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  Discovery :: Archive :: Circumnavigating Issyk-Kul   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Issyk Kul is vast and I knew that a two-day visit wouldn't be enough to form an accurate impression of the lake and its environs.
Because I was visiting in the autumn, when the leaves were turning red, the skies gray, and the grass brown, my experience would be very different to that of summer visitors who spend most of their time relaxing along the sandy northern shores of the lake.
I was intrigued by the tales I had heard of drowned cities such as the ancient town of Chi-gu, built by a tribe driven from China by the Huns, and destroyed sometime after the 5th century.
www.silkpress.com /archive/discovery/kg_summer2005/issykkul.shtml   (970 words)

  
 The Many Faces Of Issyk Kul
Christopher Pala / For MT The shores along Issyk Kul, which means Warm Lake, offer an incredibly diverse range of scenery, from green meadows to sandy beaches, alpine peaks to rugged desert terrain.
As we sailed by the south coast of Kyrgyzstan's Lake Issyk Kul, we watched in wonder as the scenery drifting past us displayed a startling juxtaposition of Caribbean, desert and Alpine snapshots -- all in a spot that is about as far from any sea as one can get anywhere on the planet.
Issyk Kul means Warm Lake (slightly salty, it never freezes).
www.themoscowtimes.com /stories/2002/03/19/015.html   (1924 words)

  
 U.S.S. Scimitar | 3rd Fleet | NCC-80826   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
During mid-2380 the U.S.S. Issyk Kul was assigned to a military operation to cleanse the Krios Sector of Green Star forces.
Following their assignment at Krios, the Issyk Kul was reassigned to Sector 17328 under the command of Vice Admiral Darek Haydes.
En route to Starbase 657, the Issyk Kul discovered the runabout Snowdon, and brought the craft and it's crew to the base.
scimitar.ships.acalltoduty.com /encyc/i.html   (105 words)

  
 Karakol, Issyk-kul. Kyrgyzstan.
Karakol is at the Eastern end of Lake Issyk Kul.
The largest town and the administration center of the Issyk Kul oblast, the town was founded by Russian settlers in the 1869.
Originally named Karakol — then in 1886 renamed Prezhervalsk — Lenin gave it back it«s original name in 1926 only to have Stalin renamne it Prezhevalsk again in 1935 — Finaly in 1991 it was renamed Karakol once more.
www.svetlanasbrides.com /kyrgyzstan/issykkul/karakol/karakol.htm   (245 words)

  
 Heart Of The Silk Road: Issyk-Kul, Burana & Bishkek
We had earlier agreed with S. Pyshnenko that he would drive us to Bishkek for US$100 with stops at Issyk Kul and Burana Tower along the way.
Passed many Russian-Cossack villages where farmers were busy harvesting their wheat.
An advertisement of Kumtor, the Canadian-Kyrgyz joint venture company involved in the chemical accident near Issyk Kul.
weecheng.com /silk/kyrgyz/kyrgyz3.htm   (702 words)

  
 Issyk-Kul Lake
Ask the locals or staff at sanatoriums for directions.
Our captain was a retired army man who comes every year from Russia with his wife to spend the summer on their yacht on Issyk Kul.
He was once posted to serve in Kyrgyzstan and since then he and his wife's hearts have been set on the lake.
expat.nursat.kz /?2218   (1135 words)

  
 Geology with Ken Rasmussen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Ricketts, R. D., Rasmussen, K. A., Brown, E. T., and Johnson, T. J., 1999, Stable isotope and trace element composition of ostracodes from Lake Issyk Kul, Kyrgyzstan, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California, December 12.
Rasmussen, K. A., Ricketts, R. D., Johnson, T. C., and Romanovsky, V. V., 1999, Late Quaternary sedimentation of Lake Issyk Kul, Kyrgyzstan: An 8,000 year record of deposition and Central Asian paleoclimate change, The Second International Congress of Limnogeology, Plouzane, France, May 25-29.
Rasmussen, K. A., Johnson, T. C., and Romanovsky, V. V., 1998, Deep sediments of Lake Issyk Kul, Kyrgyzstan: Depositional history and evidence for Central Asian paleoclimate change, GSA Abstracts with Programs, Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada, October 25-29.
www.nv.cc.va.us /home/krasmussen/KARCurVit.htm   (2474 words)

  
 ITAR-TASS: SODIUM CYANIDE CONTAMINATES RIVER FLOWING INTO ISSYK KUL.@ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
ITAR-TASS: SODIUM CYANIDE CONTAMINATES RIVER FLOWING INTO ISSYK KUL.@ HighBeam Research
Sodium cyanide contaminates river flowing into Issyk Kul.
have fallen into a river flowing into the lake of Issyk Kul as a result
www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:6977133&refid=holomed_1   (205 words)

  
 Celestial Mountains | Issyk Kul | Karkara)
This program starts out from the forests of Almarasan gorge and then follows across the wide valley of Chong Keming, where we cross over Aksu Pass (4052 m).
On the descent we'll see Kyrghyz nomads living on the sides of Chong Aksu river, where a vehicle will pick us up and drive to the shore of Issyk Kul Lake.
After a lunch in picnic style we'll then drive to the Karkara Base Camp.
www.infohub.com /TRAVEL/SIT/sit_pages/8636.html   (429 words)

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