Rock paintings of South Kazakhstan.

“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not” 

Ralph Waldo Emerson. “Emerson's Essays”.

Visit to Botamoynak cave.

Botamoynak Cave is located on the western slope of the Kyrgyz Alatau, at an altitude of 750 meters above sea level in the Zhambyl district of the Zhambyl region. To the nearest village of Akbulym (the former village of Ilyich), to the west, about 4 kilometers, the village is the administrative center of the Akbulym rural district.
From the cave to Mount Botamoynak, which reaches an altitude of 1637.9 meters above sea level - 9 kilometers. Botaimonak Cave was opened in 1896 by the Turkestan circle of archeology lovers, a local history scientific and research organization in the Russian Empire that studied the historical monuments of Central Asia.
In the period from 1957 to 1960, the historian and archaeologist Hasan Alpysbaevich Alpysbaev visited the cave, who at that time led the Karatau Paleolithic detachment. HA. Alpysbaev suggested that South Kazakhstan was one of the centers of settlement of ancient people.
On the walls of the cave are ancient cave paintings.

Authority photos
Alexander Petrov.