Trekking: The Turquoise Necklet of Uzbekistan

Western Tien-Shan, Pskem and Ugam ridges, Pskem river

The trekking part of the active tour includes 8 days and 7 nights.
The route runs around unique in its beauty mountain landscapes, where the nature is rich with scattered matters of turquoise lakes hidden into grand rocky bastions of Pskem and Ugam ridges.
Having finished the route the group has a rest on a coast of the Charvak reservoir in the “Charvak Oromgohy” hotel.
 

 

Transfer from Tashkent by highway Tashkent — Khojikent — to Urungach river gorge. Rest. Lunch.
Preparation to the acclimatization hike.
Walk up along the Urungach river to the Up lake.
Firstly path runs in the gorge somewhere by rocky-scree slopes and leads the group to the turquoise Down lake, which is fed to the spring — summer period and becomes empty to the end of summer. After this lake following by good path the group overcomes stony splinter obstruction. Then it’s left to go very short distance till the Up lake of the Urungach river. Here, on a bank of this nice blue lake, being surrounded with summits of the Ugam ridge, the group has a rest.
Pitch Camp 1. Dinner.

DAY 3: Breakfast. Walk to the uppers of the Urungach river.
Path leads to the uppers of the Urungach river along rocky spurs of the Ugam ridge. One of the highest summits (with 3615m of height) of the S-W ending of the Ugam ridge meets the travelers with its steep towers.
Passage to the spot of Camp 1. Rest. Lunch.
Passage from Camp 1 down along the Urungach river to the downs of the Badaksay river — the left tributary of the full water Pskem river.
On picturesque glade of the bank — pitch Camp 2. Dinner.
Preparation to the trek.

DAY 4: Breakfast. Passage up along the gorge of the Badaksay river to the Badak lake. Lunch is on the way.
Wide fields change to the slopes of the Pskem ridge spurs step by step. Good path runs somewhere by rocky-scree slopes and then, having passed by two small mountain lakes leads the group to the beautiful Badak lake — the lake of crystal purity and of all tints of turquoise.
This is the place for overnight.
On the bank — pitch Camp 3. Dinner. 

 

 

 
 

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