Undiscovered Zhetysu: from desert to snow of Tien Shan
£ 1,855
Explore Undiscovered Zhetysu – from desert to snow peaks of Tien Shan. During this tour you will visit Altyn emel national park, Charyn canyon and Kolsay and Kaindy lakes and moraine lakes (Akkol and Karakol). You will be able to observe amazing landscapes "Martian hills" and relic willows.Here is history as well, with ancient burial mounds and petroglyphs. You may also see the wild animals living in national park: persian gazells, argali, Przewalski's horses. You will see unique singing sands, chalk Aktau and volcanic Katutau mountains. Singing sand (also called whistling sand or barking sand). The dune is composed of light-colored sand and has a length of about 3 km and a height of 150 m. In dry weather sands emit a sound similar an organ melody. Since ancient times this place was considered supernatural. The legends explained the sound by the activities of the desert spirits, mythical animals, the bells of buried towns, underground rivers etc. The mountains of Aktau belong to the chalk type of the mountains, they were formed from sediments belonging to the era of Cenozoic, which began about 60 million years ago, which makes these mountains historically important. Basically, the composition of the mountains is plastered clay, without any vegetation. Due to this feature, you may feel at the different planet. For a huge amount of time nature cut these mountains, forming canyons with rock layers of white, red and orange colors across the range. Katutau mountains: The mountains consist mainly of lava and volcanic rock, many dikes can also be seen here, these are cracks that were formed as a result of an earthquake or volcanic eruption, and then were filled with magma. The length of such dikes reaches up to 8 kilometers.
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