Uzbekistan Mountain Waterfalling


Uzbekistan Mountain Waterfalling

Waterfalling – waterfall hunting and waterfall hiking is hiking with the purpose of finding and enjoying waterfalls

Waterfall Hiking in West Tien Shan

Option 1. Driving from Tashkent through the Galvasay village to the recreation zone “Chimgan” at the foothill of the Chatkal range in the West Tien Shan (100 km, 1,5 hours, 1,300 m). Going up by a good path to the Pesochniy pass (1,832 m). Descending to the gorge of the Gulkamsay river. After rest in the birch grove go through one of the most beautiful places in the mountains of Uzbekistan – the Gulkam canyon. Canyoning. Rock chap at times converging up to 5 m having numerous small waterfalls, baths, rock gorges and with frequent wades can be walked through in 2  hours. After the rest, climb up the Kuiluksay River up to the waterfall, then go down the Gulkamsay River to the water intake near the country road.  Departure by car to Tashkent along the Charvak water reservoir. Majestic panorama of Ugam, Pskem and Koksu ranges of the West Tien Shan surrounding Charvak water reservoir opens up from the road. See the map …

Option 2. Driving from Tashkent through the Galvasay village to the recreation zone “Chimgan” at the foothill of the Chatkal range in the West Tien Shan (100 km, 1,5 hours, 1,300 m). Going up by a good path to the Pesochniy pass (1,832 m). Descending to the gorge of the Gulkamsay river. After rest in the birch grove go through one of the most beautiful places in the mountains of Uzbekistan – the Gulkam canyon. Canyoning. After rest – climb back to the Pesochniy pass (1,832 m), then ascent to the Smaller Chimgan Peak (2,100 m). Majestic panorama of Ugam, Pskem and Koksu ranges of the West Tien Shan surrounding Charvak water reservoir opens up from this peak. Descent to Chimgan. Departure by car to Tashkent along the coast of Charvak water reservoir.

Option 3. Marble river. Extreme Attention! This extreme program comes with risks. In addition, it requires good health and certain physical fitness of the participants. All participants are required to have insurance. At the discretion of the guide, any of the participants may not be allowed to the extreme part of this route.

On the Marble River from Chimgan, you first need to go along the road that rises to the Melovaya pass. Then we go to the mountain complex SURPA. We turn left and go, first along the road, then along the path down. We go straight down to the river, turn left and go up the riverbed. At first the path goes gently, then the bed of the Marble River begins to climb up the outcrop of the marble layers.


Uzbekistan Mountain Waterfalling

There are many real marble bathtubs and jacuzzis, which look very inviting for travelers weary from the heat of the day. Along the banks of the Marble River there are many fossilized shells that have well preserved their shape.

We go back along the same road, but, having reached the place of descent, which remains on the right, we go straight along the riverbed and quickly come to a place where the river breaks into gorges. Descent into the gorge from above is possible only with the use of climbing methods of belay. This is what we are going to do.

Ropes will be used to continue the program. The descent to the waterfall will be carried out along them using a descender. The place is very picturesque. In the warm season, you can refresh yourself under the waterfall.

The ascent is also carried out on a rope using the ascender device.

Having finished the program in the gorge, you can return the same way, but the ascent to the road is quite steep. It is better to go down the bed of the Marble River to the road leading to the Beldersay
resort. A car may be waiting for you there.

Price for one day of all routes hiking program

1pax – U$ 80
2pax – U$ 45
3pax – U$ 35 
4pax – U$ 30

Mountain Guide included, Mountain gear included. Local transportation isn’t included.


Uzbekistan Mountain Waterfalling



Mountains, Photo & Sightseeng in Uzbekistan. Sketch itinerary

Mountains, Photo & Sightseeng in Uzbekistan. Sketch itinerary

 

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Chimgan-Beldersay is the most famous natural area in Uzbekistan, which is located in the mountains of Western Tien-Shan (90 km far from Tashkent). Chimgan in the best way approaches for photo leisure with families and children, Beldersay is more appropriate for hiking and trekking with your cameras. The most interesting areas for touring are situated between 2000-2500 m.

Sketch itinerary 2023

Day 01. Arrival in Tashkent. Meeting at the airport, transfer in Chimgan. Arrangements with an accommodation. If the time allows – walking tour around Chimgan Resort area.

