Issyk Ata Resort

DURATION: 1 day
TOTAL DISTANCE: 180 km
TREKKING ROUTE: 30 km
SEASON: year round
The backpackers will be transported to the start of the trekking trail by bus.

“There are about 130 springs in the area of the resort, half of which are thermal. The curing springs of Issyk Ata have been known for generations. One evidence of this is the image of Buddha on a giant bolder, which the archeologists suggest have been carved during the sasanid epoch - ca.II-VII. The first bathing building was erected here in 1892...A mile up the Issyk Ata, in a side valley called Marmara, there once was a marble mine. Four km further up the valley archa juniper woods start to emerge. There is a place in Issyk Ata where two large side river valleys- Chong Partak and Bala Partak converge in an eye-catching bubbling junction.“

- B. Marechek, Trails of Northern Kirghizia, 1968.