Why this ride
A remote mixed-surface corridor with strong terrain and adventure-riding value. It links naturally to Song Kol high-altitude lake.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Song Kol Road
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 237 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 4 h 52
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
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Editorial context
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Access context
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Seasonal context
Jun-Sep
Scenic road chapters
Kyrgyzstan Song Kol Route
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For 66 km this is Kyrgyzstan Song Kol Route, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Chapter facts
- Length
- 66 km
- Named road
- Kyrgyzstan Song Kol Route
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Kochkor
Kochkor is a flat, windy, high-valley town at roughly eighteen hundred metres in Kyrgyzstan's Naryn region, and it is where riders turn from the pavement to the dirt. It sits in a broad valley between the Kyrgyz Ala-Too and the Kyoktu range, with sheep and horses in the fields around it and the long line of the mountains marked by snow in all but the hottest months. About two hundred kilometres from Bishkek, it is the usual gateway to Song-Kol, a high alpine lake at over three thousand metres where herders bring their flocks in summer.
Read the complete Kochkor write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
Kochkor sits at 0 km, early in the day. Next is Song Kol.
2. Song Kol
Song Kol is a lake at 3,000 metres, sitting in a high bowl of the Tian Shan like something left behind by the sky. Its name means last lake, or perhaps following lake; Kyrgyz speakers give different readings. It lies in Naryn province, far from any town, and for four months a year it is the summer pasture of herders who bring their sheep, horses and yaks up from the valleys. Their yurts, white domes against a green and brown landscape, are the main architecture here, and the main way a traveller stays.
Read the complete Song Kol write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
Song Kol comes up 76 km in. Next is Naryn.
3. Naryn
It is the capital of the province and the last real town of any size before the high pastures, a low, grey Soviet-era place of apartment blocks and a few older buildings, with brown hills rising on both sides and snowy peaks beyond. Winters are bitterly cold, sometimes thirty below, while summers are dry and bright.
Read the complete Naryn write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
237 km in you reach Naryn.
Recorded source links
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