KYRGYZSTAN SKI-TOURING WEEK

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IVisiting Kyrgyzstan should be at the top of everyone's bucket list: it's beautiful, welcoming, accessible and crucially, still relatively untouched. Kyrgyzstan is a mecca for ski-touring, our trip is in the Terskey-Ala-Too range based around the two ski centres of Karakol and Jergalan, excellent ski touring terrain in the east of Kyrgyzstan close to the Lake Issyk Kul.
Accommodation
• first four nights near Karakol we stay in winter-ready hand crafted Kyrgyz yurts heated by wood burning stoves. •
After four ski days we move further east to Jergalan valley and stay in a guest house for the rest of the trip.
• Kyrgyz saunas are available every night after skiing
Travel/Visa
Most nationalities can travel to Kyrgyzstan visa-free.
• Bishkek flights are via Istanbul
• Journey time 10-12 hours
• Flight costs - economy flights for February 2023 c.€500