Date: May 26th - June 21st, 2026 This article I cover about Kyrgyzstan in general and Bishkek in particular. Kyrgyzstan is similar to Kazakstan in the form of traditions, landscape and food. Earlier history is known for their nomadic living and war like culture. And later it was under soviet rule so their current history and literature is heavily influenced by them. Unfortunately communistic and socialistic ideologies under psychopath like Lenin, who is still worshiped as gre

Date: 17th - 19th, June 2026 Sarey Chelek Sarey Chelek is a huge lake with cluster of small lakes surrounding it. It lies south west of Bishkek and takes around 12 hours to get there including rest times, taking photos. Since I am waiting for the Uzbekistan visa till monday which means I have 5 days, I decided to do Sarey chelek trip. After talking to couple of locals everyone suggested to go for a guided tour instead of exploring on my own. I always had strong aversion to gu

Date: June 10th, 2026 As I decided to stay in Ratsek Hut to plan couple of day hikes before I leave Ala-Archa National Park for good, I planned to do Uchitel Peak also calledTeacher's peak. As you read along you will understand as why they have named the peak as such. It has been both interesting and unfortunate for me to say the least on this hike. Uchitel Peak stands at 4530m, an elevation gain of 1200m from Ratsek Hut at 3360m over a distance of 2.7km, that means it is ove

Date: 1st 'to 6th June, 2026 Karakol is a small town near the mountains, a famous place where lot of tourists come here to hike for multi day hiking. The houses and the gardens are big so one has to walk a lot to get to different parts of the city. Since the place is dry, it could get lot of windy and dust. On my first day I felt lonely and immediately wanted to go back to Bishkek however, glad that I stayed for the good part. Second day I relaxed more doing research about th

Date: 2nd - 4th June, 2026 The hike to Ala Kol Lake, including the Altyn Arashan pass, takes 2 nights and 3 days starting from Karakol. After researching the top three hikes in Kyrgyzstan, I found this one to be the most recommended, so I decided to try it. I met a fellow hiker at the guesthouse who mentioned the pass was completely covered in snow, and another warned it was dangerous. Initially, this was disappointing, but I chose to proceed with the hike. After resting for

Date: 30th May, 2026 Konorchek canyon is very similar to that of Charyn Canyon of Kazakstan, red soil mountains spread across vast area. Most of the canyon is dry, as such full or sand and small rocks. It takes 2 hours from the Bishkek city centre to get to the canyon. The canyon is on the way to Balkchy or Karakol so one can take any minibus which goes down that way. Initially I searched on chatGPT to know where I should take the bus and it mis-directed me to the old bus sta

Date: May 28th, 2026 After doing some research of top 3 day hikes in Bishkek, Ala-Archa National Park came on the top. There are so many hikes within the national park it was hard to pick but I ended up to do Ak-Sai waterfall which is 4kms from the trail head. And I have done twice the same hike just to stay in the Ratsek Hut. Started early from the stay and took the public bus to the national park. It takes an hour and half from the city to get to the entrance of the nationa