Suusamyr: Holiday Apartments and Holiday Homes

Suusamyr is a high-altitude valley surrounded by the snow-covered peaks of the Tian Shan. The Suusamyr Valley stretches approximately 100 kilometers from east to west and reaches a width of up to 40 kilometers. The peaks of the Kyrgyz Range along the Suusamyr Valley rise to 4,500 meters.

Nature

For paragliding, conditions in Suusamyr generally offer strong thermals from May to September; the upper limit is 5,000 meters. The FlyKG Suusamyr paragliding base offers rooms, a kitchen, and grassy areas for landing and preparing gliders.

Culture and Everyday Life

Turan Camp is an ethno-camp in the Suusamyr Valley focusing on Kyrgyz nomadic culture and organizing horse-riding tours for visitors. It offers standard and upgraded rooms as well as accommodation in a shared yurt. The camp includes a breakfast service; lunch and dinner can be ordered from a menu.

In the Suusamyr Valley, roadside yurts sell freshly baked bread, butter, kuurdak, kurut, and kumys. The valley is also associated with yurt-based ethno-tourism and more recent glamping accommodation.

Winter

In the winter sports sector, the Suusamyr ski base offers freeriding in unprepared snow with the help of a snowcat. The Suusamyr ski base is described at kilometer 158 on the Bishkek–Osh highway, in the Suusamyr Valley at an altitude of 2,260 meters. Suusamyr is listed among the ski bases in Chuy Province that offer services to visitors.

Places and Facilities

In the rural Suusamyr area, there is a roadside camping facility with visitor amenities such as a shop, a pharmacy, and a mother-and-child room. The village of Suusamyr has recreational facilities that receive foreign tourists.

Those wishing to rent a holiday apartment in Suusamyr can then continue their accommodation search.

For the higher-level travel overview: Chuy Region.

More Destinations

More places within the same destination:

Novopavlovka, Tokmok, Shamshy, Kant, Lebedinovka, Shabdan, Yurevka, Kemin.