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The Pearl of Tien Shan

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Duration: 8 days
Period: July - August
Grade: Medium
Min Group: 8 Persons
Weather conditions:  Highlands: daytime air temperature +18.+24° C (max +34° C), nighttime +3.+11° C (ground frost occur).
Rains are short and lavish.

Day 1
Arrive Almaty. Transfer to hotel. Transfer to Almarasan Gorge. Start trekking. Ascent along the forest path - 5 hours.
Camp in the forest (2700 m).
Day 2
Ascent along Prokhodnaya River to Almaty Pass - 5 hours.
Camp on the river bank (3300 m).
Day 3
Cross over Almaty Pass (3599 m) - 3 hours.
Descend to Valley of Chong-Kemin River - 3 hours.
Camp on the bank of the Tuyuk-Almaty River (2820 m).
Day 4
Trek along the Valley of Chong-Kemin River to the junction of Aksu and Zhasyk-Kol Rivers - 6 hours. Camp (2995 m).
Day 5
Trek to Zhasyk-Kol Lake (2970 m) and passing to junction of Western and Eastern Aksu Rivers - 5 hours. Camp (3200 m).
Day 6
Trek along Aksu glacier to Aksu Pass (4052 m) - 3 hours. Cross over the pass - 2 hours. Descent to Valley of Chong-Aksu River - 2 hours. Camp (3350 m).
Day 7
Trek along Chong-Aksu River - 5 hours. Transfer to Issyk Kul Lake (1608m). Picnic on the lakeshore - 2 hours. Transfer to Almaty (580 km) - 8 hours. Hotel.
Day 8 Transfer to airport. Fly home.

WHAT TO BRING:
We recommend you to bring the following:
  • Comfortable sport clothes and shoes
  • Shorts and T-shirts for hot days
  • Waterproofs for rainy days
  • Warm jacket for cold days
  • Sunglasses, hat and sun block cream
  • Four-season sleeping bag and sleeping mad
  • Good trekking boots
  • Towels and toiletry
  • Camera: still and video
  • River crossing sandals
  • Cash for most of the payment (credit cards are accepted only in some places)
THE TOUR COST COVERS:
  • Invitation and visa support
  • Meeting and seeing off at the Almaty Airport
  • All transfers
  • Interpreter's service
  • Hotel accommodation on double basis hotel in Almaty
  • Sightseeing tour in Almaty (3 hours)
  • Registration in the local police office
  • Insurance of local staff
  • Reconfirmation of air-tickets
  • Entrance fee for the border region
  • Ecological duties
  • Guide
  • Support team service
  • Cook
  • Three meals a day
  • Kitchen-tent
  • Trekking tent for 2 persons on the route
  • Toilet-tent
  • Carrying of the luggage by horses
  • Evacuation of debris from camps
  • Medical aid
THE TOUR COST DOES NOT COVER:
  • Rescue works (a copy of insurance policy required as helicopter rescue can be in emergency situations)
  • Changing of date of departure from Almaty by international airlines
  • Additional meal and night in a hotel of Almat
KanTengri Expeditions
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050010, Almaty Kazakhstan
Tel: +7 (727) 2910200, 2910880
Fax: +7 (727) 2912010
E-mail: info@kantengri.kz


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