Lake Issyk-Kul, Kyrgyzstan

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Lake Issyk-Kul, at 182 km long and 58 km wide the largest of seven major lakes in Kyrgyzstan, is a significant blue spot on any world map. The expanse of Issyk-Kul resembles an ocean until the morning fog lifts, revealing the fringe of snowy peaks of the Terskei Alatau and the Kungei Alatau, which dominate the lake. Issyk-Kul has no outlet.

This mountain-locked pool is only lightly salinated, but it doesn't freeze in winter, in spite of the 1,600 m elevation. Lake Issyk-Kul enjoys a pleasantly mild climate: +17 C is average for July on the lakeshore, while the temperature hovers around 0 C in winter.

It is a blue aquamarine in the silver frame of high mountains, covered with eternal snows. The most popular trekking tours (mild and hard) in the Issyk-Kul lake region, especially at the eastern end of the lake near by Karakol and the highest Peaks of Tien-Shan, introduce tourists with the magic beauty of mountain panoramas, the noise of fast rivers, the fury of a mountain stream with cool icy water, the turquoise surface of mountain lakes, the juicy greenery of alpine meadows in the frame of the inaccessible rocks, the snow in the middle of the summer, the racket of the wonderful waterfalls, glaciers with ice falls and flat areas where you can ski in July, various flora and fauna, numerous mineral springs.

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