It is a sunny morning. No cloud appears in the sky. Today we want to explore the Base Camp at Lenin Peak. We traverse the wide Alay Valley and cross the Kyzyl-Suu River before reaching a green, hilly landscape in the south of the valley. The road, or better said the gravel road, winds uphill […]
From the Kyzylart Pass to Sary-Mogol
Kyzylart Pass At the top of the Kyzylart Pass at 4280 m above sea level, we leave Tajikistan and enter Kyrgyzstan. We have already left the border control behind us. We are on the way from Kara Kul, a lake in eastern Tajikistan to Osh in Kyrgyzstan. But before that, we want to explore the […]