INTRODUCTION

When The Celestial Mountains Tour Company was started in 1997, our Webpage was quite short.

Then, people started asking us questions … and we put the answers onto the Webpage … and slowly it grew.

It is not meant to be a guide book in the traditional sense — or a work or reference. Rather, it is a collection of information, culled from many sources, about the country, the people, the culture and lifestyle.

It is a work in progress … as we get more questions, maybe we will add more to the text.

The NEWS page carries the most recent updates. Over the course of time information from this page will be incorporated into the main body of text.

On the original website there was a gallery of photographs. We made a deliberate decision that the Web site would be text based — to make downloading the information quicker. As the technology has improved we have decided to include a selection of photographs on most of the pages. They can only be a taster, to whet your appetite, however, as nothing can replace being in a place and experiencing at first hand the beauty of the scenery and nature.

The photographs have been provided by ourselves, and two of our collegues here in Kyrgyzstan — Alexander Rusin and Victor Polynsky. You can see more of Victor’s photographs on his website at : www.polynsky.com.kg

The latest version of the website is available as an Information Pack in pdf format (approximately 1250KB) — ask for a copy to be emailed to you.