吉里吉斯坦旅游业

吉里吉斯坦是一个富魅力的小山国。百分之九十三的中亚山区就位于吉里吉斯坦境内。她处于和意大利，西班牙与日本同样的纬度，并与北部的哈萨克，南部的中国，西部的乌兹别克与西南部的塔吉克接壤。

吉里吉斯坦地区是古代游牧民族吉里吉斯人的故乡。吉里吉斯人像华人与蒙古人。他们爱好射雕。初提吉里吉斯人的最早文献来自公元前201年的中国史记。

道地的艳丽吉里吉斯坦动植物非常丰富，吸引众多的游客目光。壮丽的群山峻岭，壮阔的澎湃河流，茂盛的针叶树林与胡桃，坚果科森林，花朵处处绽放迷人不已的峡谷是该国的常见旅游资源。其山脉包括巴木尔山脉与享有武侠小说界盛誉的天山。因此，吉里吉斯坦有“神山之国”的美誉。坡背达山峰，海拔24549英尺高，是吉里吉斯坦最高的山峰。

吉里吉斯坦与亚洲和美洲各地有地理历史渊源。西藏喇嘛教和犹太教曾传进吉里吉斯坦。一种属于西亚和吉里吉斯坦的胡桃树品种能在秘鲁的安第斯山脉生长全靠古代吉里吉斯坦游牧民族过岛到美洲南下秘鲁定居。至今，吉里吉斯人与秘鲁印第安人的帽子有几分相似之处。。。在吉里吉斯坦的塔拉谷，石器时代的“鹿驼与有着驼背的雌鹿” (译)壁画与现今秘鲁的羊驼品种也很相似。有专家推测，古代羊驼马曾经中亚地区迁徙到中东沙漠，衍变成骆驼。

吉里吉斯坦是个古人类遗迹丰富的国家因为古石器时代的遗迹在该国也能找到。该地区见证了古人类从中亚迁徙到印度半岛，中国西部与南下远至东南亚的悠久历史。

吉里吉斯坦的旅游资产不计其数。所以，笔者无法详尽介绍。该国值得世界去发现她的古代秘密。

吉里吉斯坦的首都比什克与德里，乌鲁木齐，俄罗斯，伦敦，慕尼黑，伊斯坦布尔和沙迦有直达航班联系。非直达航线则经中国，乌兹别克或和哈萨克直达曼谷，吉隆坡与新加坡。

KYRGYZSTAN TOURISM

Kyrgyzstan is a small attractive mountainous country (93% covered in mountains) in Central Asia, situated at the same latitude as Italy, Spain and Japan. Kazakhstan borders on Kyrgyzstan in the north. China in the south, Uzbekistan in the west and Tajikistan in the south-west.

The area of Kyrgyzstan is the homeland of ancient nomadic people called “Kyrgyz”. The Kyrgyz look like the Chinese and Mongolians. They love eagle-hunting. The first mention of the Kyrgyz people can be found in Chinese Chronicles (201 BC).

The beauty and richness of Kyrgyzstan’s native flora and fauna will amaze you with its diversity. Gorgeous mountain landscapes, rushing rivers, dense coniferous and nut forests, green valleys and canyons, covered by flowers are common sights in Kyrgyzstan. The highest mountain in the chains-Pamir and Tien-Shan (well-known in the Chinese sword-fighting tales)-that cross the country is Peak Pobeda (67439 meters 24,549 ft-above sea level). Hence, Kyrgyzstan is known as the “Land of The Celestial Mountains”.

Kyrgyzstan has a long historical relationship with the continents of Asia and the Americas. For instance, Tibet Lamaism and Judaism spreaded to Kyrgyzstan. A walnut species native to West Asia, found in Kyrgyzstan, is also found in the Andean forests of South American country Peru. The ancient Kyrgyz forefathers moved across the Bering Straits and settled south towards ancient Peru. Until today, the hats that the Kyrgyz and Peruvian Indians put on are similar to each other in many ways…In the Talas Valley, rock drawings of “a deer-camel and a female deer with two conic humps” (KYRGYZSTAN Land of the Celestial Mountains An Information Pack, p. 41, 28.05.2003) are similar to the llama species of Peru. Many camel experts believe that the llama species of ancient Peru migrated to the deserts via Central Asia and became today’s camels.

Thus, Kyrgyzstan is a country rich in ancient civilization relics because traces of the Stone Age can be found here. The region has witnessed the migration movements of ancient Central Asian nomads towards the Indian Peninsula, western China and as far south as Southeast Asia.

Kyrgyzstan’s tourism assets are uncountable and hence the writer is not able to describe further. The mysterious Kyrgyzstan awaits the world to explore its ancient secrets.

Kyrgyzstan’s capital Bishkek has direct flights to Delhi, Urumqi, Russia, London, Munich, Istanbul and Sharjah. Its indirect flights reach Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore via China, Uzbekistan or and Kazakhstan.

Acknowledgements: Ian Claytor, Silk Road Lodge, Kyrgyzstan.