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The Best Attractions In Karakol

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Karakol , formerly Przhevalsk, is the fourth largest city in Kyrgyzstan, near the eastern tip of Lake Issyk-Kul in Kyrgyzstan, about 150 kilometres from the Kyrgyzstan-China border and 380 kilometres from the capital Bishkek. It is the administrative capital of Issyk-Kul Region. Its area is 44 square kilometres , and its resident population was 66,294 in 2009 . To the north, on highway A363, is Tyup and to the southwest Jeti-Ögüz resort.
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  • 1. Issyk-Kul Lake Karakol
    Issyk-Kul is an endorheic lake in the northern Tian Shan mountains in eastern Kyrgyzstan. It is the seventh deepest lake in the world, the tenth largest lake in the world by volume , and the second largest saline lake after the Caspian Sea. Issyk-Kul means warm lake in the Kyrgyz language; although it is surrounded by snow-capped peaks, it never freezes.The lake is a Ramsar site of globally significant biodiversity and forms part of the Issyk-Kul Biosphere Reserve.
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  • 2. Altyn Arashan Karakol
    Altyn Arashan is a valley and mountain resort near Karakol and Issyk Kul Lake, northeastern Kyrgyzstan. It lies along the trekking route from Teploklyuchenka . It is a hot spring development set in an alpine valley, containing the 5020 metre Pik Palatka in its southern part. It is said to include three groups of nitric thermals springs on the right side of the Arashan River, 20 km southeast of Karakol mountain, situated in a picturesque forest landscape at an altitude of 2350-2435 metres. The resort has numerous wooden sheds which contain hot sulfurous pools to cure various ailments. The resort is set in a botanical research area called the Arashan State Nature Reserve which has about 20 snow leopards and several bears.
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  • 4. Dungan Mosque Karakol
    Dungan is a term used in territories of the former Soviet Union to refer to a group of Muslim people of Chinese origin. Turkic-speaking peoples in Xinjiang Province in northwestern China also refer to members of this ethnic group as Dungans. In both China and the former Soviet republics where they reside, however, members of this ethnic group call themselves Hui because Dungans are descendants of Hui that came to Central Asia. In the censuses of the now independent states of the former Soviet Union, the Dungans, who are enumerated separately from Chinese, can be found in Kazakhstan , Kyrgyzstan , and Russia .
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  • 5. Nikolai Przhevalsky Museum Karakol
    Nikolay Mikhaylovich Przhevalsky was a Russian geographer of Polish-Russian origin and a renowned explorer of Central and East Asia. Although he never reached his ultimate goal, the holy city of Lhasa in Tibet, he traveled through regions then unknown to the West, such as northern Tibet , Amdo and Dzungaria . He contributed significantly to European knowledge of Central Asian geography. He also described several species previously unknown to European science: Przewalski's horse, Przewalski's gazelle, and the Wild Bactrian camel, all of which are now endangered.
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  • 7. Ala Kul Lake Karakol
    The Terskey Alatau or Terskey Ala-Too is a mountain range in the Tian Shan mountains in Kyrgyzstan. It stretches south and southeast of Lake Issyk Kul, from the river Joon Aryk near Kochkor in the west to the far northeastern part of Kyrgyzstan. The length of the range is 354 km and the highest peak is Karakol Peak . Another high peak is Boris Yeltsin Peak .
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  • 9. Karakol Historical Museum Karakol
    Karakol , formerly Przhevalsk, is the fourth largest city in Kyrgyzstan, near the eastern tip of Lake Issyk-Kul in Kyrgyzstan, about 150 kilometres from the Kyrgyzstan-China border and 380 kilometres from the capital Bishkek. It is the administrative capital of Issyk-Kul Region. Its area is 44 square kilometres , and its resident population was 66,294 in 2009 . To the north, on highway A363, is Tyup and to the southwest Jeti-Ögüz resort.
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  • 11. Karakol Gorge Karakol
    Karakol , formerly Przhevalsk, is the fourth largest city in Kyrgyzstan, near the eastern tip of Lake Issyk-Kul in Kyrgyzstan, about 150 kilometres from the Kyrgyzstan-China border and 380 kilometres from the capital Bishkek. It is the administrative capital of Issyk-Kul Region. Its area is 44 square kilometres , and its resident population was 66,294 in 2009 . To the north, on highway A363, is Tyup and to the southwest Jeti-Ögüz resort.
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  • 15. Karakol Peak Karakol
    Karakol , formerly Przhevalsk, is the fourth largest city in Kyrgyzstan, near the eastern tip of Lake Issyk-Kul in Kyrgyzstan, about 150 kilometres from the Kyrgyzstan-China border and 380 kilometres from the capital Bishkek. It is the administrative capital of Issyk-Kul Region. Its area is 44 square kilometres , and its resident population was 66,294 in 2009 . To the north, on highway A363, is Tyup and to the southwest Jeti-Ögüz resort.
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