Activities in Kyrgyzstan
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Tien-Shan Travel
Ex-cartographers with expedition gear and a menu of set group tours into the mountains, but unaccustomed to walk-in clients. Contact Vladimir Birukov.
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Ecotour
Ecofriendly and flexible with budget demands. Stay in traditional yurts with solar-heated water, and small hydroelectric turbines at Temir Kanat, Ak-Sai, Tuura-Su, Kara-Talaa, Jeti-Öghuz and Bosteri for €20 per night (includes three meals and horse riding). Contact English-speaking Elmira or German-speaking Zamira.
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Ecotrek - Trekking Workers Association
Rents trekking equipment including sleeping bags (around Som100), 2-/3-person tents (around Som160), primus stoves (around Som40s) and sells gas canisters. The staff can also arrange guided treks (guides, cooks and porters) and guided horse treks in the surrounding valleys including a five-day trek from their yurt camp in the Valley of the Flowers, and Jeti-Öghuz to Altyn Arashan.
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Alp Tour Issyk Köl
This professional company offers a range of treks around Karakol and further field, including Kazakhstan and Khan Tengri base camp. They can arrange border permits in a day, supply guide/cooks, porters and climbing guides for Khan Tengri. The staff will also resupply your own long-distance treks and arrange daily transport on request to the Karakol ski base in winter.
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Guides and Porters Association
This new cooperative of young guides operates from the Art Gallery Dali under the direction of Serebrennikov Valeriy, a mountaineer with 30 years experience. It can arrange guided treks, English, French or German interpreters and lead five-day mountain-biking trips to Barskoön via Saruu, Juuku Pass and Ara-Bel Valley (mountain-bike rental US$25 per day).
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Munduz Travel
Professional company that organises group and individual tours. It also operates an upmarket guesthouse in town and can arrange transport to Irkeshtam (overnighting in their yurt camp near Sary Tash, US$10 per person), Batken, Pik Lenin base camp, Tashkent (Uzbekistan) and Tajikistan. GBAO permits for Tajikistan cost US$25 and take a day to organise.
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Alptreksport
These two brothers, veterans of the Soviet sports agency Sovintersport's International Mountaineering Camp (IMC) Pamir, organise mountaineering, trekking and caving trips, including some around Sary-Chelek, Achik, Jiptik Pass (4185m) and Sary Moghul in the Alay Valley. Yury speaks English and prefers advance bookings.
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Amanbayev Zakir
Local guides include Amanbayev Zakir and Nurdan of the South Guesthouse. Both lead personal tours, arrange transport and book accommodation nationwide. Nurdan also has extensive regional knowledge and will happily arrange local excursions and treks to the more obscure of the canyons around Bishkek.
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Daniyar Abdurahmanov
In lieu of an organised CBT office, Daniyar, the operator of Osh Guesthouse, has become the unofficial tourist information centre by default. Contact him to arrange competitively priced transport to Kashgar via the Irkeshtam Pass and personal guiding/translating services.
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Dostuck Trekking Ltd
Offers ascents to peaks, including base camps near Khan Tengri, Pobedy and Lenin as well as less specialised, fixed-date treks including yurt camps in the Suusamyr Valley and Tash Rabat. Can arrange helicopter transport and border permits.
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Alpine Fund
This nonprofit organisation, established to assist Kyrgyz youth, runs weekend hikes and climbs in Ala-Archa National Park, including overnight summit attempts on Peak Uchitel (4572m). It also rents trekking gear.
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Novinomad Cultural Tours
An excellent operator for cultural tours, Torugart trips and trekking and translating services. Can book CBT and yurt-camp accommodation across the country.
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Ak-Sai
Provides trekking, mountaineering, biking, heli-skiing and visa support. It operates base camps at Inylchek and Pik Lenin, and the Red Fox camping store.
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Celestial Mountains
British-run agency that specialises in the Torugart Pass but can also offer visa support and cultural tours. Runs a hotel in Naryn. Contact Ian Claytor.
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Maison du Voyageurs
Organises flexible, general interest trips throughout Kyrgyzstan and neighbouring countries for small groups. French speaking guides available.
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Delfin swimming pool
Locals swim in the Ak-Buura River during summer or head to the Delfin swimming pool a stone's throw away. Neither are particularly clean.
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International Mountaineering Camp Pamir
Trekking and mountaineering programmes and operates the Achik Tash base camp at the foot of Peak Lenin. Contact Bekbolot Koshoev.
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Silk Road Water Centre
Specialists in white-water rafting, kayaking and fishing trips on the Chuy, Chong-Kemin, Kekemeren and Naryn rivers.
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Edelweiss
Trekking, mountaineering, heli-skiing, horse tours, ski trips and visa support. Contact Slava Alexandrov.
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Central Asia Tourism Corporation
Visa support, rental cars, air tickets, accommodation and inclusive tours.
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Top Asia
Offers trekking, mountaineering and horse riding.
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ITMC Tien-Shan
Competent adventure-travel operator offering package and piecemeal help, including visa support; mountaineering, with base camps at Khan Tengri, Achik Tash (Pik Lenin) and Koh-i-Samani (Kommunizma); trekking; heli-skiing; mountain biking; and crossing the Torugart. Not to be confused with its former partner at Tien-Shan Travel.
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Kyrgyz Concept
Offers cultural programmes at the higher end of the travel spectrum. Can arrange visa support, Bishkek homestays, horse trekking, cultural shows and can even put you in touch with a Kyrgyz costume designer. It is also a reliable international ticket agency. Credit cards accepted.
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