ECOLOGICAL – BOTANICAL GREEN TOUR

(Liliaceae, Amaryllidaceae, Asphodelacea, Papaveraceae, Ranunculaceae, Crassulaceae, Fabaceae, Rosaceae, Primulaceae and Lamiaceae)

Route № 3  (Alexander Mt. Range, Suusamyr Valley, Talas Valley, Chyсhkan and Karasu River gorges, Teo-Ashuu, Otmyok, Alabel and Kok-Bel Passes, Naryn River canyon)
10 days from May, 01 till May, 10

1 Day

Meeting in Bishkek town, placing in hotel, breakfast 

10.00 After breakfast –  trip along the foothills and mountains of Alexander Mt. Range  –  Besh-Kungei Hills at an altitude of 1,000 m and Ala-Archa River basin at an altitude from 1,400 up to 2,300 m

Gorges and slopes of mountains, plateaus and banks of rivers. Wonderful mountain landscapes with high peaks of the Range with snowfields and glaciers.

14.00  Dinner in the mountains or at the cafe                                                                                                                                                    

  1. Species of flowers:
  2. Tulipa greigii – Besh-Kungei Hills
  3. Tulipa zenaidae – Oruu-Sai and Ala-Archa Gorges
  4. Eremurus cristatus – Besh-Kungei Hills
  5. Allium caricifolium  – Besh-Kungei Hills
  6. Allium fetissowii –   Besh-Kungei Hills
  7.  Astragalus fedtschenkoanus –  Besh-Kungei Hills
  8. Astragalus schrenkianus –Besh-Kungei Hills
  9. Astragalus sieversianus –Besh-Kungei Hills
  10. Caragana camilli-schneideri  – Besh-Kungei Hills
  11. Onobrychis chorassanica –Besh-Kungei Hills
  12. Tulipa heterophylla  – Oruu-Sai Gorge
  13. Trollius altaicus  –  Oruu-Sai Gorge
  14. Oxytropis ferganensis  – Besh-Kungei Hills, Kashka-Suu Gorge
  15. Rosa platyacantha – Besh-Kungei Hills
  16. Spiraea hypericifolia  – Besh-Kungei Hills
  17. Atraphaxis pyrifolia – Besh-Kungei Hills
  18. Primula algida – Oruu-Sai Gorge
  19. Primula kaufmanniana –   Kashka-Suu Gorge
  20. Scutellaria mesostegia – Besh-Kungei Hills, Karandolot Gorge                                                                                          

20.00 Supper, placing in hotel (Bishkek)

2 Day

8.00 Breakfast in hotel (Bishkek town)

10.00 After breakfast –  trip along the foothills and mountains of Alexander Mt. Range (Karandolot Gorge and Kegety River gorge  at an altitudes from 1,000 up to 2,000 m) 

You will see gorges and slopes of mountains, plateaus and banks of mountain rivers. Wonderful mountain landscapes with high peaks of the range with snowfields and glaciers and of course beautiful endemic flowers.   You will also visit a beautiful waterfall in the Kegety gorge and the Burana Tower monument - a minaret of the 9th-11th centuries of the Karakhanid state in the Chui valley

14.00  Dinner in the mountains or at the cafe                                                                                                                                                    

  1. Species of flowers:
  2. Tulipa greigii – Serafimovka Gorge
  3. Eremurus zoae – Serafimovka Gorge
  4. Hedysarum sultanovae  – Karandolot Gorge
  5. Louiseania ulmifolia  – Alamedin Gorge
  6. Rosa platyacantha – Karandolot Gorge
  7. Primula kaufmanniana –Kegety Gorge
  8. Eremurus fuscus  –Kegety River gorges
  9. Scutellaria mesostegia – Karandolot Gorge
  10. Waterfall in the Kegety Gorge
  11. Burana Tower  - a minaret of the 9th-11th centuries of the Karakhanid state                                

20.00 Supper, placing in hotel (Bishkek town)

3 Day

8.00 Breakfast in hotel (Bishkek town)

10.00 After breakfast –  trip from the Bishkek town to the Talas town along the foothills and mountains of Alexander Mt. Range, across tunnel on the Teo-Asshu Pass at an altitude of 3,150 m, Suusamyr Valley at an altitude from 2,200 up to 2,650 m, Otmyok Pass at an altitude of 3,340 m, and Talas Valley   at an altitude from 2,000 down to 890 m

You will see deep rocky gorges, high-altitude snow-covered valleys, fast-flowing mountain rivers, powerful rocky massifs and glaciers shining in the sun, and of course, beautiful high-altitude flowers

