Day tours

1 900 m

A wide green valley 40 minutes from the city. Five kilometres of river trail, wild strawberries and almost no one else.

1 800 m

Waterfall, suspension bridge, chairlift and zipline in one valley — the most varied day out near Bishkek.

800 — 1 800 m

A fifteen-metre waterfall that runs all year, and the thousand-year-old minaret left over from a vanished Silk Road capital.

1 609 m

Red clay canyons, lunch by the water and an afternoon on the shore of a lake that never freezes.

1 100 m

Class 2–4 water through the Boom Gorge, then an afternoon at the Hawaii resort to dry off.

300 or 1 000 m of flight

A tandem flight over the Chui valley, twenty minutes from the city. Five minutes low, or forty from a thousand metres.

2 100 m

A spruce gorge 40 minutes from Bishkek. An easy riverside walk, or an hour of climbing to the Broken Heart viewpoint.

2 700 m

A turquoise lake above the tree line. Ten kilometres of forest trail each way, and complete quiet at the top.