Trip to Issyk-Kul Lake
Duration: 13 days (12 nights).Season: July - September
Accommodation: guesthouse, tourist base (on the coast of Issyk-Kul Lake), tents.
Meal: full board (traditional Kazakh and Russian cuisine), a marching meal - during passages.
Transport: minibus, comfortable bus.
Tour description.
Day 1. Arrival in Almaty, transfer to hotel.Day 2. Drive from Almaty along Malaya Almatinka River valley to Medeo (1,700 m). Kim-Asar River valley - Butakovski pass (2,900 m) - Left Talgar River valley - Bolshaya Polyana. Camp 1 (2,100 m).
Day 3. Left Talgar River valley -“Alpiiskaya Rosa” polyana (2,400 m)- Solnechnaya polyana. Camp 2 (2,600 m). Adaptation.
Day 4. Left Talgar River valley - Tourists River valley - Tourists glacier moraine. Camp 3 (3,600 m).
Day 5. Tourists glacier - Tourists pass (3,950 m) - glacier Mutnyi - Bolshaya Almatinka river valley - Oziornaya River valley. Camp 4 (3,400 m).
Day 6. Oziornyi pass (3,500 m) - Kel-Almaty River - Chon-Kemin River valley - Kashka-Su river - South West Talgar river - Zhasyl-Kel Lake. Camp 5 (3,100 m).
Day 7. Ak-Su River valley - East Ak-Su River - East Aksu glacier moraine. Camp 6 (3,400 m).
Day 8. East Ak-Su Glacier - North Ak-Su pass (4,100 m) - Chon-Ak-Su River valley. Camp 7 (3,000 m).
Day 9. Descend along Chon Ak-Su River. Camp 8 (2,200 m).
Day 10. Village of Grigorievka - Issyk-Kul Lake (1,600 m).
Days 11-12. Two day camp on Issyk-Kul Lake - driving to Almaty.
Day 13. Transfer to airport. Return flight.
Cost of the tour includes: VISA support, accommodation, meal, guide's and interpreter's services, cook's services and rental payment for kitchen equipment, vehicles, rental payment for tourist equipment.