welcome to kyrgyzstan this place is incredible and there is so much to see and do here that it is
very very hard to sum it up in a single video but i will try my best whether you want to
explore these beautiful rugged mountain scapes or you want to spend a day chilling at the beach
or you want to do horse riding you want to eat a lot of great food you can do it all here and
i will show you some of my favorite things to do there are no particular order so enjoy
if you have not seen my kyrgyzstan travel guide i would definitely recommend you
check that before continuing with this video because it's tons of information
there that's really really important and you should know that before you actually
start planning your visit to this country so check that out and then we continue with the video
just because kyrgyzstan is landlocked does not mean you cannot do water sports here
and if you are an adrenaline junkie like me there's plenty to do here that's really exciting
unfortunately during my visit the company that offers paragliding in karakol was closed
so i had to make do with kayaking which was really really fun
if you want to do paragliding kayaking or any other water sports even jet ski
i would recommend checking out karakol which is also called the adventure capital of kyrgyzstan
issyk kul lake has some beautiful beaches around it and you can find so much stuff to do whether
it is partying or it is just relaxing on a beach it is the perfect spot for it
you have towns like cholpin ata which are really good if you are into partying and that
fun vibrant young life but if you want more of a nice quiet beach life i would recommend kaji say
i absolutely love the place and the fact that i got the entire beach to myself
miles and miles of it was amazing and i loved how clean and clear the water was absolutely fantastic
another experience not to miss in kyrgyzstan is archery it's called jia and while the european
tradition of archery actually comes from wars theirs mainly comes from hunting and
horseback hunting so it's a little different but you know obviously it remains the same so
things have evolved it used to be horns and intestines but now it's wood and string
and these are obviously the same but it's completely different
i'm obviously really rubbish at it it only took seven attempts to finally hit the board
you will see but it's quite a hard experience and you get to see you know how different it is
it's actually quite interesting how much you have to pull like it takes a lot of effort to actually
pull it a little bit further definitely recommend it and usually comes with eagle hunting so you
don't really need to book it separately yes the first one actually hit the board
i am with the eagle her name is soleka and this is one of the experiences i've been dreaming of for
quite some time i'd never seen an eagle this close to me and they are just magnificent they're really
beautiful and they kept like you know their babies they train them they feed them so much every day
and they keep them for about 20 years and then they're sort of let go freely in there i didn't
know that the eagles actually live up to 60 70 years so beautiful and so scary at the same time
if you want to book this you'll have to work with someone who's a certified
eagle man because you could go with someone who's amateur but they don't really take care of
eagles so i definitely recommend booking like a proper experience so if you want to do this
they will show you how they hunt and train them how to hunt and also how they just call them and
apparently they can come as far as five kilometers away which is crazy but they're beautiful
and so massive and magnificent and amazed and scared at the same time welcome to kyrgyzstan
there are plenty of hot springs around kyrgyzstan but the ones that i absolutely
loved are the altyn arashan springs actually the name altyn arashan literally means golden springs
this is the surprise of altyn arashan the hot spring
these springs are a little bit of a secret because there is no
signage of where you find these and you need to go with someone
local to show you where they are but it is an absolutely epic experience
i absolutely love a good hike especially in nature and kyrgyzstan is just the perfect place for that
there's so many places you can go hiking and with so many mountains around
you're never far from a good hike some of my favorite places to hike
are ala archa national park which was amazing although a bit cold
the second one was kegeti gorge and hike all the way up to kol tor lake and the third one
without a doubt absolutely amazing the altyn arashan valley some raspberries on the way
although the ending part is going all the way up to
ala kul lake which is quite difficult i didn't do that part
whoa
kyrgyzstan has so many horses that i have never seen anywhere before it was absolutely amazing
because these animals are just so majestic elegant and beautiful they like it if you
scratch their heads and i love the fact that you're never far from a horse in kyrgyzstan
i'm quite embarrassed to admit that i was actually quite scared to ride the horses
but this is something that i absolutely had to do and it went amazing
although you can absolutely ride a horse anywhere in kyrgyzstan my
favorite spot for this was song kul lake the fact that i was being steered by a nine-year-old boy
actually gave me a lot of courage and the rest of the ride went absolutely amazing
the shores of song kul lake are just the perfect spot for a beautiful horse ride
food in kyrgyzstan is actually really good and quite varied but having a pilaf like a proper
pilaf is an experience on its own and you should definitely have it i would recommend uzgan pilaf
or holiday pilaf but be careful it does come with horse sausages which are actually quite delicious
for a proper pilaf experience you will need to order this in advance about two
to three hours at least and it is cooked for up to like three and a
half kilos so you will have to take some of that back with you or share around
it's entirely up to you but this is one experience that i absolutely adored and loved
there are few things i really need you to know before you come to a banya so one you need to be
comfortable with some level of nudity because you will be naked in there especially if you want a
scrub or a massage which i highly highly recommend while it's not so fun while doing it you feel
really really relaxed like the lady really dug in and i just feel so calm now the sauna is really
hot but do bring your own shots if you want to go like swimming there's a really cold water pool
and you need to buy your own leaves um if you want to do the thing in the sauna so
this is one experience it's very local it's a very cultural thing and it's this is more like
a socializing thing for these people than you know a visit to a spa so you will see people you know
shaving their pubes brushing their teeth shaving their beards everything so get ready for that
welcome to my yurt so how does it work with this interesting amazing place that i've never seen
before but it's really interesting to learn a few things about it number one like i said before it's
really really important for kyrgyz people so it's part of their culture it's part of the routine
and since most of them lived nomadic lives it was a really important part of their summer activities
life everything so as you see around me it's quite fancy it's beautiful one family used
to own one yurt and it comes in three parts actually so these are collapsible uh the sides
and actually they don't use any nails they use some cowhide instead of nails and these
are collapsible so when they need to pack it it's quite easy to do that
so what do you think of these top 10 things to do in kyrgyzstan
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