Song-Kul Hot Springs

Song-Kul Hot Springs is a thermal site in the highland zone surrounding Song-Kul, Kyrgyzstan's second-largest lake and the highest significant alpine lake in Central Asia at 3,016 metres, where sulfurous springs emerge in a vast treeless landscape of summer pastures (jailoos) that represents the living heart of Kyrgyz nomadic culture. The springs provide warm sulfurous bathing in a landscape shaped entirely by pastoral nomadism — yurt camps of herding families, vast horse and sheep herds, and the unbroken horizon of the Tian Shan steppe — creating a thermal experience of extraordinary cultural and geographic purity. Bathing in the Song-Kul springs amid the silence of the high plateau, with snow-capped peaks on the horizon and eagles circling overhead, is among the most remote and atmospherically powerful thermal experiences available in the entire Central Asian mountain system.