In one place in the wood there is a big blockage from fir-tree trees.Īpproximately in 500 meters from the coast on a slope the extensive space settles down where there are no trees, probably, hundreds of trees were tumbled down in different directions from powerful blow. Under cover of the dense wood there are a lot of different berries: fragrant mountain raspberry, wild strawberry, an edible black honeysuckle, an endemic of Northern Tien Shan - blackcurrant of Linchevsky which pleasant smell is felt already for 10 - 15 meters from a plant.ĭifficulty of movement consists that through 5 kilometers it is necessary to overcome the rivers, it is necessary to make ascension on the steep slope (about 35 - 40 degrees), then the same descent. Without track in mountains to go very difficult, the zone of the wood manages to be overcome with an average speed of 1 km in 1 hour! In this fir grove under a thick layer of a moss there is permafrost! The similar phenomenon is not present anywhere in Zailiysky of Ala-Tau. The virgin forest which is designated on the card relic Chin-Turgen a fir grove begins with this place". From this place there is further a track which, through 600 - 800 meters disappears. Our way passes at first down the river Turgen, across the dirt road, before merge to the river Chin-Turgen. At the small settlement of Batan merge of two rivers: Kishi-Turgen and Turgen. The orographical characteristic in the top part approaches Issyk the gorge, crosses, it is possible to leave to Zailiysky Ala-Tau - to east part of peak Talgar.
This beautiful gorge is western in Turgen gorges. “As soon as man seeks to penetrate the secrets of nature - in which nothing is secret and it is but a question of seeing - he realizes that the simple produces the supernatural”įoreign Independent Tour in Central Asia.