{"id":749,"date":"2024-11-16T18:58:15","date_gmt":"2024-11-16T18:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kyrgyztravelguide.com\/?post_type=destinations&#038;p=749"},"modified":"2026-10-26T15:15:40","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T15:15:40","slug":"issyk-kul-lake","status":"publish","type":"destinations","link":"https:\/\/kyrgyztravelguide.com\/th\/destinations\/issyk-kul-lake\/","title":{"rendered":"Issyk-Kul Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Issyk-Kul is the second-largest alpine lake in the world \u2014 180 km long and up to 668 m deep \u2014 and the heart of Kyrgyz summer. Its slightly salty water never freezes, which gave it the name &#8220;warm lake&#8221;.<\/p>\n<h2>North shore vs south shore<\/h2>\n<p>The <strong>north shore<\/strong> (Cholpon-Ata) has beaches, resorts and the open-air petroglyph museum. The <strong>south shore<\/strong> is wilder: red canyons, eagle hunters, yurt camps on empty beaches and the gateway valleys to the Tian Shan.<\/p>\n<h2>Don&#8217;t miss<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Cholpon-Ata petroglyphs, carved 2,000\u20134,000 years ago.<\/li>\n<li>Skazka (Fairy Tale) Canyon at sunset.<\/li>\n<li>An eagle-hunting demonstration in Bokonbaevo.<\/li>\n<li>Swimming in July and August, when the water reaches 20\u201322 \u00b0C.<\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;warm lake&#8221;: a vast alpine sea ringed by snowy peaks that never freezes.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":769,"template":"","class_list":["post-749","destinations","type-destinations","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyrgyztravelguide.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/destinations\/749"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyrgyztravelguide.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/destinations"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyrgyztravelguide.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/destinations"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kyrgyztravelguide.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/destinations\/749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":768,"href":"https:\/\/kyrgyztravelguide.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/destinations\/749\/revisions\/768"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyrgyztravelguide.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyrgyztravelguide.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}