Kyrgyzstan is a perfect place for you to experience a white water rafting. Our country is rich with many mountains rivers that are famous among rafters. You will surely have a wonderful time being there and you will get dozens exciting impressions. Rafting in Kyrgyzstan is a very popular activity. Take your chance - come for rafting to Kyrgyzstan!
The abundance of mountainous rivers and sunny days makes our country just perfect for this type of extreme activity and attracts fans of white water to Kyrgyzstan since the second half of the last century. Due to the unique nature of the republic, there are enough rivers to provide routes of all different categories of complexity approproiate for both experienced rafters and beginners.
There can be nothing more exciting than a rafting tour along mountain rivers. In Kyrgyzstan, the best rivers for this type of travel are the Chu, Chon-Kemin, Kekemeren, Chatkal, and Naryn rivers. Everything that can make your holiday remarkable is here...rivers quietly flowing through the beautiful landscape, and rapids that will take your breath away and excite even the most hardened extreme sports fans. The rafting season on these rivers varies from April to October. The level of complexity on the six-point scale mostly depending on the season, since the thawing of glaciers ensures a high level of water in the rivers; and in hot summer months the waterline may fluctuate each day. Therefore, for some rivers, the most admired time for water tours is the end of August, and September.
Commercial rafting can be good at Chui River flows at the altitude of 1,500m above sea level. The climate and temperature of the water makes up (15°-18°C) from June till mid-September means rafting can be done even without diving suits, and the complexity of obstacles does not exceed five points. The section of the river that passes through the Boom gorge is the national 'white water arena and a unique training site for the whole Central Asian region. It used to be one of the northern routes on the Great Silk Road in ancient times. Due to its location near the capital of the republic and communications development over the years, the popularity of rafting in the Bohom gorge is stably growing both among the locals and foreign guests.
Rafting as an extreme type of sports in the republic began to develop a quarter of century ago. Its future fate rested upon the enthusiasm of some junior rowing league coaches. In 1992 rafting has adopted a commercial direction having received the status of strategic objective for the development of tourism in Kyrgyzstan.
The Chatkal, Kekemeren, Naryn rivers were the most popular rivers during the Soviet times.. The Chatkal river was among the five most popular rivers in the USSR. Most frequently, during August and September, there used to be 60 or 70 tourist groups here. For the last few years, one-or two-day tours on the rivers Chu and Chon-Kemin have gained the same popularity.