After our little trip in the mountains, it was rime to see the other highlight of Kyrgyzstan: green hills.
So lets go and take a car from Karakol to Kochkor, from there we manage to organise a "tour": 3 days 2 night in the countryside around the Song Kol lake. I m not the biggest fan of tours but it s the only way to experience 3 days horse riding, which is, according to forums, suppoeed to be a great deal.
Lets go so with Debby, a british girl we met in Karakol and our guide Sergei, recommended by a french we met in Karakol also.
The country is slowly managing to develop tourism and as soon as as we started the tour, we could realize the tyrip we re about to make won t be a typical mass tourism tour...
We take our horse, and after a breif introduction of "how horse riding works" we go slowly through the plains and grass hills of this beautifull area. The weather is really nice, Sergei is very friendly. Good trip. All the way, nothing but hills, sometimes shepperds.... and nothing else.
Perfect, I wasn t expecting anything more....
After a few kilometers and gallop races , it s time for a rest at our first base camp at a local shepperd yurt...
The second day is pretty much the same, hills, gallop races... but after lunch, the sun suddently leaves us and heavy rain, and even hail, is now falling from the dark clouds...not to mention the thunder lights to scare our little horses.
We arrive at the second base camp all wet and freezed.. but sun is coming back at night just to let us take a few pics of our base camp next to the Song Kol lake.
The third day is not that exiting, we are taking a car to go back to Kochkor, four hourts ride trought the mountains, the snow, the temperatures drops down to zero....
Once arrived in Kochkor, Arnaud and I are taking a car back to Bishkek, and from there, another car for a night ride down to Osh to cross the border and go to Uzbekistan....where a 35ish degree temperature is waiting for us ....
The Song Kol Team ;-)
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