Day 02. Early in a morning an ascent to the Western Ridge of Chimgan 2350 m. Majestic panorama of Ugam, Pskem and Koksu ranges of the West Tien Shan surrounding Charvak water reservoir opens up from this point. Descent to Chimgan. Return to hotel.

Day 03. Transfer in Amirsoy mountain resort. Ascent to the highest point (2275 m.) with the gondola lift. Descent is carried out through smoothed relief (steepness up to 30 degrees) without deep gorges and canyons. Archa and the deciduous woods grow on slopes alternating with open glades. Return to hotel in Chimgan.

Day 04. Going up by a good path to the Pesochniy pass (1,832 m). Descending to the gorge of the Gulkamsay river. After rest in the birch grove go through one of the most beautiful places in the mountains of Uzbekistan – the Gulkam canyon. Canyoning. After rest – climb back to the Pesochniy pass (1,832 m), then ascent to the Smaller Chimgan Peak (2,100 m). Panorama of Ugam, Pskem and Koksu ranges. Descent to Chimgan. Return back to hotel.

Day 05. Early morning pilgrimage to Kyzyl-Jar peak (1,866 m), for a spectacular sunrise over the Greater Chimgan 3309 m. Descent to Chimgan. Walk through the Ak-Sai gorge. Return to hotel.

Day 06. Departure by car to Tashkent along the Charvak artificial lake. The road goes around the lake through the Brichmulla-Nanai area, which incorporates villages, situated in the south-east of the Charvak water reservoir at 960 m. You vill have a look Brichmulla and other villages in the area: Yakkatut, Yanghikurgan, Yusufhona, Yubileiniy, Baladala, Bogustan, and Nanai people. A great majority of population are ethnic tajiks. We will finish our excursion in Khodjikent, place of ancient market with ancient platans and rock paintings. Arrive to Tashkent train station. Leave for Bukhara by the night train.

Day 07.
07.00 Meeting at the Kagan train station. Transfer to
Bukhara. A breakfast in hotel;
09.00 Excursion across Bukhara;
19.00 Transfer to train station;
20.50 Train to Samarkand.

Day 08.
01.40 Arrival in Samarkand. A meeting at train station,
transfer to hotel.
10.00. Excursion across Samarkand.
17.30. Transfer to the train station.
18.00 Train to Tashkent.
20.00 Arrival in Tashkent, meeting at train station, transfer in the airport.
End of the program

The cost includes:
All meetings, seeng-offs and transfers on a route.
Service of a professional guide.
Accommodation in guest house in Chimgan (or hotel on your
choice). Registration.
Railway tickets for a train (compartment) Tashkent – Bukhara,
Bukhara – Samarkand.
Railway tickets for «Аfrosiab» train Samarkand – Tashkent.
Service of guides in Samarkand and Bukhara.
Car with the driver during excursion in Samarkand.
Breakfast in Bukhara and Samarkand (and in Chimgan at place
of residence).

The cost does not include:
A food in Chimgan and in the cities.
Lift charge in Chimgan and Beldersay.
Entrance tickets for excursion objects in Samarkand and
Bukhara.

Price.
2 pax:
550 USD – accommodation in guest house.
630 USD – accommodation in hotel (Standard room).
3 pax:
455 USD – accommodation in guest house.
635 USD – accommodation in hotel (Junior suite room).
4 pax:
485 USD – accommodation in guest house.
600 USD – accommodation in hotel (Standard room).

Uzbekistan Mountains near to Tashkent

Chimgan Mountains

The Chimgan Mountains are invariably attractive for mountaineers. The wide variety of Chimgan and its surroundings allows the activity in all kinds of mountaineering and landscape tourism. Mountains (Small and Greater Chimgan Peaks – 3,309 m) of Chatkal range, plateaus, the Black Waterfall (40 m) at the lower part of Greater Chimgan PeakGulkam waterfalls, attract a lot of tourists from Uzbekistan and abroad.


