{"id":762,"date":"2026-10-26T15:15:37","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T15:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kyrgyztravelguide.com\/destinations\/ala-archa-national-park\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T15:15:37","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T15:15:37","slug":"ala-archa-national-park","status":"publish","type":"destinations","link":"https:\/\/kyrgyztravelguide.com\/th\/destinations\/ala-archa-national-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Ala-Archa National Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ala-Archa is Bishkek&#8217;s mountain playground. A narrow road climbs from the city into a gorge lined with juniper (archa) and spruce, ending at a trailhead surrounded by 4,000-metre peaks.<\/p>\n<h2>Trails<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Ak-Sai waterfall<\/strong> \u2014 3\u20134 hours return, a steady climb to a 30-metre cascade.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ratsek hut<\/strong> \u2014 a full-day hike to the climbers&#8217; hut under the Ak-Sai glacier.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Valley walk<\/strong> \u2014 an easy riverside path for families and acclimatisation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Bring layers: even in July it can snow above 3,000 metres.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juniper forests, glacier views and well-marked trails just an hour south of Bishkek.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":763,"template":"","class_list":["post-762","destinations","type-destinations","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyrgyztravelguide.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/destinations\/762"}],"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":0,"href":"https:\/\/kyrgyztravelguide.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/destinations\/762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyrgyztravelguide.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyrgyztravelguide.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}