Lakes

Tourists, before starting to travel around Kyrgyzstan with car rent service, understand that this is a high-mountainous country, with many mountain lakes that they will visit during the tour. Here, on the territory of Kyrgyzstan, you can find about 2000 unique lakes. Traveling around Kyrgyzstan, guests of the country can see that the lakes can mainly be located at an altitude of 2500-4000 m above sea level. In addition, during the tour with rented the car service exploring the lakes, foreigners understand that some of them appeared because of melting glaciers. Issyk Kul, Son Kul and Chatyr Kul are the largest and most popular lakes in Kyrgyzstan.

In order to awaken your interest in the country's lakes, our team will tell you a little about the largest of them in brief. Therefore, the most famous lake in Kyrgyzstan as well as one of the deepest lakes in the world is Issyk Kul located at an altitude of 1600m. Foreigners visiting the territory of the lake understand that it is located in the heart of the Tien Shan Mountains and is called the pearl of the country. It is important to know that Issyk Kul never freezes, even as winter, and therefore it has such a name that translated from Kyrgyz means “warm lake”. Also, exploring Issyk Kul during the tour with car rent service, travelers can see the second most transparent lake, second only to Baikal among all the lakes in the world. Son Kul Lake, another inspiring tourist destination, is located at an altitude of 3,016 meters above sea level. The territory of the lake has a surprisingly virgin nature, green summer pastures and valleys along which travelers can walk for pleasure. The waters of the Kajyrty and Naryn rivers feed this high-mountainous lake in Kyrgyzstan. The lake of glacial origin, which is located at an altitude of 3530 m above sea level along the Chinese border of Torugart, is called Chatyr Kul. Going to Kyrgyzstan to travel, tourists will learn that there is an amazing lake Merzbacher from the genus of "disappearing lakes", which appears and disappears every summer. One of the most beautiful lakes in Kyrgyzstan is the unique Sary Chelek. The nature on the territory of the lake is virgin, which attracts with dense forest, streams on the mountain slopes, fresh air and clear water. By the way, tourists should be informed that this is the territory of a biosphere reserve, so the lake is strictly under control.