Trekking from Arashan to Kyzyl-Suu: advice needed - Kyrgyzstan

RE: Trekking from Arashan to Kyzyl-Suu: advice needed

Christina — Sat, 02 May 2026 11:05:41 +0000

with a possible meal option

“With a possible meal option))” — that’s encouraging)
Thank you 🙏

RE: Trekking from Arashan to Kyzyl-Suu: advice needed

Vladislav — Sat, 02 May 2026 11:04:52 +0000

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.

RE: Trekking from Arashan to Kyzyl-Suu: advice needed

Amir — Sat, 02 May 2026 11:04:05 +0000

Do people carry all their tents and sleeping bags with them?

You can rent trekking gear here. It’s quite a common service here.

RE: Trekking from Arashan to Kyzyl-Suu: advice needed

Christina — Sat, 02 May 2026 11:03:12 +0000

Oh, that’s cool, I’ve never done that))) I mean with horses)

Guess I’ll go weigh my tent 😂
Thank you 🙏

RE: Trekking from Arashan to Kyzyl-Suu: advice needed

Andrey — Sat, 02 May 2026 11:02:42 +0000

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.

RE: Trekking from Arashan to Kyzyl-Suu: advice needed

Marianna — Sat, 02 May 2026 11:02:11 +0000

Why “carry”?))
They transport them with love 😁
Or rent them.
Or leave them in storage “at base” / in Bishkek)))

RE: Trekking from Arashan to Kyzyl-Suu: advice needed

Christina — Sat, 02 May 2026 11:01:33 +0000

Do people carry all their tents and sleeping bags with them?

RE: Trekking from Arashan to Kyzyl-Suu: advice needed

Andrey — Sat, 02 May 2026 11:01:08 +0000

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.

RE: Trekking from Arashan to Kyzyl-Suu: advice needed

Christina — Sat, 02 May 2026 11:00:28 +0000

This is the route: Arashan Valley — Alakol North Pass — Lake Alakol — Karakol Valley — Teleti Pass — Jety-Oguz Valley — Archator Pass — Kyzyl-Suu Valley.

RE: Trekking from Arashan to Kyzyl-Suu: advice needed

Andrey — Sat, 02 May 2026 11:00:02 +0000

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.