Family friendly

2 100 m

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

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.

2 000 m

An hour and a half in the saddle through the meadows of Ala-Archa, with an instructor and a helmet.