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<\/a>There is a lake up Kok-Moinok Gorge, so that should give you incentive to climb, but the climb is not easy.\u00a0 When I was there late last spring the water was pretty high in the stream and it looked like it would require multiple crossings.\u00a0 The trail toward the lake looked pretty thin, even down at the bottom, so it might be a real job to get up that high.\u00a0 However, even if you stay down in the lower parts of the gorge, there are beautiful places for a picnic, or even an overnight camping trip, some beautiful wildflowers, and some interesting birds, as well.\u00a0 You can be sure that I\u2019ll make another attempt at the lake next time I\u2019m in Kyrgyzstan.<\/p>\nKok-Moinok Gorge is another of the fantastic day trips to the mountains from Bishkek.\u00a0 It\u2019s the next gorge east of Issyk Ata, and another beauty, with a rushing river flowing down through rough terrain with some forestation and scattered wildflowers.\u00a0 It\u2019s another one, though, that I did not have time to explore well, so I\u2019ll […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,61,60,58,63,52,57,59],"tags":[167,172,171,169,173,166,23,168],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2613"}],"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=2613"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2620,"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2613\/revisions\/2620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>Getting to Kok-Moinok is easy.\u00a0 On the attached .gdb file<\/a> I\u2019ve included both the upper and lower routes (which are much the same as the routes to Issyk Ata described in my write-up on the Burana Tower).\u00a0 In this case, the lower route is clearly much shorter.\u00a0 But the upper route is always more rewarding.\u00a0 The best compromise is to make it a loop drive.\u00a0 You might want to stop at the fish farm for lunch or dinner and possibly throw in a short trip to Issyk Ata while on the high road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"