The Salbuurun Festival on Lake Issyk-Kul brings together Kyrgyzstan’s finest hunters, performers and craftspeople in a vivid ...

Hundreds gathered Saturday on the southern shore of Kyrgyzstan’s Lake Issyk-Kul for the annual Salbuurun Festival. Held in ...

A Kyrgyz eagle hunter, also known as berkutchi, demonstrate the hiunting sklls of his golden eagle during the hunting ...

People participate in an equestrianism performance during a folk arts festival at the south bank of the Issyk-Kul Lake, Kyrgyzstan, Aug. 2, 2025. (Xinhua) People participate in a hunting performance ...

Issyk-Kul Lake in the central Asian nation of Kyrgyzstan is surrounded by the snow-capped Tian Shen mountains. It is the second-largest mountain lake in the world behind Lake Titicaca in South ...

An entrance to the Manzhyly-Ata sacred springs area near the southern shore of the Issyk Kul in Kyrgyzstan, in November 2023. On the shores of the 10th largest lake in the world are more than 130 ...

The Issyk-Kul lake in northern Kyrgyzstan, which traditionally never freezes due to the lake's depth and natural warmth of water, froze over due to extreme cold temperatures on Saturday (January 14).

On the shores of Lake Issyk Kul in mountainous Kyrgyzstan, a group of divers show off their haul for the day -- a boat engine, car tyres, bottles, clothes and plastic items."We would love to dive and ...

A moderate earthquake of magnitude 5.5 struck the south shore of Kyrgyzstan's Lake Issyk Kul on Friday, the U.S. Geological Survey said.