The history of the settlement near the gorge has a long and rich history and it was named after a pioneer from the inhabitants of the Russian provinces. He studied and applied for permission to settle in these places for immigrants from Russia. The researcher of these places was named Grigory Lytikov, who made two trips to this area, the first was unsuccessful, and from the second in 1912 he brought his fellow countrymen permission from the authorities to settle here. That's how the village was named after him - Grigoryevka, and then the gorge - Grigoryevsky.

You can write a lot and beautifully about the natural splendor of Kyrgyzstan. But sometimes no words or epithets will convey the description of a picturesque place. You just need to come and see it, and even that delight will lead you into a mute stupor, because when you see a unprecedented fascinating picture, you just want to be silent, not speak, and no words are possible - that's when you understand the scarcity of spoken language, because there are things so inexpressible - you just absorb them with your body, with every cell of the body, the soul. But we can try to convey the feeling.

So, Grigoriev gorge or in Kyrgyz - Chon Ak_Suu, which means "Big White River". This is what they say about a blissful place where staying has a beneficial effect on the human body. Everything here radiates beauty - in any off-season, but people come here exclusively in the summer. And nature is almost untouched by human hands, except for a few guest buildings, yurts, recreation areas with playgrounds.

Giant trees there are on inaccessible mountain slopes and you can feel the intoxicating scent of pine needles. The air, the atmosphere here is a special topic. You breathe in the clean, healing air and are saturated with invisible, but so necessary to the body particles of health. Nature is pristine! The sun, the mountains, the river, the coniferous forests. And people tend to come here in the summer to live in the bosom of Mother Nature, soak up the warm sun rays, plunge into the crystal mountain river, wander through the mountains and gather environmentally friendly mushrooms, blackberries, currants, rosehip, barberry, wild herbs, plants, which the locals from nearby villages do.

There are three wonderful lakes in the gorge – Lower, Middle, Upper, and each of them is beautiful in its own way. The gorge attracts tourists, travelers, explorers and lovers of mountain hiking – here are the places of extraordinary beauty, but how important it is to explain to lovers of mountain hiking to protect the beauty and clean up the garbage, not to light bonfires in the wrong places, to explain and let them know to leave behind them order and cleanliness. It's so important for the environment. Not only to come and see, but also to clean up all the garbage after yourself, keep clean, and take care of everything created by nature.

It is better to come here for a few days just to heal from negative thoughts, from diseases in the body - everything is favorable for this, therefore, at the height of the season, starting from April-May, the place calls for healing days of mare's milk treatment, and in summer - koumiss, milk from cows, goats grazing in the mountainous jailoos (summer pasture). The yurts attract visitors with mouth-watering smells of steaming dishes cooked over a campfire, in the fresh air – here you can taste everything - lagman, manti, pilaf, in general, the delights of oriental cuisine.

And if you're lucky, you can order real eco-friendly processed products in guest yurts for a certain sum and taste them - cottage cheese, cheese, kaymak, chobogo, sary mai (ghee) and many more masterpieces of Kyrgyz national cuisine - kattama, zhupka, oromo, beshbarmak, kuurdak, gulchatai, kesme, shorpo and much more. Since ancient times, the Kyrgyz have always prepared soft drinks in the summer - koumiss, zharma, oatmeal bozo.

The ancient nomadic culture has been preserved to this day - most Kyrgyz who keep cattle in the summer always migrate to jailoo, so here you can see herds of horses, herds of cows and goats. Livestock is the wealth of a nomad. Proper maintenance increases the offspring, and this ensures that you have everything you need on the table at any time of the year. And in such a place, from early spring to late autumn, everything blooms, the surrounding landscape is full of everything you need. In late autumn, it gets noticeably colder and the gorge freezes, yurt camps and guest houses are closed, smoke from the yurts is not visible and the voices of tourists and visitors are not heard - everything is closed. Travelers and guests come less often, and people are less likely to be seen.

But I would like to tell you about the winter beauty of the Grigoriev Gorge - it is especially beautiful in the icy cold, where the river water breaks through under the ice, when coniferous trees decorated in the most expensive fluffy snow-white fur coats from the best couturier of the Universe, the Almighty, and huge spaces are covered with the most expensive carpets decorated with myriads of delicate lace, there are so many patterns and all this glitters so dazzlingly - it sparkles in the sun that no man-made rhinestones and sequins can compare with the exclusive and unique masterpieces of the Creator. Happiness is to see such splendor and stay among such beauty for a while, when Nature itself is stunned by its indescribable outfits.

Very soon spring will solemnly burst in here and awaken all life around, and again from early spring to late autumn, not only the singing trills of birds, but also human speech will be heard here, the hubbub of leaves and catkins of birch groves, the bleating of sheep and the neighing of horses, the lowing of cows and the barking of guard dogs, but most importantly, the river will gurgle even louder and the infectious laughter of children will echo, and for all this it is worth coming here and seeing everything with your own eyes.