Visas
You can get the tourist visa in any Kyrgyz Embassy or in the Consular department under the preliminary invitation.
Cost of the Visa varies.
The visa can be issued directly after the arrival to Manas airport.
You can get the visa in the Russian or Kazakh Representation if there is no Representation of the Kyrgyz Republic in your country.

The list of the countries which citizens can receive entrance/exit visa in diplomatic representatives and consular establishments of the Kyrgyz republic abroad, and also in consular agency Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kyrgyz Republic at airport Manas on the basis of personal application on month:

GIS citizens (except Turkmenistan) do not need the visa.

The list of the countries concerning which citizens the visa-free mode of entrance to Kyrgyzstan operates:

Registration
After the arrival in Kyrgyzstan you should register in a department passport and visa registration (OVIR) and specify a place where you have stopped within three working days. If you don’t have the registration you will have to pay fine – 1000 soms (about 20 Euro)
Our Company offers registration services; it costs 15 Euro per person.
And visa support (takes 7-10 working days)

Embassies of foreign states in the Kyrgyzstan >>

Embassies of Kyrgyzstan abroad >>

Formalities during traveling
If you are going to visit boundary zones of Kyrgyzstan you need to have permit.

Boundary zones of Kyrgyzstan
Osh oblast (Alai and Chon-Alai regions)
Naryn oblast (At-Bashy region)
Issyk-Kul oblast (As-Suu and Djety-Oguz regions)
Batken oblast (Lailak and Kadamjai region)

Since 2002 permits for climbing Kyrgyz seventhousenders were repealed.

Airlines and timetables
You can arrive to Kyrgyzstan by using of direct flight and arrive to Manas airport in Bishkek or through the airport of Almaty city - Kazakhstan (250 km from Bishkek).

You can use following airlines:
Aeroflot - http://www.aeroflot.ru/ (direct flight to Bishkek)
Pulkovo airlines - http://www.pulkovo.ru/ (direct flight to Bishkek)
Altyn Air - http://www.altynair.kg/
Itek Air (direct flight to Bishkek)
Siberian airlines (direct flight to Bishkek)
Ut Air - http://www.utair.ru/ (direct flight to Bishkek)
Turkish airlines - http://www.thy.com/ (direct flight to Bishkek)
The British airlines - http://www.britishairways.com/ (direct flight to Bishkek)
Lufthansa - http://www.lufthansa.com/ (flight to Almaty)
KLM - http://www.klm.com/ (flight to Almaty)
Manas airport flights schedule: http://timetable.airport.kg/csp/adp/fids.csp

Currency exchange
Banknotes 100 and 50 US dollars, issued before 1996 will be exchanged lower rate then banknotes which were issued after 1996.You can easily exchange your currency in any exchange bureau. Here is official foreign exchange rates >>

Public transport and taxis
Bishkek is served by a network of a taxi, buses and trolley buses. The municipal transportation is inexpensive and reliable. In Bishkek it is possible easily and with small expenses to go round all around. The prices for public transport are fluctuating from 3 up to 5 Soms. The cost of a taxi is fluctuating from 60 up to 150 soms depending on distance. At night the price is rises.
Bishkek is small sity so getting there on foot or by any kind of transport is very easy. The municipal transportation (minibuses and trolley buses) start working from 5:30-6:00 o'clock in the morning up to 21:00-22:30 o'clock in the evening. The taxi can be found in all big cities. Passengers should coordinate payment for travel in advance.
Taxi service is widely available. It is quiet cheap and qualitative.
Taxi services phones

Transport rental
You can rent transport with driver only. Additionally you have to pay food and accomodation for driver

Phones
The international code of the Kyrgyz Republic is +996. Trunk calls can be made from public telephone booths (usually work as a part of post offices) or from card payphones in streets (are available in the cities of Bishkek, Оsh, Karakol, Naryn). It is possible to call abroad also from hotel, in this case you need to ask a reception or persons on duty on a floor about it. Calls on city are usually free-of-charge, if they are made from home telephone; in hotels for such call can take a small payment. At local calls it is not necessary to type a code of the country.

Street phones. there are a lot of Street card and monetary phones in Bishkek. The coin calls counter and you can buy it in every news stall. It costs 5 Soms and provides connection only on internal telephone lines. From street card phones (payphones) it is possible to make both internal and international calls. Cards are issued by face value in 50, 100, 200 and 400 units. Cards of various face values differ among themselves the prices which established by Kyrgyz Telecom.

The central public telephone booth (the Chuy Prospect, 96; Phone: 626045, 662561;
Working hours: are Monday till Saturday, from 7:00 till, on Sunday and in holidays from 8:00 till 19 00).

Internet-cafes offers services of an IP-telephony under the prices much below usual calls.

Referral service - 160, 109
Informational service Bishkek-Info - 0-800-777-7-777 (call free)
First aid - 103
Militia - 102
Fire service - 101
Paid medical service - 151
Service of rescue - 161
Road militia (road accident in Bishkek city) - 53-01-81
Road militia (road accident in Republic) - 63-09-00, 63-09-01
Mountain search and rescue service - 61-13-22
Railway station – 62-48-65
Bus terminal – 65-65-75
Airport - 90-31-09

Mobile phones
You can use your mobile if you have GSM, TDMA standard or have roaming for Kyrgyzstan;
BITEL GSM - GSM, http://www.bitel.kg/
KATEL - TDMA, http://www.katel.kg/
FONEX - CDMA, http://www.fonex.kg/
Megacom - GSM http://www.megacom.kg/

Shops
Prices in shops are fixed, but at the bazaar you can discuss the price it is even needed when you bargain with sellers they hold you in high respect. There are plenty of bazaars in Bishkek, where you can buy everything from food to clothes (Osh, Alamedin and Dordoi bazaars) bazaars are noisy and absolutely out of order. You will also find lots of souvenir shops where you can buy traditional Kyrgyz handicrafts.