14.00  Dinner in the mountains or at the café

  1. Species of flowers:
  2. Colchicum luteum  – Chichkan River gorge
  3. Tulipa dasystemon  – Suusamyr Valley
  4. Colchicum kesselringii  – Suusamyr Valley
  5. Iridodictium kolpakovskianum  – Suusamyr Valley
  6. Corydalis ledebouriana  – Suusamyr Valley
  7. Tulipa tetraphylla – Suusamyr Valley
  8. Chorispora sibirica – Suusamyr Valley
  9. Chorispora bungeana – Suusamyr Valley

20.00  Supper and hotel accommodation (Talas town)

4 Day

8.00 Breakfast in hotel (Talas town)

9.00 After breakfast –  trip along of foothills and mountains of Besh-Tash Gorge at an altitude from 1,460 up to 1,560 m, Echkelyu-Too Mt. Range at an altitude of 1,160 m, Kirowskoe Water Reservoir at an altitude of 890 m and Aktash Mt. Range at an altitude of 1,240 m

You will see the ancient Gumbez of the legendary fabulous hero Manas, the loess canyons of the Echkilyu-Too Mt. Range, the monumental dam of the Kirov Water Reservoir, the powerful bulk of the Talas Range and beautiful endemic flowers.

   

14.00  Dinner in the mountains or at the café

Species of flowers:

  1. Korolkowia sewerzowii – Aktash Mt. Range
  2. Tulipa kolpakowskiana – Talas Valley
  3. Tulipa ostrowskiana – Talas Valley
  4. Allium karataviense – Aktash Mt. Range
  5. Corydalis ainae – Aktash Mt. Range
  6. Eremurus lactiflorus –  Aktash Mt. Range, Echkilyu-Too Mt. Range                                                                                                                                                        

8.  Gumbez Manas. The architectural monument of the Middle Asia. This building is known among the people and in scientific literature as the "Mausoleum of Manas ". However, according to the inscription on the wall of the building, it is the tomb of the daughter of the rich Chagatai emir .                                                                                                                        

20.00  Supper and hotel accommodation (Talas town)

5 Day

8.00 Breakfast in hotel (Talas town)

10.00 After breakfast –  trip from Talas town to the Toktogul town through of Otmyok Pass at an altitude of 3,340 m, Alabel Pass at an altitude of 3,175 m and Chychkan Gorge at an altitude from 2,800 down to 890 m

You will see a beautiful mountain gorges with a fast-flowing rivers. Endemic coniferous juniper trees and various flowers grow on the steep slopes. Birches, Tien Shan spruces and Semyonov fir grow along the banks of the river with crystal   clear water. Many flowers you will see also

   

14.00  Dinner in the mountains or at the café

Species of flowers:

  1. Colchicum kesselringii – Chychkan River gorge
  2. Gagea liotardii – Chychkan River gorge
  3. Colchicum luteum – Chychkan River gorge
  4. Corydalis glaucescens – Chychkan River gorge
  5. Corydalis ledebouriana – Chychkan River gorge
  6. Tulipa dasystemon – Chychkan River gorge
  7. Tulipa turkestanica  – Uzun-Akhmat River valley                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  

20.00  Supper and hotel accommodation (Toktogul town)

6 Day

8.00 Breakfast in hotel (Toktogul)

8.00 After breakfast –  trip from Toktogul town to Karakul town through of southern coast of the Toktogul Water Reservoir at an altitude of 990 m, Torkent River valley at an altitude from 980 up to 1,080 m, Kok-Bel Pass at an altitude from 1,420 up to 2,190 m, and Karasu River gorge at an altitude from 1.420 up to 930 m

You will see a gigantic bowl of the Ketmen-Tyube Depression, in which there is one of the largest reservoirs in Middle Asia on the Naryn River. You will drive along the steep loess slopes to the Kok-Bel Pass, which translates as a blue Pass. And indeed the screes, rocks and slopes in this place are blue, pink, white and violet color, and also you will see the beautiful valley of the Karasu River.   Everywhere, during the whole trip you will see many kinds of flowering plants.

