My friends, Dmitry Leshev and Natalya Yamkovaya, have returned from their winter Kyrgyzstan holidays. They spent two weeks on the beautiful ski resort of Kyrgyzstan – "Karakol" ski-base. This ski-base is being developing for the last 2-3 years and we can already see the real results of this improvement: new chair lifts, new buildings, new ski routes and wonderful service is appeared to be usual nowadays in this region.

Lots of people visited Karakol this winter time – almost all hotels and guest houses were booked in the New Year season. Local inhabitants are happy from one side – more money comes to region, but also they think that the region can be suffered from big crowds and from disrespectful attitude to nature, which is very wild and beautiful in Kyrgyzstan.

What can offer "Karakol" ski-base? A lot. Just look at the features:

• Ski route distances: from 400m to 3.5km
• Total distance of all routes: more than 20km
• The upper point of ski routes: 3040m
• Minimal slopes degree 7%
• Maximal slopes degree 53%
• Duration of season: from November till May
  

On-place features also include: helicopter pad, hotel, cottages, restaurant, sauna, billiard, ping-pong, computer room.

There is a hiring room for skis, snowboards, sledges is also there. 5 lifts with one chairs equipped are serving the slopes and routes. Even the sledges route is equipped with lift.

So, after the trip of my friends and their pictures of Karakol ski-base I’m going to visit this unique resort as soon as possible. Of course it depends on my work and annual holidays, but I will try to find 1-2 weeks in the coming years. Moreover the prices for such a trip for me are lower if compare with other closest good skiing resorts around, of course if you know where to go and how to go to Karakol (and I am not the last in the queue of experienced travelers to Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan).

Please find the best photographs of Karakol ski-base below and if you have any comments or words to say – just .

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Road exit from Boomskiy valley. Winter way Bishkek-Karakol.	Winter Issyk-Kul Lake from the road Bishkek - Karakol	Ski-Base Karakol. Main chair lift	Winter Issyk-Kul Lake, Karakol town from ski route
The entrance to Karakol valley. Winter view from ski-base "Karakol"	Dima and Natalia at 2650m altitude.	Chair lift at the backgroud of Karakol valley	The main ski route of base Karakol
One more view of ski route of Karakol ski-base	View of the highest point of ski-base routes. Panorama 3040m.	View down to ski route from 2750m altitude	Winter Karakol gorge and peak Karakol from ski-base
Down there - road and frozen Karakol river	Chair lift at the way after 2650m	Picture of Karakol Ski-base. Chair lift and Issyk-Kul Lake	Peak Prjevalsky, Peak Karakol and gorge. Winter view from ski-base
Chair lift. The start of the way.	Issyk-Kul Lake in winter. View from ski-base Karakol	One more landscape from 2650m	Rest place on the way of chair lift
Nataly at the ski route. Karakol	Dima and Anton at the background of Karakol valley mountains	Peak Prjevalsky and ski routes view from Karakol town	Map scheme of ski routes. Karakol ski-base
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