Chalk Mountains – Aktau

Your driver will meet you at Aktau airport, arriving from Almaty, and transfer you to the hotel.

Enjoy your leisure time.

Check-in to your hotel in Aktau

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After breakfast, your guide and driver will meet you at your hotel and depart for a tour in the rural area with comfortable jeeps and with a local Russian-speaking guide. Zhygylgan Cavity - the tour includes visiting a huge Zhygylgan Cavity in the form of a large circle with a diameter up to 10 km, one edge of which goes into the sea, formed as a result of the serious soil slips. Canyon Kapamsay – moving on to the chalk canyon called Kapamsay, where you will listen to the legend about Kapam batyr, and you will see the narrow Chalk Canyon that is formidable with its steep walls reaching heights of 70 m. Meals - lunch (lunch box) and dinner are organized as a picnic.

Overnight in tents.

Shakatak at an underground mosque - it used to be the Sun Temple in ancient times, and now it is one of the most beautiful mosques in Mangystau. It is the historical and cultural monument of the Х centuries. Gloomy, bite the thick walls, painted with figures and characters, spaces hidden from the sanctuary of heaven and earth, of human voices. Kumakapy Canyon – moving into the canyon Kapi, where you will walk among the thickets of tamarisk. The valley of spherical stone concretions Toryish - during this tour, you will also visit the Toryish valley, enveloped in the attention of scientists, archaeologists, even urologists, and, of course, the tourists. Mountain Sherkala - rests at the root of a mountain Sherkala, a unique creation of nature, steeped in human legends. Sherkala mountain is a natural object in which one viewing point looks like a giant yurt. Walking tour around the mountain.

Overnight in national yurts in “Kogez”.

Airakty and Shomanay, as they are known among the locals, is a system of small mountains. Shomanay Mountains look like fairy tale castles with steeples, towers, colonnades, and walls. A winding path, trodden by semi-wild horses, atop one of the mountains ends onto a platform, offering a panoramic view of distant Aktau Mountains and all of the Airakty Castles. Carved drawings, called by one of the researchers “Desert Symphonies”, are seen in the chalk rock fragments along the sides of Airakty. Breakfast and dinner in the ethnographic village «Kogez», Lunch in the field conditions, prepared by a professional chef.

Overnight in national yurts in “Kogez”.

Further departure to the area of the Karatau Mountains (black mountains). Arrive in the canyons of colored clay, where you have an opportunity to walk through the Colored Canyon, where every turn offers a new kind of colored rock with amazing shapes and colors. Walking through the picturesque canyons. Tuzbair – Tuzbair is a majestic creation of natural elements. Here, the Ustyurt Cliff steeply breaks by a cascade of clay-limestone and chalk steps, at the bottom of which lies a vast salt marsh, called in this region, Sor. Chalk Cliffs are scoured and riddled with deep channels, forming innumerable ranges of fantastic columns. Lunch and dinner in field conditions.

Overnight in tents in Tuzbair.

Bozzhira - is a side part of Ustyurt Plateau, where Mother Nature has freed her imagination, creating an unearthly landscape in white. The small valley of Bozzhira is surrounded by an amphitheater of natural oddities on three sides. Everything there is white in color; canyons, peaks, mountain towers, mountain castles, and mountain yurts. Bozzhira relict mountains, like chameleons, change their appearance as you walk between them. These relics, like silent guards, peer into the hazy distance guarding the peace of the majestic symbol of Mangystau – the giant stone yurt. The true master of the yurt is the lonely wind mournfully singing the steppe songs to the endless skies. Meals in field conditions.

Overnight in tents in Bozzhira.

After breakfast, drive to Aktau city, through the Beket-Ata and Tuesu sand. Breakfast and lunch in field conditions. Dinner at a local restaurant in Aktau.

Overnight at the hotel.

After breakfast, your guide will meet you at your hotel and start the city tour in Aktau «Marine gates of Kazakhstan». The excursion program includes an Aktau sightseeing tour of the most interesting and memorable places of the city, a short walk along the promenade, and familiarity with the history, culture, and memorial monuments of the city.

After lunch, transfer to Aktau airport for a flight to Almaty for your next destination.