Ecological tourism in the mountains Kyrgyz Alatau.

"When covered in fog,
Through the dream of mirages and sand
I walked with a lazy caravan
To the wall of invincible ice”

Maximilian Voloshin. Koktebel. November 19, 1919.

Tourism in Kazakhstan mountains.

The northern slopes of the Kyrgyz Alatau are located in the Zhambyl region, in southern Kazakhstan, with a length of 147 kilometers. The ridge stretches from west to east, from the city of Taraz to the village of Merke.
In the eastern part of the ridge is the highest nameless peak, with a height of 4201.6 meters above sea level. In the eastern part of the ridge, a popular peak among climbers is located - the peak of Manas, 3820 meters above sea level.
In the eastern, Kazakhstani part of the ridge, the largest glaciation of the ridge is concentrated, approximately, for a length of 18 kilometers. Here is the largest glacier in the Kazakh part of the Kyrgyz Alatau - Kazakhstan glacier, with a length of more than 2 kilometers.
From here, from the glaciers, their rivers begin - Kumbel, Merkenka, Merke. More than 11 moraine lakes are concentrated here in the highland part. On the Kyrgyz ridge passes the state border with the Kyrgyz Republic.
The southern slopes of the Kyrgyz Alatau are located in the Talas region of Kyrgyzstan. To the west, the mountains of the Kyrgyz Alatau are declining. The northern slopes are crumbling and ruined mountains. The surface of the ridge is composed of sandstones, limestones and granites of the Carboniferous period.
The ridge has an uneven, strongly dissected surface. The Kyrgyz Alatau, on the Kazakh side, has a type of alpine relief. They also consist of sedimentary igneous rocks of the ancient Paleozoic. The slopes of the mountains are dissected, bear traces of ancient glaciation, differ in alpine type of relief.

Authority:
Books: “The Nature of the Trans-Ili Alatau”, M.Zh. Zhandaev, ed. Kazakhstan, Alma-Ata, 1978 “Across the Northern Tien Shan,” V.N. Vukolov, Moscow, Profizdat, 1991. Pozdeev-Bashta A. Mountain trails in Almaty. - 2nd ed. - Almaty, 1998. Pospelov E. M. To the tourist about geographical names. - M., 1988. A. Gorbunov. Mountains of Central Asia. Explanatory Dictionary of Geographical Names and Terms. " - Almaty, 2006. Murzaev EM. Geography in the names. - M., 1982

Photos
Alexander Petrov.