The pedestrian tour on gorges Dzungarskiy Alatau.

«A lake is the landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature»

Henry David Thoreau.

Trip on jeeps to gorge Kora in Dzungarskiy Alatau.

Tekeli and the Kora Valley In spite of its off-putting factory chimneys, the relatively new mining town of Tekeli is actually quite a picturesque place. Situated where the rivers Tekeli, Chizhe and Kora flow together to form the Karatal.
It is the entrance to the Korinskoe ushchelye - the 60- kilometers long, and by and large uninhabited. In spite of its off-putting factory chimneys, the relatively new mining town of Tekeli is actually quite a picturesque place.
The Kora, a wild stream fed by glaciers, forms a beautiful waterfall, the Burkhan Bulak. more than 90 metres high, in its upper reaches.
47-kilorrielre long hiking trail leads to the place, or you can drive or ride by jeep or mountain bike for 20 kilometres until you come to a farm with the cheerful name Ninth Bee Meadow, from where you can rent a horse cheaply and quietly trot to the waterfall.
As an alternative or extension you can also make a long but very beautiful one-day trip to the Bcssonova (.lacier, which begins 15 kilometres upstream from Ninth Bee Meadow. 
A particularly interesting attraction the valley offers is its relatively large population of Tien-Shan brown bears. In spring, accompanied by a gamekeeper, you can venture into the wilderness with a good chance of observing one of the hungry bears through binoculars, recently woken from hibernation and looking for food.
For fishermen, the osman, a capricious, predatory fish that usually only bites during the second half of the day, lives in the crystal-clear streams of this region. 
The passes and glaciers in this area arc no less fascinating than those in the Zailiyskiy Alatau. even though climbing up to the glaciers Tronova, Ayuksayskiy, Saposlmikova and Altynsarina requires good mountaineering expertise.
And remember: you are in a border area and must be in possession of a valid ntry permit.

Authority:
The guidebook across Kazakhstan . Authors Dagmar Schreiber and Jeremy Tredinnick. Publishing house "Odyssey".2010.

Photos
Alexander Petrov.