Trekking

Trekking to Pik Lenin base camp at Achik-Tash (3,600 m): the Travellers Pass viewpoint, border permits, Osh transport and what it costs.

Horse trekking in Kyrgyzstan: why beginners are fine, the four best routes, honest daily costs, CBT booking and the saddle-soreness truth.

Two quiet days to alpine lakes at 3,500 m east of Karakol: routes, costs, camping, and why navigation is the real catch.

How to hike Konorchek Canyons from Bishkek: free entry, marshrutka drop-off at Kok-Moinok, route distances, water and flood rules.

Song-Kul is Kyrgyzstan’s essential yurt stay: costs at 3,016 m, the 2-3 day horse trek from Kyzart, and the road in.

Nine treks in Kyrgyzstan compared: Ala-Kul, Song-Kul, Kel-Suu and the Alay, with costs, permits, yurt camps and honest difficulty ratings.

Ala-Kul trek from Karakol: the stage-by-stage route over the 3,860 m pass, real 2026 costs, gear, altitude and honest difficulty.

In 1990 an earthquake 400km away dropped a serac onto a camp on Pik Lenin and killed 43 climbers. The deadliest mountaineering…

A magnitude 7.3 struck the valley you cross on the Bishkek-Osh road, and left almost no surface trace. Why that puzzle matters…

Not one Kyrgyz river reaches an ocean. Where the Naryn, Chu, Talas and Sary-Jaz actually end, why the Syr Darya starts here,…

Four venomous species, all vipers, no cobras at all, and no national bite statistic because nobody counts them. What is actually here…

Forty per cent of a whole duck population moults on one Kyrgyz lake. The Central Asian Flyway, the three Ramsar lakes, real…