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Leila K
2 contributions
Jan 2020 • Couples
Tash Rabat is old building located in Naryn region, if you come to Naryn you can see Tash Rabat, Chatyr Kul lake and Kel Suu. Tash Rabat is belongs to the 16th century. Our tour arranged with Pegas Adventure. We spent best time in Kyrgyzstan.
Written 20 January 2020
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moraira
UK845 contributions
Aug 2012 • Friends
The caravanserai of Tash Rabat is a restored (reconstructed) building out by itself miles from anywhere. It is an opportunity to see what the stations along the Silk Route were like.
Right in front of the caravanserai are 2 yurt camps. We stayed in the closer of the 2 to the caravanserai - the owner is the said Nazira referred to in another post here. The yurts are fine, and food was served in the building attached to their house. Fairly standard and adequate Central Asian cuisine.
We rented horses and a guide from the yurt owners for an 8 hour trek up to the top of the Torugart Pass. I think it is about 7800 meters high and has views over the lake below and the Chinese frontier beyond - the wind fairly whistles through the pass, which is saddle shaped, and it is cold, cold there, but worth the ride. The ride down is scarier than going up,but the horse are used to it and are sure footed.
Some of our friends, who were experience mountain walkers, reached the top and back in about 10 hours.
The toilets are not unexpectedly of the "long drop" variety - there is really no alternative here!
To appreciate the Silk Route and the conditions that merchants of old endured, you really want to visit this site and stay overnight
Right in front of the caravanserai are 2 yurt camps. We stayed in the closer of the 2 to the caravanserai - the owner is the said Nazira referred to in another post here. The yurts are fine, and food was served in the building attached to their house. Fairly standard and adequate Central Asian cuisine.
We rented horses and a guide from the yurt owners for an 8 hour trek up to the top of the Torugart Pass. I think it is about 7800 meters high and has views over the lake below and the Chinese frontier beyond - the wind fairly whistles through the pass, which is saddle shaped, and it is cold, cold there, but worth the ride. The ride down is scarier than going up,but the horse are used to it and are sure footed.
Some of our friends, who were experience mountain walkers, reached the top and back in about 10 hours.
The toilets are not unexpectedly of the "long drop" variety - there is really no alternative here!
To appreciate the Silk Route and the conditions that merchants of old endured, you really want to visit this site and stay overnight
Written 21 August 2012
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AliceFromWonderland
Hong Kong, China1,387 contributions
Aug 2018 • Friends
It is interesting to visit this place because you would understand how life was for those Silk Road merchants. It’s really tough! Building such a strong stone structure in the middle of nowhere in those days is really amazing!
Written 3 August 2018
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Allan F
Engelberg, Switzerland4 contributions
Jan 2020
Tash Rabat located in Naryn region and extremely isolated Silk Road caravanserai lies at an elevation of 3,200m (10,498ft) above the sea level. It’s probably Kyrgyzstan’s most remarkable monument. This beautiful mountain setting for an ancient caravanserai was built in 15th century. It was the inn for merchants and travelers on the ancient Silk Road from Central Asia to China. To see inside Tash Rabat it takes 5 min and possible to sleep in yurt
Written 7 January 2020
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DaiQiuYun
London, England, United Kingdom26 contributions
Sept 2016 • Couples
We went to Tash Rabat towards the end of our stay in Kyrgyzstan, after having travelled in the country for 10 days.
We contacted Kubat and were quoted a price of 3000 som for a next-day return taxi from Naryn,which we thought reasonable. We dropped by the Kubat office to check details, and asked about yurt stay options - we had read good reviews here about Nasira's yurt, so mentioned this. He seemed lukewarm about Nasira and explained that if we stayed in his partner's yurt, the driver would stay for free, rather than us paying for him too. We asked whether it would be possible to get vegetarian food, and whether he could explain this to the yurt owner for us - he said this would be fine and that there was no need to worry, the 'nice family' who owned it spoke both English and French. The price was 600 som/person for b&b, and 350 for the dinner - this seemed ok, and we accepted. While we were there, Kubat's wife offered us tea and we bought a few souvenirs (subsequently we decided that these were somewhat overpriced - esp the postcards). Kubat seemed very nice and we trusted his recommendation.
The drive was fine and the driver fairly cautious, which we appreciated.
Unfortunately, however, the reason for this poor review is that the yurt camp failed spectacularly to live up to expectations! We pulled up to a rather deserted feeling place with various buildings under construction, just down the valley from the caravanserai. We stood about a bit and then a woman came out and showed us a yurt - she spoke neither English nor French, and noone else in the camp seemed to either. A far cry from the warm welcome we had received at yurt camps on the song kul trek, this was decidedly lacklustre.
The yurt itself smelled of old cigarette smoke, and contained four beds, with two pushed together to make a sort-of double. The ground was part-covered by some dirty lino and a rug or two, but the area on one side of the bed was bare earth (again, unlike all the other yurts we had stayed in) There was a stove in the corner (not lit). We asked for some tea and were served some in a large 'dining' yurt - this was ok. We managed to find out through miming the time for dinner, and showed the woman the sentence we had in our book explaining in Russian and Kyrgyz that we didn't eat meat, which she seemed to understand.
