Shaar Waterfall. Kyrgyzstan 🇰🇬

AIRVŪZ STAFF NOTE : For a first upload to AirVuz, brand-new contributor chingiz_life brings us this excellent drone video of what is believed to be the tallest waterfall in Central Asia. It's called Shaar Waterfall, and it's located in the Naryn Region of south-central Kyrgyzstan. Situated in a gorge of the Bash-Kaindy River, the falls has a drop of about 720 ft. or around 220 m. Including the cascades, the total drop of the waterfall is about 1.3k ft. or around 400 m. The altitude here is about 10.5k ft. above sea level or around 3.2k m.

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Shar Waterfall is also known as a Shaar waterfall or the Bash-Kaindy waterfall and is located in Bash-Kayunday gorge in the Naryn region of Kyrgyzstan.

The height of the free falling Shar waterfall is 220 m, but taking into account the cascades it is about 400 m making it the highest waterfall in Kyrgyzstan, Central Tian Shan area and in the whole Central Asia. Shaar waterfall sits at the height of 3200 m above sea level in the gorge of the Bash-Kaindy river. Nearest settlements to Shar are Birlik, At-Bashi and Bash-Kaindy together with the Taldy-Suu and Birinchi May villages. A good example of the proportion of Shar waterfall is that you can even see it from as far as the Naryn-Torugart road that runs through the At-Bashi village and is 20 km away.