Kyrgyzstan visa requirements
The rule for your own passport, from Kyrgyzstan's official immigration page, with the date it was last checked. The same answer for every guide in Kyrgyzstan: Bishkek, Karakol, Song-Köl, Osh.
No visa neededup to 60 days
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Sixty days without a visa, no registration, and the most open door in Central Asia. Trekking near the Chinese border needs a border-zone permit, arranged by any agency in a few days.
e-Visa requiredup to 30 daysUSD 51
Every other passport
Through the government e-visa portal, in a week or so.
Entry rules change often and depend on your passport, your route and the purpose of the trip. Confirm on the official page before booking.
The guides in Kyrgyzstan
BishkekKyrgyzstanThe greenest Soviet capital, a grid of poplars under 4,000-metre peaks, and the base for the most beautiful mountains in Central Asia
KarakolKyrgyzstanA frontier town at the far end of Issyk-Kul, a wooden mosque built by Dungans, a Russian church, and every trek in the Tien Shan starting from it
Song-KölKyrgyzstanA lake at 3,000 metres on a plateau of grass, yurts and horses and nothing else, where the herders spend the summer and you can too
OshKyrgyzstanThe oldest city in Central Asia, a sacred mountain in the middle of it, a bazaar that has run for two thousand years, and the door to the Pamir Highway