On return from visiting the caravanserai, late afternoon, it started to rain - we took shelter in our yurt to read, under the covers - it was cold enough to see our own breath. Eventually a man came by and put some fuel in the stove, but did not light it. There was one LED light hung from a rope in the centre, which gave off less light than a candle - barely enough to see your way to your shoes in the dark, and not enough for reading.
Dinner was pretty dire - the usual tomato and cucumber salad, which was ok, but then a tasteless and greasy noodle soup, followed by a plate of cabbage and pepper which had, as was made clear when we tasted it - and when the driver's meal appeared - simply been fished out of a meat stew. The veg tasted so strongly of mutton that we couldn't stomach eating it. This meal - by far the worst we had had since arriving (even as veggies, we had had excellent food in homestays, yurts and restaurants alike) - was at the top end of what we had paid price-wise and certainly not worth it!
After dinner, we went back to the yurt, which was freezing. We had to ask for the stove to be lit, and a guy turned up to light it - although with no torch, so I held mine for him instead so he could see what he was doing. We decided that eve that we would leave early the next day, rather than afternoon as planned. The whole atmosphere of the place was depressing and slightly creepy, with a bunch of unsmiling men hanging around and periodically spitting on the floor, eyeing us but never returning any smile or greeting. The yurt had little holes in the roof and wall and just felt generally unloved. There was no family - this was clearly a tourists-only destination - no English/French speaker and no proper veggie food. We recognise that part of the rather grim atmosphere may have been because it was the tail-end of the season, but overall we didn't feel that Kubat had fairly represented what we got, and this was certainly the lowlight of an otherwise fantastic trip in this country.
We contacted Kubat and were quoted a price of 3000 som for a next-day return taxi from Naryn,which we thought reasonable. We dropped by the Kubat office to check details, and asked about yurt stay options - we had read good reviews here about Nasira's yurt, so mentioned this. He seemed lukewarm about Nasira and explained that if we stayed in his partner's yurt, the driver would stay for free, rather than us paying for him too. We asked whether it would be possible to get vegetarian food, and whether he could explain this to the yurt owner for us - he said this would be fine and that there was no need to worry, the 'nice family' who owned it spoke both English and French. The price was 600 som/person for b&b, and 350 for the dinner - this seemed ok, and we accepted. While we were there, Kubat's wife offered us tea and we bought a few souvenirs (subsequently we decided that these were somewhat overpriced - esp the postcards). Kubat seemed very nice and we trusted his recommendation.
The drive was fine and the driver fairly cautious, which we appreciated.
Unfortunately, however, the reason for this poor review is that the yurt camp failed spectacularly to live up to expectations! We pulled up to a rather deserted feeling place with various buildings under construction, just down the valley from the caravanserai. We stood about a bit and then a woman came out and showed us a yurt - she spoke neither English nor French, and noone else in the camp seemed to either. A far cry from the warm welcome we had received at yurt camps on the song kul trek, this was decidedly lacklustre.
The yurt itself smelled of old cigarette smoke, and contained four beds, with two pushed together to make a sort-of double. The ground was part-covered by some dirty lino and a rug or two, but the area on one side of the bed was bare earth (again, unlike all the other yurts we had stayed in) There was a stove in the corner (not lit). We asked for some tea and were served some in a large 'dining' yurt - this was ok. We managed to find out through miming the time for dinner, and showed the woman the sentence we had in our book explaining in Russian and Kyrgyz that we didn't eat meat, which she seemed to understand.
On return from visiting the caravanserai, late afternoon, it started to rain - we took shelter in our yurt to read, under the covers - it was cold enough to see our own breath. Eventually a man came by and put some fuel in the stove, but did not light it. There was one LED light hung from a rope in the centre, which gave off less light than a candle - barely enough to see your way to your shoes in the dark, and not enough for reading.
Dinner was pretty dire - the usual tomato and cucumber salad, which was ok, but then a tasteless and greasy noodle soup, followed by a plate of cabbage and pepper which had, as was made clear when we tasted it - and when the driver's meal appeared - simply been fished out of a meat stew. The veg tasted so strongly of mutton that we couldn't stomach eating it. This meal - by far the worst we had had since arriving (even as veggies, we had had excellent food in homestays, yurts and restaurants alike) - was at the top end of what we had paid price-wise and certainly not worth it!
After dinner, we went back to the yurt, which was freezing. We had to ask for the stove to be lit, and a guy turned up to light it - although with no torch, so I held mine for him instead so he could see what he was doing. We decided that eve that we would leave early the next day, rather than afternoon as planned. The whole atmosphere of the place was depressing and slightly creepy, with a bunch of unsmiling men hanging around and periodically spitting on the floor, eyeing us but never returning any smile or greeting. The yurt had little holes in the roof and wall and just felt generally unloved. There was no family - this was clearly a tourists-only destination - no English/French speaker and no proper veggie food. We recognise that part of the rather grim atmosphere may have been because it was the tail-end of the season, but overall we didn't feel that Kubat had fairly represented what we got, and this was certainly the lowlight of an otherwise fantastic trip in this country.
