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.
Arrive in Taraz by the morning train. After meeting the guide at the train station you will be taken to the city, where you will visit the History Museum, the Karakhan and Dautbek Mausoleums, the Tekturmas historical complex. At the end of the excursions, you will depart to Shymkent for accommodation in the hotel and overnight.
Taraz is one of the oldest cities in Kazakhstan, the remains of which are hidden under the buildings of a modern city. Taraz is an ancient and the largest trade and administrative center on the Silk Road route of the VII-VIII centuries, counting more than 2000 years. There are more than 70 monuments of archeology, history, architecture, and monumental art in the city and its surroundings. Thus, for example, Aisha-Bibi Mausoleum, the unique monument of medieval architecture of XІ-XІ centuries, is the only monument not only in the territory of Kazakhstan but also in the whole of Central Asia, which is entirely faced with carved terracotta and entered by UNESCO into the list of especially valuable historical and architectural monuments of mankind.
After breakfast in the hotel, you will depart for a sightseeing tour to the city of Otrar, where you will see the mausoleum of Arystan Bab, who was the teacher and spiritual mentor of Khoja Ahmed Yassawi, as well as archeological excavations of the ancient settlement of Otrar. Then you will be taken to Turkistan city. There you can see the Azret Sultan historical and architectural complex and the mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yassawi, the famous Sufi sheikh and philosopher. After the tour, you will return to Shymkent for an overnight in the hotel.
Otrar is the city where Al Farabi, a medieval philosopher and scientist, was born and lived. This center of trade and handicraft was the main point of caravan routes between Eastern Europe and China. At the end of the XIII century, Mongolian troops flattened it to the ground.
Turkistan was founded around 500 AD at the intersection of caravan routes from Samarkand, Bukhara, and Khiva to Northern Kazakhstan. The city was known as the spiritual and political center of Turkic-speaking people and in the XVI-XVIII centuries was the capital of the Kazakh Khanate. The city of Turkistan gained wide world fame due to the preaching activity of Khoja Ahmed Yassawi, the famous Sufi sheikh and philosopher.
After breakfast and check-out from the hotel you will depart to Sairam settlement (20 km), where you will visit Local History Museum, Mar-Tobe, Ibrahim-Ata Mausoleum, Karashash-Ana Mausoleum and medieval minaret. Then you will be transferred to the foot of Kazygurt mountains to Kamekalgan natural sacred stones. There you will see sanctifying rocks "Adam and Eve", stone statues of animals, "Noah's Ark", the magic stone "Dastarkhan". After sightseeing, you will be transferred to Shymkent station, where you will take an evening train to Almaty or another city in Kazakhstan.
Kazygurt is a mountain massif having an altitude of 1776 meters above sea level, located in the northern spurs of Talas Alatau. Externally mountain consists of two hills, interlocked between them with a saddleback. Despite its small height compared to the other mountains, there is a legend, that in former times Kazygurt was higher all the mountains of the universe. During the flood, when the world had disappeared under the water, the top of Kazygurt was left unflooded. And it was the place where Noah's Ark docked. Today the symbolic Noah's Ark, created by contemporary artists in wood and metal, is constructed at the top of the mountain.
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