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Spent two days on the tours, one to visit Ala-Kul Lake and another to visit Altyn-Arashan. On the first day, we had a fantastic guide who helped us to the lake, through many steep faces and several slightly dangerous portions of the hike. Halfway through, it started to hail and the muddy areas got really slippery; the guide's experience shone through and we managed to get ourselves back to safety after visiting the lake. On the second day, the same expert guide brought my friends to the Altyn-Arashan Hot Springs. I was feeling slightly under the weather after the first day, and requested for a Russian military jeep to bring me directly to the hot springs. I was most thankful for Timur, the manager, who made all the last-minute arrangements so that I could join my friends at the hot springs despite being unable to hike there. The road to the hot springs was incredibly bumpy and I was thankful to the driver for his superb driving and getting me to and back safely. Visit Karakol provides amazing services, and while there might be other agencies, I would definitely go back to them when (not if) I visit Karakol again!

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My wife, baby and I live in Kazakhstan and we took her parents to Kyrgyzstan to experience some beautiful scenery - we chose Visit Karakol as the options on their website seemed perfect for our needs. The one day Jeti-Oguz trip was excellent with our English-speaking guide Ibraim proving to be friendly, enthusiastic and passionate about his job, which meant all of us really enjoyed our day out in beautiful surroundings. Ibraim stayed in contact with me to help with my hobby of Lenin-hunting and also sent some fantastic photos of our trip to me. Sadly illness in our group meant we couldn't make our second trip to Altyn Arashan but I would certainly use Visit Karakol for this trip in future and I highly recommend them! Thank you Ibraim and Visit Karakol!

I contacted Visit Karakol for a hike out of the beaten track, and the its founder, Timur, organised for me a great itinerary in the valleys near Enilchek, showing me some marvellous landscapes and somer very interesting petroglyphs in a beautiful natural setting. Timur proved to be very knowledgeable of the geography, history and culture of the area. Also, he dealt very well with some unforeseen events (heavy snowfall) that threatened to compromise our hike. I strongly recommend Visit Karakol to anyone wishing to have a unique experience and travel in absolute safety.