot spring waters
1 hour • Admission ticket free

Additional info

• Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
• Suitable for all physical fitness levels

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