Chimgan Mountains Trekking Chimgan Photos
Chimgan landscape photographs


West Tien-Shan Mountains Map


Uzbekistan Mountain Waterfalling

 

 

Uzbekistan Mountain Rafting

Rafting routes along Chatkal, Oyga’ing, Pskem, Ugham and Ahangaran

 

Ugam Mountain River

We offer one day  route along Uzbekistan’s part of the Ugam river from village Humsan to Khodjikent water reservoir. The length of rafting route along the Ugham is 11 kilometers. The route starts from “Ugam” resort and finishes in the creek of the river where it flows into the Hojikent water reservoir. On this section raft-men usually make a double trip down the river. The number of obstacles makes your experience really impressive: in some spots the stream will press you against the rocks, in others you’ll need to raft sideways; and all the way down there are above-water rocks and submerged stones. All this is aggravated by the rapid current. However, in case of emergency situation, prompt mooring and urgent landing can be made at any length of the route.


Ugam Mountain River

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Uzbekistan Mountains near to Tashkent

Chimgan Mountains

The Chimgan Mountains are invariably attractive for mountaineers. The wide variety of Chimgan and its surroundings allows the activity in all kinds of mountaineering and landscape tourism. Mountains (Small and Greater Chimgan Peaks – 3,309 m) of Chatkal range, plateaus, the Black Waterfall (40 m) at the lower part of Greater Chimgan PeakGulkam waterfalls, attract a lot of tourists from Uzbekistan and abroad.



Chimgan Mountains Trekking Chimgan Photos
Chimgan landscape photographs


West Tien-Shan Mountains Map



 

 

Local peculiarities of rafting in Uzbekistan Mountain Rivers

Chatkal Mountain River

The rivers in the mountains of Uzbekistan have the level six of complexity, and that is why it attracts the attention of the world’s strongest sportsmen.
 
Rafting along the rapid
Chatkal River
is the favorite activity of extreme travelers. They are interested in many-day rafting along the route rated as the route of the fifth
category of complexity, as well as in diverse landscapes and natural obstacles. Not less than fifty serious obstacles await the travelers on the river. Among the hardest ones are waterfalls, cascades of rapids, stony shallow areas with rapid current, whirlpools, rocky gorges and sharp stone cogs sticking out of waves. What makes the Chatkal peculiar is the availability of natural obstacles whose complexity is increasing gradually with climax awaiting the travelers in the lower reaches of the river.
 
Those who at least once traveled along the Chatkal will never forget the ‘River of Five Canyons‘. This is how tourists call the Chatkal. The nature here is really imposing and amazes the visitor by its primeval beauty. The grandeur of the Second and the Third Canyon Rocks surpasses all imagination. The Second Canyon makes a breathtaking impression by its towering stone walls and slopes. The Third Canyon is rocky; this is a narrow and winding corridor of 200-300 meters high. At the bottom of the rocks there is still blue water, on each side there are wet, bright and dark-grey rocks with sombre entries to grottos and caves. Overhead there is a narrow line of blue sky which is sometimes blocked by dangerously hanging cornices. Here and there the river-bed narrows to 6-8 meters. On the river banks there are floodplain forests and alpine meadows. The odour of thousands of flowers and conifers is brought by the breeze. The wide intermountain depression is framed with the snowcapped mountains of the Chatkal and Sandala Ridges glaring with the snow. Against the background of the dark-blue sky there rises the colossal Peak of Chatkal which is 4503 meters high. It is the highest point of the Western Tien-Shan. Next to it there towers a mountain, which is a little lower than Chatkal Peak – Chatkal Ushba.


Chatkal Mountain River
 

The length of the Chatkal is 223 kilometers. And only 183 kilometers is fit for rafting. Difference of the heights between the river head and its estuary reaches 1267 meters.

The waterfall of the First Canyon is rather perilous for all sorts of water crafts; it consists of two steps with the dip for about four meters. After the waterfall there comes a hundred-meter area of steeply-falling rapids. In the middle of the Canyon a real eye-catcher is the inflow of the Chatkal’s big left tributary, the Ters, which falls down the rocky ledge.
 
Hargush rapids are considered to be the hardest obstacles in the sailing directions of the Chatkal. It spreads for one and a half kilometers and is noted for its powerful overflows through the stone ranges and boulders. In one place stones almost block the river leaving the space of only two or three meters between them. The stream, breaking through the dam falls down by two-meter flow. When going through these rapids, one should take additional safety measures.
 
