Flora

              Flora is life of plants and comes from Latin name Flora in 16^th century, the goddess of flowers and nature. In Kyrgyzstan flora is different in various levels of mountains. The climate is extra continental and in the south it is rather dry, no forests. Just deserts and semi-deserts prevail there. Bushes and forests cover the territories of steppes, meadows and meadow steppes. Trees and forest mainly are in abundance at the foot of the mountain in Kyrgyzstan and less of them at higher altitudes.

              Different kinds of plants grow in Kyrgyzstan with 600 wild-growing plants and 200 medical ones. The abundance of coltsfoot, sea buckthorn, St John's wort, horsetail, Turkestan thermopsis and origanum plants are used in medical purposes. Vast forests consist of tulips and edelweiss, Siberian fir, Schrenk's fir, and juniper, used by the local population as the way to clean the area from evil spirits with the smoke of its burning and during a tour in Kyrgyzstan you may even see women walking along the bazaar with it cleaning the area.

              In Kyrgyzstan there is a place where we can meet the beauty of nature directly, as the biggest natural walnut forest, in the south of Kyrgyzstan. You will never meet the place like this forest as it is the only one of such kind all over the globe and it means it is a great chance for you to set off for a tour in Kyrgyzstan. It is 1, 600 m above sea level. And rare plants grow here, as wild apple, cherry trees, and pear growing there. The existence of Arslanbob is accompanied with the legend that Alexander the Great and or Prophet Muhammad on the other theory gave rise to the forest. According to the legend, before Alexander the Great, the place was used for hunting, but when he came, he took walnuts from ancient Iranian civilization Sagdiana and made up plantations.

              Natural life of Kyrgyzstan is rather prosperous and it is possible to visit a lot of sites of interest in Kyrgyzstan. Our managers are always ready to find a convenient tour program especially for you! Contact us and we will help you to visit Kyrgyzstan.