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Ninety seconds on Altyn Arashan
Stay the night. The drive up the valley is long both ways, so use the hot springs in the evening instead of squeezing them between transfers.
Getting up the valley takes most of the day, so a day trip is a very long one. The springs are three groups of thermal water on the right bank of the Arashan river.
Do not expect open pools under the peaks: the hot sulphurous water is in the resort's wooden sheds. Forest fills the valley floor, and Pik Palatka, at 5,020 metres, stands at the head of it.
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