   

14.00 Dinner at the café

Species of flowers:

  1. Tulipa tetraphylla – southern coast of the Toktogul reservoir
  2. Tulipa toktogulica  – southern coast of the Toktogul reservoir
  3. Juno graeberiana  – Ferghana Mt. Range
  4. Eremurus fuscus  – Ferghana Mt. Range
  5. Allium karataviense  – Karasu River gorge
  6. Allium dodecadontum  – Karasu River gorge

20.00  Supper and hotel accommodation (Karakul town)

7 Day

8.00 Breakfast at the cafe

8.00 After breakfast –  trip from Karakul town to Shamaldysai village through Naryn River canyon at an altitude from 930 down to 540 m

You will see a powerful rocky canyon, along the bottom of which the Naryn River of amazing turquoise color flows. In the side gorges you will find wonderful endemic flowering plants. There are petroglyphs on the rocks in one of the gorges

   

14.00  Dinner in the mountains or at the cafe                                                                                                                                                    

Species of flowers:

  1. Eremurus fuscus  – Naryn River canyon
  2. Iris songarica – Naryn River canyon, – Kepeli Mt. Range
  3. Glaucium elegans – Naryn River canyon
  4. Glaucium fimbrilligerum – Naryn River canyon
  5. Astragalus lorinserianus – Naryn River canyon
  6. Allium karataviense  – Naryn River canyon
  7. Allium oreoscordum – Naryn River canyon
  8. Louiseania ulmifolia – Naryn River canyon
  9. Petroglyphs  – Naryn Canyon (Ryazansai)

20.00  Supper at the cafe and hotel accommodation (Shamaldysai village)

8 Day

8.00 Breakfast in hotel (Shamaldysai village)

9.00  After breakfast - departure from the village of Shamaldysai to the Toktogul town with a stop at the Bozbu-Too Mt. Range at an altitude of 750 m and the Kepeli Mt. Range at an altitude of 700 m and then a ride along the Naryn River canyon, the Kok-Bel pass and the southern coast of the Toktogul reservoir

You will see bright red slopes and gray slabs of rocks of the Kepeli Range, the former coast of the ancient Tethys Sea. Fanciful and colorful carved loess rocks of the Bozbu-Too Range and unusual and beautiful flowering plants.                                                                                                                                                                    

14.00 Dinner in the mountains or at the cafe

Species of flowers:

  1. Hulthemia persica – Kepeli Mt. Range
  2. Pseudosedum ferganense  – Kepeli Mt. Range
  3. Iris songarica – Naryn Canyon, – Kepeli Mt. Range
  4. Eremurus fuscus  – Naryn River canyon
  5. Glaucium elegans – Naryn River canyon
  6. Glaucium fimbrilligerum – Naryn River canyon
  7.  Astragalus lorinserianus – Naryn River canyon
  8. Allium karataviense  – Naryn River canyon
  9. Allium oreoscordum – Naryn River canyon
  10. Allium dodecadontum  – Karasu River gorge
  11. Tulipa tetraphylla – southern coast of the Toktogul reservoir

20.00  Supper accommodation and overnight on the Toktogul town

9 Day

8.00 Breakfast in hotel (Toktogul town)

9.00 After breakfast –  trip from the Toktogul town to the Bishkek town through of Chychkan River gorge, Alabel Pass, Suusamyr Valley and Teo-Ashuu Pass                                                                                                                                                                    

14.00 Dinner in the mountains or at the cafe

Species of flowers:

  1. Colchicum luteum  – Chichkan River gorge
  2. Tulipa dasystemon  – Suusamyr Valley
  3. Colchicum kesselringii  – Suusamyr Valley
  4. Iridodictium kolpakovskianum  – Suusamyr Valley
  5. Corydalis ledebouriana  – Suusamyr Valley
  6. Tulipa tetraphylla – Suusamyr Valley
  7. Chorispora sibirica – Suusamyr Valley
  8. Chorispora bungeana – Suusamyr Valley

20.00  Supper and hotel accommodation in Bishkek town

10 Day

9.00  Breakfast in hotel (Bishkek)                                                                                                                                        

10.00 After breakfast Bishkek city tour – Historical Museum , Oriental Bazaar  (Market), Tsum (souvenirs)

14.00  Dinner at the Ethnographic café “ Supara”

20.00  Supper at the cafe and hotel accommodation (Bishkek)

11 Day

8.00 Breakfast in hotel (Bishkek)

Departure from airport of Bishkek town

Price for a group of 10 persons

Duration of round of 10 days

The price for one person 160 $ a day

The price for one person for all round - 1600 $

Prepayment - $ 200  per person

This amount includes the following services:

  1. Mercedes-Benz bus - sprinter with driver
  2. payment for accommodation in hotels
  3. three meals a day, excluding alcoholic drinks
  4. services of an interpreter and guide