Good evening everyone!
I want to do a short one-week trek from Aksuu to the Kyzyl-Suu valley.
Please share your experience — is it only possible to stay overnight with a tent there, or are there places to stay and eat, lodges like in Nepal?
I really don’t feel like bringing a tent and sleeping bag on the plane.
Do you mean from Karavshin to the Alay Valley?
Instead of lodges, there are sometimes yurt camps here, but you’re unlikely to find them there — it’s not a very popular route, and the camps here are more geared toward tourists who are brought in by minibus rather than those who hike in on their own.
Also, study carefully the system of Uzbek enclaves in the north — there are many of them, and you can’t just walk freely along the border there. Not sure how difficult it is to get a border permit.
And if you want to reach the western part of the Alay Valley (Daraut-Kurgan and further west), you’ll also enter a border zone, and it’s controlled by a different border unit with its own permits.
Also keep in mind that almost all of the Alay Valley south of the river is also a border zone. And the base camp under Lenin Peak is too.
That’s why most trekkers enter some valleys from the Osh side and go into the Alay Valley — to Sary-Mogol and the surrounding areas.
This is the route: Arashan Valley — Alakol North Pass — Lake Alakol — Karakol Valley — Teleti Pass — Jety-Oguz Valley — Archator Pass — Kyzyl-Suu Valley.
Ah, you mean the Terskey range. There are, of course, many different tourists there.
No, I don’t know anything about the level of service in those places, but I wouldn’t expect mountain huts at Lake Alakol either.
And it would be hard and strange to just pass by it quickly.
Do people carry all their tents and sleeping bags with them?
Why “carry”?))
They transport them with love 😁
Or rent them.
Or leave them in storage “at base” / in Bishkek)))
Me and my friends carried everything ourselves, and I don’t know anything about commercial services in that area 🙁
In the south I saw Europeans whose gear was carried by horses.
But the trails there were easier than Alakol North.
Oh, that’s cool, I’ve never done that))) I mean with horses)
Guess I’ll go weigh my tent 😂
Thank you 🙏
You can rent trekking gear here. It’s quite a common service here.Do people carry all their tents and sleeping bags with them?
Hello. Along your entire route last year there were base camps — tent camps with a possible meal option. These are Aksai camps. The first one is right at Alakol, the second in the Karakol gorge a bit above the gorge where the descent from Alakol is, the third in Teleti after the pass near the river. In Jety-Oguz there are plenty of different yurt camps. In Kyzyl-Suu — no, but there you need to arrange for a car to meet you, and you can go straight to Issyk-Kul (as an option, you can stay overnight at a hot spring there, there are cabins).
How it will be this year — you need to research.