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Jeti-Ögüz valley

Red rock formations and Skazka canyon in a valley south of Karakol.18.8 km from our hostel, straight line.

What makes this different

Free to enter, and the red rock formations called the Broken Heart and the Seven Bulls run for some 37 kilometres along the valley. The marshrutka leaves the Big Bazaar three times a day for a hundred som, taking about an hour; a shared taxi for four people costs around fifteen hundred. There is no fixed timetable, and in summer you can drive the whole length of the valley and stop wherever the light is right.

Джети-Огуз, скалы сверху
Джети-Огуз, скалы сверху — Nikolai Bulykin, CC BY-SA 4.0 (source)
Джети-Огуз, разбитое сердце, текстура
Джети-Огуз, разбитое сердце, текстура — Nikolai Bulykin, CC BY-SA 4.0 (source)
The Seven Bulls
The Seven Bulls — Bernard Gagnon, CC0 (source)

Distance from the hostel

Straight line18.8 km
By car (approximate) 19–32 min
Coordinates 42.3691981, 78.2206545 · OpenStreetMap

Straight-line distance. By road it is longer — we do not publish a drive time we have not driven.

What this is

Red rock formations and Skazka canyon in a valley south of Karakol.

Where this came from

  • Coordinates: OpenStreetMap Nominatim, resolved 2026-10-09
  • Published only because confidence 7 is at least 6

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