Horse riding in Kazakhstan
Excursions in Kazakhstan
Horse riding along Aksu-Dzhabagly reserve
Unique nature in Talasskiy Alatau
Duration - 2 days
Season - all the year round
Advance order - 3 days before
The program of tour:
1 Day. Friday. Departure at 17.25 by train “Otrar”. Overnight in train.
2 Days. Saturday . Arrival to train station Tyulkubas at 06.57. Meeting with guide and transfer to Zhabagly village (18 km). Accommodation in guest house. Breakfast. Horse riding to valley Topshak. Lunch-picnic. Horse-riding continue. Back to guest house. Dinner. Overnight.
3 Days. Sunday. Breakfast. Horse riding to Kshi-Kaindy gorge. Horse riding environs of Kshi-Kaindy gorge. Back to guest house. Lunch. Excursion to Nature Museum. Dinner. Transfer to Tyulkubas train station. Departure at 19.52. Night in train.
4 Days. Monday. Arrival in Almaty at 9.00.
About of Aksu-Dzhabagly reserve
Aksu-Dzhabagly reserve situated at western extremity of Talassky Alatau range in Western Tien-Shan. It was organized in May 1927 It was first reserve in Central Asia and Kazakhstan.
Aksu-Dzhabagly Preserve is the only preserve in Kazakhstan or Central Asia to receive the status of a UNESCO biosphere preserve. For more than 70 years the mountain woods here are safe from an ax, grass from scythe and rivers from industrial pollution. Fresh greenery is all around.
The Greig's Tulip is selected as symbol of the preserve. Unique creation of nature is Aksu Canyon. This giant canyon is 15 km long and 500 m deep. Nature is rich and various and the reserve includes about 1,200 species of plants, 42 kinds of animals, 238 kinds of birds.
At the altitude of more than 3000 m above sea level there is a paleonthological preserve with petroglyphs referred scientist to the 5-7 cc B.C.
Kshi - Kaindy and Ulken – Kaindy gorges are placed along the rivers with the same names in 12 km and 18 km accordingly to south-east from the Zhabagly Village. Walking up along the gorges you will pass all mountain zones typical for the reserve.
Among rare and endemic plants you will see tree like junipers (Juniperus semiglobosa), Betula talassica, Tulipa greigii, Juno coerulea. In zones of creeping juniper brush woods (Juniper turkestanica) and alpine meadows there are colorful capits of mountain flowers: Tulipa kaufmanniani, T. Tasistemenoides, Colchicum luteum, Thymus dmitrievae, Trollius altaicus, Morina kokanica, Leontopodium ochroleucum. Many of them are endemics of Western Tien-Shan Mountains or presently known only from the Aksu-Zhabagly Reserve (Scutellaria flabellulata).
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Falls in Kshi-Kaindy gorge
Grooms from reserve prepare
horses for walk
Transition in gorge Ulken-Kaindy
Transition to forest to cordon
Topshak
In valley of Darvaza
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