Kyrgyzstan ski touring in Babash Ata from Arslanbob

Transfer to the hotel to rest until noon. The French guide will check your equipment and give a briefing on the coming week! After lunch, transfer to Arslanbob by minibus, dinner at a local restaurant en route. In the center of the charming village of Arslanbob, we will take 4x4s to reach our accommodation with a dinner stop in a typical café. Let’s go for a good night’s sleep with the locals to be as fresh as the next day!

Transfer: minibus (180km / 3-4h) and 4×4.

Meals included this day:  Breakfast – lunch – dinner.

Accommodation included this day: 3-star hotel then inhabitant.

After the safety tests and gear adjustments, hike on the first ridges behind the village to get up and see the possibilities of the week. We are at the foot of the magnificent Babash Ata chain with its eponymous peak peaking at 4427m.

Meal in the restaurant in the village center. Superb local address, very good soups and kebabs. Return home for a relaxation and shower session. Dinner with the locals.

D + 900 / -900m

Meals included this day: Breakfast – lunch – dinner

Accommodation included today:  Homestay

Hike through the walnut plantations to get beautiful slopes on the first ridges behind the village. Lunch at the village restaurant, we take the time to wander, we do like the locals: we drink tea watching the time go by … it’s good to live there anyway! Same story after the session of the day, relaxation and dinner on the program for tonight.

D + 900 / -900m

Meals included this day: Breakfast – lunch – dinner

Accommodation included today:  Homestay

The possibilities are numerous, and following the identification of the first days, you will choose together the terrain to explore and ski! Children who go to school throw hello when they see us. Another day to enjoy wild landscapes and quality ski touring …

D + 1000 / -1000m

Meals included this day: Breakfast – lunch – dinner

Accommodation included today:  Homestay

We leave on one of the other slopes to seek a point of view that we would not have explored. Cows, donkeys, sometimes block our way.

D +800 to 1000 / -800 to 1000m

Meals included this day: Breakfast – picnic – dinner

Accommodation included today: Homestay

We leave early in the morning for a rustic but cozy alpine chalet for the next 2 days!

Perched at 2000m, a local team takes care of the logistics, cooking, sleeping arrangements. Absolutely unique setting !! Hike to the summit or surrounding pass. Back to the “camps” where we will have free time to redo the world (once more), meal and night. This night in camp can be moved in the program depending on the weather conditions at the time.

D + 800 / -800m

Meals included this day: Breakfast – picnic – dinner

Accommodation included today:  Alpine chalet

If conditions allow, there is now an opportunity to climb to the Surok peak (marmot in French) at 2500m. Descent to Arslanbob for showering and relaxation. After a good lunch, departure for Osh, a city known for its silk production. We take advantage of the afternoon to take a last beautiful dip in the Kyrghyz culture, with en route, the visit of the Ouzghen minaret and Osh, if we have time, an excursion to the sacred mountain of Suleiman. The latter emerges from the ground and dominates the city … Meals and overnight in Osh.

D + 600 / -600m

Meals included this day: Breakfast – picnic – dinner

Accommodation included today:  3-star hotel

It’s time to say goodbye! Transfer to the airport. This immersion, this village, and these people will have changed you!

Return flight.

Meals included this day: Breakfast

Transfer: minibus, about 45 min