Written 3 September 2016
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JillBack
Nagiso-machi, Japan83 contributions
Oct 2013 • Couples
We have just driven from London to Shenzhen along the Silk Route. Tash Rabat was our last night in Kyrgyzstan and we stayed at Nazira's Yurt Camp. Of all the places we stayed in the 4 months this was an absolute highlight. The beauty is unsurpassed. The hospitality of a standard which is hard to describe. The yurt was beautifully decorated,spotlessly clean, the bedding light and warm and a heated stove greeted us after supper- it was FREEZING outside the yurt. We were lucky to have both dinner and breakfast with Nazira- the food was delicious, fresh and homemade.
Watching Nazira's children with her husband in those beautiful surroundings, riding walking and herding.... This is a place we hope we shall be able to return to one day.
Whether you are doing the Silk Route or you need time out, Kyrgyzstan is the place to make sure you do not miss- and if there is any chance to visit Tash Rabat .... do not nmiss it.
Thank you Nazira. I hope I shall see you again one day.
Watching Nazira's children with her husband in those beautiful surroundings, riding walking and herding.... This is a place we hope we shall be able to return to one day.
Whether you are doing the Silk Route or you need time out, Kyrgyzstan is the place to make sure you do not miss- and if there is any chance to visit Tash Rabat .... do not nmiss it.
Thank you Nazira. I hope I shall see you again one day.
Written 4 December 2013
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Changgulu
Martigny, Switzerland38 contributions
The caravanserail of Tash Rabat of the XI century is located near the Chinese border and the pass of Torugart. About 100km after Naryn, take the left road (South) about 15km inside a green valley situated at the altitude of 3200 meter above the sea. It's possible to have a visit of the Caravanserail, ask Nazira, she's speak english and she live in front of the caravanserail. You can hike for half day, or full day, or you can start a trekking till the lake of Chatyr Koel. There are yurt camp where you can sleep for about 10USD with breakfast.
Written 6 December 2010
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Ainura T
Kok Jar, Kyrgyzstan17 contributions
Jul 2018
It is a unique historical building on the Silk Road built in 15th century. Beware of the temperature fluctuations. In July, the night temperature can be around 10 degrees Celsius. The altitude is more than three thousand meters above the sea level. This building was mainly used as caravanserai for merchants. The place is great for horse riding and mountain hiking.
Written 17 July 2018
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Chris M
3 contributions
Sept 2018 • Couples
We did trip from naryn to Tash Rabat. Tash rabat is ancient building in this region. The roud from naryn to Tash Rabat its comlately super compare to other rouds. In tash possible spend one night. Around yurt camps.
Written 7 September 2018
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mmcgowan5
Denver, CO30 contributions
Aug 2013 • Family
Tash Rabat is settled in the south of Naryn, deep into the mountains. Formerly a hotel along the silk road it is now a popular destination for locals and tourist alike. There are many yurt companies set up in the area which can be contact through CBTs throughout the country. There are also many horse treks that will take you through the area on your many to Issyk-Kul or Chatyr-Kul.
The legend states that counting the rooms from left to right will land you a different number of rooms than if you were to count from right to left. It's kind of spooky. If your traveling with a taxi instead of through a service, expect to pay a $1 entrance fee. Truly the beauty of the mountains and rivers in the area and the mysticism of Tash Rabat itself makes it a must see if you find yourself in Naryn.
The legend states that counting the rooms from left to right will land you a different number of rooms than if you were to count from right to left. It's kind of spooky. If your traveling with a taxi instead of through a service, expect to pay a $1 entrance fee. Truly the beauty of the mountains and rivers in the area and the mysticism of Tash Rabat itself makes it a must see if you find yourself in Naryn.
Written 16 May 2014
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For anyone who can answer:
How did you get there? Organized tour or on your own? I've been looking for Silk Road tours that include a stop here on their itineraries, but I'm not finding anything.
Written 29 December 2019
Hi we hired a car and drove there. The road from main road is bumpy so allow extra time do in daylight. We hadn't factored in enough time and it was dark. We had 4 by 4 duster which managed road well. Driving ourselves certainly added to the adventure.
Written 27 February 2020
Un 4x4 est-il indispensable pour visiter Tash Rabat depuis Naryn?
Written 16 September 2019
A Tripadvisor member
Kabul Province, Afghanistan
Can anyone advise as to whether it is possible to visit Tash Rabat in mid-October? I.e. can you stay in yurts? Is it possible to hike to Chatyr Kul Lake? Thanks!
Written 11 September 2015
J'arrive de Tash Rabat (mi Septembre) et nous avons déja eu de la neige .. de plus l'un des propriétaires était en train de démonter ses yourtes .. alors prudence, renseignez vous d'abord si vous voulez y coucher, et équipez vous bien, il faisait 10/12 degrés dans la yourte la nuit !!
Written 20 September 2015
A Tripadvisor member
Kabul Province, Afghanistan
Can anyone advise as to whether it is possible to visit Tash Rabat in mid-October? I.e. can you stay in yurts? Is it possible to hike to Chatyr Kul Lake? Thanks!
Written 6 September 2015
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