Tours from Karaganda to Aksoran mount

Hiking to Kуzylarai mountains.

Tours from Karaganda to Aksoran mount.

“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page”

Augustine of Hippo.

A short description of the excursion trip to the mountains Kyzylarai:

Almaty - Karaganda - Aktogay settlement - Shabanbai bi settlement – Kyzylarai mountains – Karaganda.

The distance of the route: 753 km.
Season: May - September.
Duration of the tour: 5 days, 4 nights.
Best time for the tour: July, August.

A detailed program by trip from Karaganda to Aktogay village:

Trip from Karaganda to Balkhash town.

Day 1. Almaty - Karaganda.
Breakfast. Transfer to the airport, departure to Karaganda, arrival. Meeting at the airport, transfer to hotel, accommodation. City tour, a visit to the Karaganda Regional Museum of History and Local Lore. The museum is the largest museum in the area.
The museum was opened in November 1932. In 1936, the museum’s funds were replenished with a collection of archaeological finds sent by an expedition of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Visit to the regional mosque - a cultural and scientific center located in the ethnographic park named after the 10th anniversary of Independence.
Visit to the Pitmen’s Palace of Culture located on Bukhar-Zhyrau Avenue. The construction of this magnificent palace began in 1940. On the pediment of this building there are six sculptures: a miner, a builder, a shepherd with a lamb, a collective farmer with a sheaf of wheat, Kazakh singer with a dombra and a warrior.
Here is a visit to the monument Miner's Glory. A visit to the Ecological Museum, this is a one-of-a-kind museum; its opening was in 1995. A visit to the cathedral in the name of the Vvedeniya into the Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the construction of this temple was started in 1991, ended in 2000.
A visit to the Museum of Fine Arts, in the museum you can see the painting of Karaganda, arts and crafts.
Transfer: Karagandy - Aktas village - Dubovka village - Dolinka village (37 km). Arrival in the village of Dolinka, a visit to the museum in memory of victims of political repression. Return to Karaganda. Transfer to the hotel, dinner, overnight.
Day 2. Karaganda - Dolinka village - Spassky memorial (148).
Breakfast. Transfer: Karaganda - Aktas village - Dubovka village - Dolinka village (37 km). Arrival in the village of Dolinka, a visit to the museum in memory of victims of political repression.
The Dolinka Museum is represented by 17 exhibition halls in which:
Entrance group with the composition "Broken Shanyrak".
Hall number 1 "Hunger in Kazakhstan."
Hall number 2 "History of the creation of Karlag.
Hall number 3 "The economic activity of Karlag."
Hall number 4 "Women and children."
Hall number 5 "Research activities of prisoners of Karlag."
“Installation of a pre-trial detention center” and others.
Visit "Mamochkino Cemetery" in the village of Dolinka.
Transfer: Dolinka village - Dubovka village - Kurminskoye village - Zhumabek village - Spassky memorial (77 km). Arrival at the Spassky Memorial. Walk around the memorial. Spassky Memorial or Spassky Memorial Cemetery of Camp No. 99, is located 34 km in the south of Karaganda in the Abay district of the Karaganda region.
It contained political prisoners and internees, and since 1941, prisoners of war. According to official figures, more than five thousand prisoners are buried here in mass graves. The system of Karaganda camps included many camps and special purpose zones.
Transfer: Spassky Memorial - Karaganda (34 km). Arrival in Karaganda. Transfer to the hotel, dinner, overnight
Transfer: Spassky Memorial - Kashkarbai Village - Aksu-Ayuly Village (93 km). Arrival in the village of Aksu-Ayuly, lunch at a local cafe.
Transfer: Aksu-Ayuly village - Shabanbai bi mausoleum (18 km). On the way, visit the Shabanbai bi mausoleum, which is located on the right side of the small Sherabaynur river and 1 kilometer west of the highway. Here is the burial place of the famous Kazakh biy - Shabanbai Kalkamanuly.
Further transfer: Shabanbai bi mausoleum - Nura settlement - Zhalanash settlement - Usharal settlement - Aktogay settlement (105 km). The village of Aktogay is the administrative center of the Aktogay district of the Karaganda region. Visit to the archaeological and ethnographic museum in Aktogai.
The museum has 2435 exhibits, the collection contains exhibits on archeology, ethnography and decorative and applied art. The creation of the museum was facilitated by numerous monuments of archeology and cultural heritage in the territory of the Aktogay region.
Ancient monuments, starting from the Stone Age and the Bronze Age, ending with the epochs of Saks, Huns, Turks, Kipchaks. In front of the museum there are mock-ups of barrows with a "usy" and dummies of the Turkic and Kipchak periods.
Transfer: Aktogay village - Shabanbai bi village (41 km). Arrival in Shabanbai bi village, accommodation in a guest house, a walk in the vicinity of the village, dinner, overnight.
Day 3. Walking in the mountains of Kyzylarai (70 km).
Breakfast. Transfer: Shabanbai bi village - Torkor valley (10 km). Walk in the environs of the valley. The Kyzylarai mountain range consists of several separate independent mountains. Our walk in the environs of the highest peak of the Kyzylarai mountains in the Myrzakozha mountains.
We will visit the small waterfall Myrzakozha, beautiful weathered granite stones, similar to various fantastic sculptures on the background of pine trees in these mountains. The Myrzakozha mountains extend in the latitudinal direction and are located east of the village of Shabanbai bi. I hope we are lucky, and we will be able to meet deer and very rare argali in Kazakhstan in these mountains.
Further transfer: Torkor valley - Axoran valley (7 km). Walks in the environs of the valley Aksoran. The Kyzylarai Mountains are mainly composed of sedimentary and igneous rocks, among which granites, porphyrites, quartzites, sandstones and schists predominate. Intermountain valleys and slopes are covered with dense pine forests, and plains of beautiful mountains grow birch groves.
Transfer: valley Aksoran - valley Shaban (21 km). Walk in the environs of the valley. One of the natural attractions of the Kyzylarai massif is its pine forests that grow on granite rocks, this is the southernmost place of pine distribution in the Central Kazakhstan ecological system, bordered by desert expanses.
In the Kyzylarai mountains is located the Auliye valley, which fascinates with its magnificent views and colorful landscapes.
Transfer: Shaban valley - Shabanbai bi village (32 km). Arrival in Shabanbai bi village, rest, dinner, overnight.
Day 4. Walking in the mountains of Kyzylarai (18 km).
Breakfast. Transfer: Shabanbai bi village - Arai valley (3 km). A walk in the environs of the valley Arai.
Transfer: valley Arai - Aulie mountains (8 km). A walk in the beautiful mountains, here are the peaks of Shadyrbai and Auliye peak 1274 meters high above sea level. Climbing in the Aulie mountains, visiting a small lake in the rocks among the granites.
Fom the top of the ridge to the south, a panorama of the entire Kyzylarai mountain range opens. Descent from the ridge and visit the Aulie cave.
Transfer: Auliye mountains - Shabanbai bi village (7 km). Arrival in the village, rest, dinner, overnight.
Day 5. Village Shabanbai bi - Karaganda (294 km).
Breakfast. Transfer: Shabanbai bi village - Aktogay village - Aksu-Ayuly – Karaganda town.
Arrival in Karaganda, the end of the trip.