Day Trip to the Chimgan Mountains and Charvak Reservoir

<section><h2>Overview</h2><p>Chimgan is where Tashkent escapes to. About 92 kilometres from the city, in the western Tian Shan, it has cool air in summer, snow in winter and the long turquoise Charvak reservoir filling the valley below.</p></section><section><h2>The day</h2><p>Your driver collects you from your hotel and heads into the mountains. At Chimgan an old chairlift carries you up the slope for the view back over the range, and there is time to walk a little at the top.</p><p>On the way home you stop along the shore of the Charvak reservoir and at a boulder field carved with petroglyphs.</p></section><section><h2>Highlights</h2><ul><li>A chairlift ride in the Chimgan mountains</li><li>The Charvak reservoir</li><li>Ancient petroglyphs</li><li>Mountain viewpoints</li></ul></section>