Kyrgyzstan is one of the five countries in Central Asia with recorded history spans over 2,000 years, encompassing a variety of cultures and empires.
Although geographically isolated by its highly mountainous terrain, this has helped preserve its ancient culture, Kyrgyzstan has been at the crossroads of several great civilisations as part of the Silk Road and other commercial and cultural routes.
We started our journey in Bishkek: green and vibrant capital. Issyk-Kul was our next obvious destination. Area around the lake is famous for water sports, hikes and horse riding. Bizarre mountains along the southern coast will leave you impressed. We started our loop around the lake from Cholpon Ata, resort town on the northern slops of Issyk Kul, there we checked Petrogliphs Museum and thermal springs.
Karakol has a lot to offer for travellers and we took advantage of it. We headed to Altyn Arashan for a day hike and stayed for the night in the yurt there - quite unique experience. Our next stop was Jeti-Oguz with its Seven Bulls mountains and broken heart and we should admit that it broke our hearts as well.
On the way to Bokonbaevo we stoped at Fairytale canyon and we really felt like we got to some sort of fairytale, there are few less touristy canyons in the area so you might want to find them to be off the beaten path thou. Luckily for us, we joined a group of travellers and ended up at the eagle hunting demonstration: really impressive thousands years old tradition. Bokondaevo impressed us with its horse riding. Day-long trip in the high mountains we will remember for a long time.
Back to Bishkek and straight to Osh City in Southern Kyrgyzstan. Here we visited Arslanbob with its Walnut forest and beautiful mountains, local Kyrgyz wedding and Sary-Tash area. That’s short description of out journey in Kyrgyzstan and for more check this video.

If we need to describe Kyrgyzstan in a few words then it would be: fantastic hikes, great horse riding and welcoming people!

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