Horseback Tour to Song Kol Lake

Day 1: Kochkor village – Kyzart pass – Chaar-Archa Pass -Kilemche yurt camp

Transfer from Kochkor to Kyzart pass.  Arrival at Kyzart pass, meet your guides team and horses and start the tour. Within sight of the road, cross Kyzyl-Kiya jailoo, an enormous, relatively flat sea of grass. Continue over the Chaar-Archa Pass (3 061 m) into the Chaar-Archa Valley and eat a tasty lunch by the racing river, with views of holy 4400 m Baba-Ata Mountain.  Ford the river and follow the trail over verdant hills to Kilemche Jailoo.  The name means “like a carpet,” and this swathe of grass covers whole mountain ranges, with shadings as subtle as any shyrdak (shyrdak is a Kyrgyz felt carpet).  Dine and sleep in a yurt. Riding time: 5 hours

Day 2: Kilemche yurt camp – Song Kol lake – Tuz Ashuu yurt camp

After breakfast at Kilemche, spend the morning climbing to Jalgyz Karagai pass (3400 m), over the Song-Kol Mountains, and into the lake’s basin. The rocky and spectacular climb affords wonderful views of Kilemche jailoo.  From the pass, Song-Kol is still distant, but as you traipse down the slopes, it gets larger and larger; the mountains on the other side get higher and higher until finally, the lake fills most of your field of view and the southern mountains tower above it. Upon arrival meet your host family of Kyrgyz shepherds. Meals and overnight are in Shepherd’s yurt.
Riding time: 5 hours.

Day 3: Tuz Ashuu – Batai Aral – Kochkor village

Breakfast. Watching and/or participating in the everyday life of shepherds: milking mares; making national milk products like kymyz (a fermented mare’s milk) or airan (a sour dense milk product); tending cattle. After following the lakeshore east to the Batai Aral 2-3 hours riding. Arrive and eat a delicious lunch here. Afternoon transfer to Kochkor village, 3 hours.

Price of 3-days Horseback Tour to Song Kol Lake 

Included: 
2-nights in yurt with breakfast and dinner
3-lunches
Transport from/to Kochkor city
English Speaking Horse Guide
Horses

Not included: 
Hotel and meals in Kochkor city 
Bottled water
Insurance
Tips
Horse riding gear as helmets

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(If the following dates do not suit your travel plans, please contact us, we will post a new tour with your dates and try to collect more people to join you)