Batken
Batken is a town of 16,000 people (2021) in the Ferghana Valley of Kyrgyzstan, close by to the border crossing to Tajikistan.
Understand
[edit]The town was heavily damaged by shelling in the 2022 Kyrgyzstan-Tajikistan clashes.
Get in
[edit]Shared taxis depart when full from Osh, taking about 5 hours and costing 1000 som when not crossing the Uzbek enclave. As the main road between Osh and Batken passes through a small bit of Uzbekistan, remember to ask the driver to go around if you do not have an Uzbek visa in addition to a multiple entry Kyrgyz visa.
- 1 Batken International Airport (Kyrgyz: Баткен эл аралык аэропорту, Russian: Баткенский международный аэропорт). TezJet Airlines flues weekly from Bishkek on Tuesday.
