{"id":1830,"date":"2011-06-12T16:54:54","date_gmt":"2011-06-12T10:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/?p=1830"},"modified":"2011-06-12T19:14:53","modified_gmt":"2011-06-12T13:14:53","slug":"ak-suu-gorge-day-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/2011\/06\/12\/ak-suu-gorge-day-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"Ak Suu Gorge Day Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ak Suu Gorge Vista<\/p><\/div>\n

This is a nice day trip from Bishkek into the Ala Too Mountains.\u00a0 This one is a little further down the road from Sokuluk, but further has its advantages.\u00a0 It definitely doesn\u2019t feel as \u201ctrampled\u201d as some of the closer canyons.<\/p>\n

Attached is a .gdb file<\/a> you can use with your GPS or open in Google Earth to get a better look at the route.\u00a0 Take a look at the pages on using a GPS in Kyrgyzstan<\/a> and on using .gdb files with Google Earth<\/a> for some ideas.\u00a0 I\u2019ve also input the whole route into OpenStreetMap<\/a>, so if you use the OSM implementation on your GPS, you can just use the \u201cfollow road\u201d option to create your own route.<\/p>\n

The route is pretty simple.\u00a0 Just head out of Bishkek on M39 (the road to Osh, or Taras, in Kazakhstan).\u00a0 About 30 miles down the road (counting from the old DCMR at Panfilova and Gorkova), you make a left.\u00a0 The turnoff is about 2 miles after you leave the town of Belovodskoye.\u00a0 From there on out it is straight up the road.<\/p>\n

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Bishkek to Ak Suu Gorge<\/p><\/div>\n

Shortly after the end of the pavement there is a spur on the left that takes you up to a small waterfall with some picnic spots.\u00a0 (And my statement about this canyon being \u201cless trampled\u201d doesn\u2019t really apply to this area.)<\/p>\n

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Ak Suu River, at the end of the road<\/p><\/div>\n

As the map shows, further on there is a turnoff to the left which takes you up to a high Jailoo.\u00a0 We did not go all the way up there, so the map is incomplete on that route.\u00a0 The map is complete on the main canyon.\u00a0 We came to a bridge at the end which is out, so that is as far as the car goes.<\/p>\n

There is some good undeveloped hiking to be had up the several gorges which lead off in different directions.\u00a0 The scenery, as throughout the Ala Too, is spectacular and varied.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve seen quite a few locals fishing the river.\u00a0 I figure that\u2019s gotta mean there are trout in there.<\/p>\n

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Ak Suu Gorge Map<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is a nice day trip from Bishkek into the Ala Too Mountains.\u00a0 This one is a little further down the road from Sokuluk, but further has its advantages.\u00a0 It definitely doesn\u2019t feel as \u201ctrampled\u201d as some of the closer canyons. Attached is a .gdb file you can use with your GPS or open in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,61,60,58,52,57,59],"tags":[167,172,62,171,169,166,168,170],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1830"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1851,"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830\/revisions\/1851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}