After breakfast at Kochkor head west to the Kochkor – Jumgal road.  Follow the road by car  to the Kyzart Pass, where your guide team welcome you.  Start your trekking tour with crossing the Kyzyl-Kiya jailoo, an enormous, relatively flat sea of grass.  Continue over the Chaar-Archa Pass (3 061 m) into the Chaar-Archa Valley and eat a tasty lunch by the racing river, with views of holy 4400 m Baba-Ata Mountain.  Sated, ford the river and follow the trail over verdant hills to Kilemche Jailoo.  The name means “like a carpet,” and this swathe of grass covers whole mountain ranges, with shadings as subtle as any shyrdak (shyrdak is a Kyrgyz felt carpet).  Dine and sleep in a yurt, naturally.

After breakfast at Kilemche, spend the morning climbing to Jalgyz Karagai pass (3400 m), over the Song-Kol Mountains and into the lake’s basin. The morning climb affords wonderful views of Kilemche jailoo, and the pass itself is rocky and exciting.  From the pass, Song-Kol is still distant, but as you traipse down the slopes, it gets larger and larger; the mountains on the other side get higher and higher, until finally the lake fills most of your field of view and the southern mountains tower above it.  After lunch at Jaman Echki, follow the lakeshore west to the yurt at Tuz-Ashuu.  Upon arrival meet your host family of Kyrgyz shepherds. Meals and overnight are in a yurt of shepherds.

Last breakfast in Song-Kol Jailoo and leave  to Kyzart village via Tuz-Ashuu Pass. The pass opens you spectacular panoramic view to Jumgal valley and behind the Song-Kol valley. Say “Goodbye Song-Kol” and trek down to the village where your lunch will be waiting for you in family home stay. After lunch in the home stay and transfer for Kochkor village. Accommodation and dinner in the home stay.