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Felt workshop and culture in Kyrgyzstan
Dates: June 1 - June 15, July 3 - July 17 and August 13 – August 27, 2010
Price: 1.195 euro p.p.
Number of participants: min. 4
Meet the culture and the life of the Kyrgyz nomads. Sleep in a yurt, the felt house of the shepherds. In a number of villages you visit little workshops, where felt is manufactured. You will also make felt yourself and create a small shirdak and an alakiis, the traditional carpets.
Children will sing folksongs and play the traditional musical instruments. You can observe the preparation of kymys, the national drink that is made of mare milk.
In Bishkek, you will learn how to make embroidery on felt and you have an opportunity to visit museums and art galleries and if there are enough participants, you will enjoy the concert of a folklore-band.
Still you will find plenty of time to enjoy the magnificent nature, to undertake nearly endless walks. If you like you can explore a bit of Kyrgyzstan riding on horseback or on a camel or you can go for a swim in a warm and dense lake.
You will visit shepherds and their families, who go to summer pastures high in the mountains with their cattle.
 In Bishkek you stay in an unpretentious but nice hotel, on the countryside you live in yurt camps and B&B, where a local family takes care of you.
During the complete journey an English speaking interpreter is at your service.
This journey is suitable for people who are interested in the nomadic way of life and the culture of the Kyrgyz people. We expect you to be a little adventurous, to have an average physical condition and to find luxury unimportant.
Program (in note form):
| Day 1 |
Departure |
| Day 2 |
Arrival at Manas Airport, breakfast, free time, program starts with lunch. In the afternoon visit to museums and galleries, information on nomadic life. |
| Day 3 |
In the morning you have a workshop embroidery. In the afternoon visit Osh-bazaar and making a small felt souvenir |
| Day 4 |
From Bishkek to Ak-Sai (1.600m) at the Lake Issyk-Kul. Short stopover at the Balykchy bazaar. |
| Day 5 |
Day of rest in Ak-Sai, swimming, hiking. |
| Day 6 |
From Ak-Sai to Bokonbaevo. Instructions about felt making and start making own Alakijis at women workshop. Stay at B&B in Bokonbaevo |
| Day 7 |
In the morning: making own shirdak , afternoon visit to small, local museum |
| Day 8 |
From Bokonbaevo to yurt camp Temir-Kanat. |
| Day 9 |
Stay at Temir-Kanat. Hiking, horseback riding. |
| Day 10 |
From Temir-Kanat to yurt camp Tuura-Suu.( 2250m) Make acquaintance with Kyrgyz folksongs and instruments. |
| Day 11 |
Observe how chuij (grass mats) are made, visit village |
| Day 12 |
From Tuura-Suu to Kara-Talaa at the Lake Issyk-Kul (1.600m). Learn to spin wool with spinning top. Continue work on shirdak. |
| Day 13 |
From Kara-Talaa to Kochkor, center of felt production. In the afternoon back to Bishkek. Leisure time. |
| Day 14 |
Free day for shopping etc. lunch not included |
| Day 15 |
Transfer to Manas Airport. Goodbye to Kyrgyzstan. |
The price includes everything from arrival at the airport till departure, except the flight, visa and alcoholic beverages. If you book for 4 persons or more, we offer 5% discount.
Because of unforeseen circumstances, it might be necessary to make small changes in the program. We ask for your understanding.
In case there are less then 4 participants for this tour, you are requested to pay an additional 100 euro p.p. to make this tour individually or with a small group.
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This year again we offer thematic and adventurous programs. These tours are exclusively organised by Ecotour and offer a good impression of our way of life. This year we offer several new thematic tours. In a thematic tour, the leading theme is a specific activity, like f.i. bird watching or a special aspect of our culture like felt making of festivals. New is a tour in which legends and tales are the central theme, a festival tour and a drawing and painting tour accompanied by a Dutch art teacher. In spring, when all fruit trees are blooming, we organise a blossom tour in the Talas region and around lake Issuk-Kol.
Some of our guests come to Kyrgyzstan again for these special tours with their friends or family members and every time discover new aspects of Kyrgyzstan
The Kyrgyz have not forgotten that for centuries the horse was the most precious animal in their nomadic lives. Even these days many families consider horses still very important this makes Kyrgyzstan supremely suitable for horse riding. Ecotour offers a great variety of adventures tours. On foot, horseback or by bicycle you can discover the mountains of Tian-Shan. There are programs for 2 or 3 weeks, some more difficult then the others. Our tours are not only for small groups but several tours can also be done individually.
As most of our yurt camps in the mountains are situated above 2000 m. weather can change a couple times a day. Therefore, even in summer it is a necessity to bring warm clothes and rain gear.
Our cooks have been trained to cope with different diets. Even if you need to have gluten free meals, this is possible at several of our tours.
Trekking and horse riding tours are the perfect way to see the ranges of Tian-Shan mountains and the life of the Kyrgyz.
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