Dates - 07-17 February 2025 TBC
Duration - 11 days
- 7 days ski-touring
- 2 days bus transfers
- 2 days International travel
Outline
Visiting Kyrgyzstan should be at the top of everyone's bucket list: it's beautiful, welcoming, accessible and crucially, still relatively untouched. Kyrgyzstan is a mecca for ski-touring, our trip is in the Terskey-Ala-Too range based around the two ski centres of Karakol and Jergalan, excellent ski touring terrain in the east of Kyrgyzstan close to the Lake Issyk Kul.
Accommodation
- first four nights near Karakol we stay in winter-ready hand crafted Kyrgyz yurts heated by wood burning stoves.
- After four ski days we move further east to Jergalan valley and stay in a guest house for the rest of the trip.
- Kyrgyz saunas are available every night aUer skiing
Travel/Visa
Most nationalities can travel to Kyrgyzstan visa-free.
- Bishkek flights are via Istanbul
- Journey time 10-12 hours
- Flight costs - economy flights for February 2023 c.€500
Price CHF2750* per person - based on minimum of 4 guests.
(*Price is based on quadruple occupancy in yurts and double occupancy in hotels).
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Itinerary
Day 1 International travel to Bishkek
Day 2 Arrive Bishkek. Meet guides. Drive to Karakol for aprox 6 hrs. Skin up to yurts.
Day 3-6 4 days ski-touring in the Karakol region, 4 nights staying in yurts, hot saunas.
Days 7-9 3 days ski-touring in the Jergalan region, 4 nights staying in a guest house.
Day 10 Ski out, transfer back to Bishkek, evening out in the city and overnight in a city hotel.
Day 11 International travel day
