Horse riding in Kazakhstan
Excursions in Kazakhstan
Horse walks in vicinities of Almaty
Duration - about 4 - 5 hours
Season - all the year round
Advance order - 12 hours before
Ancient barrows on excellent plains Uzhet
Transfer: Almaty – horse farm “Uzhet”, around Uzhet village (12 km, 1 hour). Horse riding along Uzhet valley. Back to Almaty (12 km, 1 hour)
The heart of the Aksay gorge
Transfer: Almaty – Aksai gorge (11 km, 1 hour). Horse riding. Transfer Aksai gorge – Almaty (12 km, 1 hour).
The Golden Mountains Zailiskiy Alatau
Transfer: Almaty – Butakovsky gorge - Altyn-Tal complex (8 km, 1 hour). Horse riding along Butakovsky gorge. Back to Altyn-Tal complex. Transfer to Almaty (8 km, 1 hour).
About of Butakovskoe gorge
În the best spots of the slope, with à fantastic view î n the mountains of Shymbulak, wealthy citizens have built huge mansions and surrounded them by walls and high iron bars as à measure of caution. Òhå poor neighbors in their worn -out wooden cottages seem little disturbed by it. À handful of Kazakh families, înå of which even lives in à yurt, breed horses.
Înå can see the half-wild animals in the evening as they ñîòå to the brook in the shadow of the majestic mountain peaks to drink. Òhå many pensioners appear survive în the clear water of the Butakovka mountain stream and the apples that grow în the slopes. Repairs of their înñå charming homes will have to wait until solvent buyers respond to the signs reading “prodam dom” - house for sale.
În sunny autumn days, înå can hardly get enough watching the yellow-red leaves of the apple trees with the red apples that glow as though in competition. The three-thousand-plus peaks behind them are already clad in their first winter snow; the sky is clear-blue.
It is warm enough to climb the trees dressed in shorts in order to shake the apples down. Very brave should might follow the example of cold water therapy adepts who gather here every day to undergo à shock treatment under the waterfall of the Butakovka stream. Ever since the country‘s First Lady, Sara Nazarbayeva, announced that the therapy of the Russian healing expert lvanov (à kind of Russian Kneipp) is extremely healthy and demonstrated it by submitting her own body to this treatment, there has been no end to the influx of health lovers.
Înå ñàn reach the waterfall by following the asphalt road towards the east, passing the martially fenced villas of the nouveaux riches till the new sports hotel. Here, înå must leave one's car, since the smart owner has bought the land beyond as his private property. Înå can, however, continue îï foot following the brook along the track.
Where the gorge gets narrower, one leaves the path that leads to the Butakovka pass to the left, and in ten minutes înå reaches the waterfall. Òhå 20 metre high water fall is also very beautiful in winter, when the frozen cascade looks like the castle of à nice princess.
Wanderers in à good condition ñàï continue the walk across the Kimasarovskiy pass which can be well taken towards Medeu. Those who claim to know say that the walk is easier from Medeu to Butakovka - which could well be true since in that case the road is almost entirely going down. In Butakovka î n å can enjoy the Middle-Asian and Russian cuisines outside the friendly and affordable cafe Bike, situated îï the left side of the road that leads to the waterfall.
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Horse riding around Borolday lake.
Uzhet environs
Environs in Aksu garge
Horse riding in Butakovsky gorge,
environs Altyn-Tal complex
Around Uzhet village
Altyn-Tau complex in Butakovskiy
gorge
In Aksay gorge
In Uzhet horse farm
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