Weekend tours

Weekend tours, Kyrgyzstan tours. 

Bishkek city tour
Bishkek is a young city comparing to other capitals in Central Asia, but it really has pretty unusual history. One of the greenest cities in Kyrgyzstan in our days, 131 years ago it looked like naked flat step without a single tree. Many people would like to live here, but Kyrgyz people managed to preserve it for their children. You will hear its history and your guide will show you the most famous places of our beautiful capital! Read the tour... 

Issyk Ata gorge
Issyk Ata is a wonderful gorge that is famous because of the hot springs with curative mineral water. It takes just two hours from Bishkek to get there. It is a beautiful gorge where you can have a light treck to a picturesque mountain waterfall. There is a small pass that leads you to it. There you can have a picnic. Also if wish you can go to swim an open swimming pool with mineral hot water. You will swim there and enjoy the remarkable view of mountains around! Read the tour...

Burana Tower
Burana Tower was built in 11 century in the centre of Balasagun - a thriving city on the Great Silk Road. Many traders used to come to that place to exchange their goods and stay for a night. At that time Tower was 45 meters high but because of the earthquake in 15 century part of it fell down. People used the tower as a sign for travelers and traders, as a watching tower and as a place to call local people to pray. After the earthquake in the 15 century people were scared to stay in the city. They thought that God cursed them. That is way they left the city in a hurry and did not have the majority of their belongings. Our archeologist found many artifacts there and part of them was taken to Russia, but you can see some of them in a local museum. The clay houses in the city melted because of time and now you can see only the tower and a hill nearby that is supposed to be khan's palace. Read the tour... 

Ala Archa gorge
Ala Archa gorge is the favorite place for weekend tours among locals and foreigners. It is situated in 45 km from Bishkek city, and you will rise from 750 to 2100 meters above sea level during one hour drive. The name of the gorge is Ala-Archa that means Bright Juniper because it grows everywhere there. For Kyrgyz it is a sacred tree that stays with people during their earth life and even after death. When a child born it has a cradle made of juniper, when he is ill adults burn it nearby saying special words, when the child is adult already and wants to merry - again a woman with burning juniper will go inside his new yurt to protect it from an evil spirits. And when the man dies his grave will be also made of this tree. Read the tour...

Horse riding tour
You can join the nice horse riding program in Chon Kemin valley. You will spend almost two hours to get there. Horses always played a big role in life of Kyrgyz nomads. They have a saying that horses are man's wings. It is impossible to imagine a nomadic herder without a horse. Now you also have an opportunity to ride it from Chon Kemin village to the bottom of Tien Shan Mountains. Read the tour...