Zaliv Kol’uovka

We finally left Karakol and took a marshrutka to our Yurt Camp for the night, located on the southern side of Issy-Kul Lake. The information we'd been given about the marshrutka timetable was out of date, and we made it onto a marshrutka just as it was leaving Karakol. The road along the south of Issy-Kul was in much worse condition than the north, which made for a very bumpy and uncomfortable ride. This is, luckily, one of our last marshrutka rides for a while! We arrived and checked into our yurt, which had proper beds and a nice sitting area on the floor. We spent the afternoon at the nearby beach and reading in our yurt. We feel like we can now properly tick off sleeping in a yurt from our bucketlist (the mini yurt on the Ala-Kul trek didn't feel like it lived up to our expectations). The next morning, we had an eagle hunting demonstration booked. It was very cool to hold and see the golden eagles up close, and watch them as they hunt.Read more