Morning hike and drive to a wild camp in Cholpon-Ata

Several from the group decided on a morning hike instead of going with the Russian trucks all the way. We ended up walking 3 hours before the trucks came. We drove to the hotel where our truck was parked and quickly got all our things back in the truck. Then we drove to town for some more food shopping for this night's wild camp and to have lunch.

On the way to our wild camp we had a quick stop at an open air museum with petroglyphs. There weren't that many so it was mostly to show us that that they actually have some here as well. The Russian had helped keeping the number of petroglyphs down since they decided to construct the city airport in the middle of the site when they did it in the early 1950's. History wasn't that important back then.

We were at our camp site next to Issyk-Kul Lake in the afternoon and enjoyed the nice area in the afternoon and evening. Decided to go for a swim in the morning.

The supermarkets don't lack vodka - or vodkas with great names 

Cholpon-Ata petroglyph