Scenic route
Issyk-Kul Summer Train
Bishkek → Balykchy · Kyrgyzstan
- Distance
- 185 km
- Fastest time
- 4 h 05 min
- Top speed
- 60 km/h
- Operator
- Kyrgyz Temir Zholu
- Train
- Panoramic tourist cars
- Countries
- Kyrgyzstan
- In service since
- 1948
A summer-weekend crawl up the Boom Gorge to Issyk-Kul, the world’s second-largest alpine lake — panoramic cars bolted on for the mountain walls.
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