Private tour price depends on the number of people in the group, including children aged 4 and over. A child participates in the tour at the price of an adult. The price (per person) indicated below is for a group of 2 persons.

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DETAILS AND CONDITIONS OF THE TOUR

GENERAL INFORMATION AND BOOKING TERMS:
Tour Rates Include: transportation according to the program in a comfortable air-comditioned minibus or SUV, accommodation in the stationery campsite on Day 3, professional English-speaking guide service and excursions according to the program; environmental fees; meals (lunch and dinner on Day 1; full board on Days 2 and 3; breakfast and lunch on Day 4); drinkin water, all necessary camping equipment (except for sleeping bags).
Tour Rates Exclude: accommodation in Almaty (if required), mountain bike rent (10 USD per day), sleeping bag, meals not indicated in the program and/or not included into the tour price, visa support and registration in the territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan (if required), personal expenses and other expenses not indicated in the program.
Booking Terms: Full payment is required for tour reservation. Accepted methods of payment: cash in local currency, wire transfer, bank card.
Cancellation Terms: 50% of the tour price is not refundable in case of tour cancellation less than 3 days before tour departure date. Tour price is not refundable in case of tour cancellation 24 hours or less before tour departure time, as well as in case of no-show.
Group Size: Minimum - 1 person, maximum - 10 people.

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Itinerary:

1 Day

Almaty - Boguty Mountains

2 Day

Boguty Mountains - Temirlik Canyon

3 Day

Temirlik Canyon - Charyn Canyon

4 Day

Charyn Canyon - Almaty

Almaty - Kokpek Pass - Boguty Mountains

After meeting with a guide and landing in the excursion transport at 08:00 You will leave Almaty to the village of Bayseit, where You will have lunch in a local cafe. Then transfer to Kokpek pass and beginning of cycling part towards Boguty mountain range. Upon arrival, You will set a camp and have rest. If You want You can go on a bike ride through the canyons of the mountains of Boguty.
Overnight at the tent camp at the altitude of 800 m above s.l.
Cycling part on this day is about 30 km

Fantastic and extraordinarily red mountains of Boguty are two massifs - Ulken Boguty and Bala Boguty, located east of the city of Almaty. These mountains are the foothills of the mountain system of the Trans-Ili Alatau and stretch between Charyn and Chilik rivers. The unusualness of these mountains is the fact that they do not need to be climbed, on the contrary, they must be descended along the road. And only descended into the steppe, you can get to the mountains. In these places in the distant past there was an active volcano. This is indicated by the numerous lumps of petrified volcanic ash. A real basalt, which is a volcanic product. But, according to geologists, 250 million years ago volcanic activity on this territory was stopped. Also here, a long time ago there was a large lake, traces of which in the form of sedimentary rocks occur literally at every step. These mountains allow you to feel your presence on Mars planet.

Boguty Mountains - Confluence of Temirlik and Charyn Rivers - Temirlik Canyon

Having breakfast at 09:00 and gathering the camp You will ride bikes to the motorway (16 km). Then take a transfer to a small town wiath a duaint name of Chunja, where you will enjoy a delicious lunch in the best traditions of Uyghur and Chinese cuisine. Then a short road trip (10 km) to the next cycling part of the route - to the confluence of the rivers Temirlik and Charyn (10 km). Here You will be able to relax and admire the surrounding views. Then our cycling route will continue and lead You to the ash grove of Temirlik River Canyon, where You will camp and have dinner by the fire.
Overnight at the tent camp at the altitude of 950 m above s.l.

Temirlik Canyon got its name from a small Temirlik river flowing along its bottom and originating in the valleys of Ketmen ridge. At the shady bottom of the canyon grows Semenov maple, Barberry, Karagan, Halimodendron, Tamarisk, Haloxylon, and rare representative of the Earth flora - the relict Sogdian ash-tree. This unique tree has survived the relict period. In 1964 Ash-tree Groves were declared monuments of nature. Such compact Sogdian ash-tree growth were noted in Kazakhstan and in North America only. Here was noticed a rare representative of the avian world - the black stork. There are also numerous nightingales, turtledoves, cave swallows.

Temirlik Canyon - "Valley of Castles" of Charyn Canyon

Breakfast at 09:00. Packing stuff and exit to another interesting and not complicated part of the cycling route, during which You will have a short drive along the plain part of Toraigyr Valley to a little-known point. It offers a beautiful view of the "Valley of Castles" of Charyn Canyon. Here You will make a halt for lunch with a beautiful view of the "Valley of Castles". This is followed by a small drive directly to the canyon to the "Valley of Castles", where You will stay for overnight, have dineer and rest.
Overnight at the tent camp at the altitude of 920 m above s.l.

Charyn Canyon is a natural complex, unique of its kind not only in Kazakhstan, but also throughout the world. It was formed in the epoch of the Paleogene and reminds Colorado Grand Canyon in North America, though inferior to it in size. The height of the steep canyon slopes is 150-300 meters. The extreme ruggedness of relief impresses: numerous gullies and ravines form a dense, disordered network. Wind and water has created the beautiful "Valley of Castles", where you all the time are surrounded by bizarre towers, built of sedimentary rocks. Valley length is more than 2 km, the width - 20-80 meters. Over millions of years the nature has been creating a unique architecture, carefully and deliberately erecting magnificent castles. You can spend hours wandering among the strange towers and poles, marveling at the lush imagination of nature.

Charyn Canyon - Bartogai Reservoir - Almaty

Breakfast at 09:00, packing stuff and starting the last part of the cycling route. You will ride about 30 km by car till the turn to Bartogai reservoir. There the cycling part begins - about 20 km by asphalt road without any traffic (usually only 1-2 cars drive on this road, sometimes nobody is met here). This road is going to Bartogai reservoir, at the shores of which a stop for inner and rest will be made. This is followed by a car, the final part of the trip - returning to Almaty. On the way You will make a stop in Baiseit village to have lunch in a local cafe. Arrival to Almaty at approx. 20:00.

Amazing in its beauty Bartogai Reservoir is located in the gorge of the same name on the Chilik River, which is blocked by the rock-bulk dam, with height of 60 meters, length of 330 meters and with a set of culverts. The reservoir was created to store water in winter, and to feed the fields in the summer along the channel of 160 km length. Release of water through the dam at the Chilik River takes place from June to September for irrigation. In this time the spillway capacity reaches 100 cubic meters per second, due to which the height of the fountain reaches more than one hundred meters. Streams of water under great pressure get out into the open, and breaking into small particles form a cloud of sprays glittering in the sun.

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