After the Hargush rapids, in the order of decrease of complexity, there come rapids of Pigak, Kishlaksay, Second Slalom (Shabrez) and Naizinskiy.
 
Most dangerous rapids are located in the Fifth Canyon. There is also a two-kilometers section where the rocks come close to each other making a
very narrow rocky corridor. The narrowest part in this section is called a ‘diaphragm’ by tourists. Following this ‘diaphragm’, the river gradually calms down and after two kilometers the corridor ends, as well as the last Canyon itself. The river-bed widens again; pebble and sandbanks are seen on both sides of the river.
 
Aurahmat is the last rapid in the sailing directions of the Chatkal. It is opened only during at the period of water discharge for irrigation.
 
Water route along the Chatkal has comfortable but long approaches. One can get to upper reaches of the river both from the Uzbek city of Namangan hrough Chapchama Mountain Pass (2841 meters above sea level) in the Chatkal Ridge – southern variant of access, and from Kazakh city of Toraz hrough Karabura Mountain Pass (3300 meters above sea level) in the Talass Ridge – northern variant of access. Both variants imply nearly equal distances.
 
The set-off route is much more convenient. From the Ugham-Chatkal National Park, where eight-day rafting tour down the Chatkal River closes, there is a modern highway leading to Tashkent, giving the travelers the opportunity to reach the country’s capital just in two hours.
 
In case rafting down the Chatkal River is routed through the territory of both Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan,  ts Oyga’ingPskemUgham and Ahangaran sections entirely relate to the Uzbek territory.
 
The route along Pskem and its main part the Oyga’ing river is really unique. In accordance with international classification it falls into the most difficult, the sixth category of complexity. In the world there are few rivers with conditions of rafting similar to Oyga’ing – Pskem section. Among them we can name the Choroh River in Turkey, the Arun in Himalayas, the Blue Nile in Africa and a number of rivers in the Altai Mountains in Russia.
 
The key obstacles accounting for high technical complexity of the route are as follows: the Big inrush in Oyga’ing where the river runs through fragmental blockings of five stone obstructions, the rapids of Shtolnya and Teparskiy obstruction on the Pskem, where the main waterfall is made up by two rocks converging upward. The very names of the rapids Kovarniy (treacherous), Shtopor (cockscrew), Gorka (hill), Vorota (gates) speak for themselves.
 
But the above mentioned difficulties should not scare the inexperienced raft-men into avoiding the Pskem. They are recommended to begin to boat or raft down the Pskem river to Charvak Reservoir from Tepar obstruction, or from Pskem settlement, in which case Taparskiy obstruction should be avoided by carrying the boats round this section. Under the first option the length of the descend makes up 20 kilometers, while under the second
option it is twice as long. It must be said that boating and rafting down the rivers is controlled by experienced guides who know the local conditions perfectly well.
 
Natural beauty in the Oyga’ing and Pskem Valleys can fascinate every traveler whatever experience he or she has. Everything here can make you
be in high spirits: nice weather, the breath-taking beauty of rivers and mountains.
 
Within the limits of recommended areas for rafting, both above rivers fall into the fourth category of complexity. The best time for rafting is April and  May due to good weather conditions. In Uzbekistan this is the time when gardens of the mountain valleys are in blossom. One can hardly find more wonderful natural environs.

 

Chatkal Mountain River


The length of rafting route along the Ugham is 11 kilometers. The route starts from “Ugam” resort and finishes in the creek of the river where it flows into the Hojikent water reservoir. On this section raft-men usually make a double trip down the river. The number of obstacles makes your experience really impressive: in some spots the stream will press you against the rocks, in others you’ll need to raft sideways; and all the
way down there are above-water rocks and submerged stones. All this is aggravated by the rapid current. However, in case of emergency situation, prompt mooring and urgent landing can be made at any length of the route.
 
Rafting down the Ahangaran river takes more time as the route covers the length of thirty kilometers. It starts in the estuary of the Yakkaarchasay river (7 kilometers off the highway bridge before the rise to the Kamchik mountain pass in the Kuramin Ridge) and closes in front of the Angren water reservoir. The most impressive rapids of the route are Ertash and Koksaray rapids.

Reference: Mountain rafting and steppe hiking


Pskem Mountain River
Pskem Mountain River

Pskem Mountain River