BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan — Kyrgyz youth are “pedaling” a new plan to boost tourism and employment: a 300-mile bicycle route around the beautiful environs of the world’s 10th largest lake — Issyk-Kul, in the Tian Shan mountains of eastern Kyrgyzstan.

A youth group called the Bai Issyk-Kul Foundation came up with the idea for the bike route, which will circumnavigate Lake Issyk-Kul — and which planners hope will create jobs from the cafes, markets, and bicycle rental and repair shops that will spring up along the route.

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