Pris jusqu’à Naryn, directement, excellent spot.

Pris en 1 minute en direction de Naryn

Kyrgiz people are way too nice! Just have a big smile on your face and some driver will pick you up :)

Many people pass by. Most will ask for money but after some time you'll get someone to pick you for free. Going to Kochkor

I spent 10min inside Karakol with no luck then took a yandex to this stop and after 1min a car already took me!

We were three hitchhikers and got a ride to the Kyzart Pass from a very nice truck driver on his way to Kazarman

Plan was to take a Marschrutka, but since none drove by I went to the petrol station and asked if anyone could take me towards the West. A very nice family drove me all the way to Bishkek.

HITCHHIKING ON PAMIR HIGHWAY : 1. Take warm clothes. 2. Accept only a direct ride to Karakul, you don't want to get stuck in the snow. 3. Start early in the morning if you want to be more successful. 4. Consider paying fees for the lifts. In that setting, it is a normal thing. Think that anyway, hitchhiking and paying for the rides will be so cheaper than renting a car or paying a guide. You have to accept you actually need help on that trip, everything is remote and you can't do everything by yourself. Yesterday, late afternoon (3.30PM) I tried for two hours to hitchhike with no success : 3 full cars passed by. I pitched my tent after the bridge and by 7.30 AM I was on the road, prepared to hitchhike when a car stopped for me. It was 3 Kirghiz going to Karakul. I usually ask the price before entering the vehicle, but that day was my last visa day and I was willing to pay just to go out of Kirghizistan so at the end I gave them 30$, which is a good deal IMO.

DIRECTION PAMIR (SARY-TASH) : Taken in no time by a truck driver, Abdematit, all the way to Sary-Tash! I asked him to drop me at the intersection of the Pamir highway, so I can try to hitch a ride and to sleep in tent if it fails. Spoiler : it failed. I saw 3 full cars in 2 hours.

DIRECTION PAMIR (SARY-TASH) : Cold, rainy, low traffic. Will work in the end. Several trucks but they go quite fast and were not willing to stop despite the room. Taken by Bara (M23) further on the road !

DIRECTION PAMIR (SARY-TASH) : Was taken further on the road. M+60

DIRECTION PAMIR (SARY-TASH) : got a lift further. Thank you Adelet (M~33)

DIRECTION PAMIR (SARY-TASH) : take bus 120. For 1€ you are 1h drive away from the city. Then you can start hitchhiking further. Hitchhiking for free here won't work.

DEO GRATIAS. Got a direct ride to Osh for free ! Didn't expect that but hey, you never know. Hitchhiking is a rollercoaster 🎢 Thanks Boryo ! M33

Direction KYZART/OSH Not much traffic but Okay. Got a ride to Kyzart on a truck. M24

Got a ride further on the road to Osh. Deo Gratias ! M+50 and M+20

Direction OSH/KOCHKOR/BISHKEK Worked well, was taken by Christian Kirghiz to Kochkor. Thanks Tegiz M29

So I slept in this taxi's family hoise. He told me we will leave for Bishkek at 7/8. He was still sleeping at 8. Then we took breakfast and we went on the avtovogzal. He was waiting for clients to show up... So I told him I'm going to hitchike and he finally agreed to drop me in Kochkor for 1000 son even tho I said yesterday I don't pay for taxi... But he hosted me so fair enough. Then he said he's going to search for client in Naryn. I asked him just to drop me at the end of the city I am not waiting for him. God give me the patience to overcome my animal hatred against him

No traffic, kinda lost, needed to go back. A taxi driver stopped and brought me into his house with his family. He said he can bring me to Bishkek tomorrow but I told him I don't want to pay cause I lost my credit card. He accepted first but later still asked me how much I want to contribute for gas. Fair enough I will give him something. I will however go to Kochkor (it's on the way) and hitchhike there to Osh. Thank you Anarvik M54.

Was taken in 5 minutes to Ugut where I realised I cannot really go further West. Locals told me I should go back and take the road to Kochkor or trough the mountains. Taken by family with driver M60

In my experience, it's better to get to this point as sometimes cars arrive from the small track instead of the main road. Not much traffic but eventually someone will take you. Almost everyone driving here goes to Kyrgyzstan, but if you find someone heading to Rangkul it can be nice to change of setting a bit !

Trucker from Kyrgyzstan took me all the way to the 80/84 split east of Salt Lake.

Take a bus until the final stop(terminal), escape the taxi drivers and go past the gate. If you walk a bit there is a bunch of great spots. Keep in mind, that the karamyk border crossing to kyrgyzstan is closed for foreigners (07.2025)

Not long before a Semi pulled over. Unfortunately he had to drop us off after a couple miles because of the weigh station. Weigh station turned out to be closed but it was too late. Trucker was a cool guy from Kyrgyzstan.

Outside the gas station. Thumb out directly on road using sign as well. Good spot for east towards kegen, kaindy lake and Kyrgyzstan. A bit messy with slip roads etc by the side of a fast 2 lane road, but it worked as people pulled over in the slip road. Drivers where a shared taxi, spoke zero English but basic Russian worked. They wanted 4000t (7.50 EURO) to legend. I could have rejected but as it was getting dark and in a hurry I paid. Driver was honest and fun and waited with the foreign idiot.

Crossed the border from Kazakhstan to Kyrgyzstan in the middle of May. The guards were nice and chilling. We crossed at 2 or 3 pm and there was no traffic at all. Got the ride with the first passing car after 1,5h of walking. The landscapes are awesome.

nice spot to start your way to the south of Kyrgyzstan. waiting time less than 1 hour p.s. never refuse to h-hike to ecological checkpoint after Sosnovka siberian_explorer