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Alternative rounds / Mangystau oblast / Mangystau Caravan Paths Route

No eras fallen into oblivion have ever left the land. They solidify in urban appearance, literature and art works and human memory. They are around and inside us.
Feel the breath of long-gone time traveling in Mangystau. The peninsula expanse keeps many architectural and archeological monuments.
Firma Tourist LLP offers a 4-day program March to May and September to November.

Route 1
Day 1
10.00. - Airport-hotel transfer.
11.30 - Hotel accommodation. The Koktem Hotel is 10 minutes walk from the Caspian shore with access roads. Nearby are a bowling, billiard, Elis entertainment center, roller rink and several cafés with various cuisines. Single room accommodation equipped with a bath-room, split system, cable TV, telephone and a mini bar. For additional payment, you can have a conference hall, internet and laundry services.
13.00. – Lunch in the Koktem Hotel restaurant. A cozy setting with European and ethnic cuisine.
14.30. - A city overview tour.
16.30. – Visit a Modern Art Gallery, see folk artists’ works and buy souvenirs.
19.00. - Koktem hotel restaurant lunch.
21.00. - Free time.
Day 2
9.00. - Breakfast in the Koktem Hotel restaurant.
10.00. – Caravan Paths bus tour, Duration:10 hours. The excursion will visit the Karagye Depression, 116 m above level-sea, view site stop, and Silk Road sights seeing.
13.00. – Lunch in a café of Shetpe town, ethnic cuisine.
14.00. – The second part crosses the picturesque Karatau Mountain Canyon. The route will end by visiting an ancient town – one of the largest Silk Road settlements in 10th -13th centuries. Those who want can walk to the Sherkala piedmont.
17.00. – Return to city.
19.30. – Dinner in the Koktem Hotel restaurant.
21.00. - Free time.
Day 3
9.00. - Koktem hotel restaurant breakfast.
10.00. – Memorial Mangystau bus excursion on variety of memorials and their historical and architectural value with visiting two necropolises – Koshkar Ata and Kalipan. The length is 72 km (a Hungarian Ikarus bus).
The route will be on an asphalt highway. Duration is 3 hours.
13.00. - Koktem hotel restaurant lunch.
14.00. – Visit the Ak Bastau stud farm, get familiar with stud-farm aul traditions and nomadic livestock-farm history.
18.00. – Koktem Hotel Dinner.
19.00. - Free time. Optional billiard and bowling center for additional payment (One hour per person is USD 15 to 25).
Day 4
9.00. - Koktem hotel restaurant breakfast.
10.00. – A city near Tub Karagan bus tour, duration is 8 hours. The excursion contain information on military forts in the Tub Karagan Gulf constructed as ordered by Peter the Great, on the construction of the New Petrov Fort and connection with T.G. Shevchenko, Ukrainian poet and artist. Visit the ethnographic and regional museums.
14.00. – Lunch in the Shagala Hotel restaurant in Bautino town.
15.00. - See the town and walk in the New Petrov Fort.
16.30. - Return to city.
19.00. – Koktem Hotel Dinner.
20.00. - Free time.
Day 5
9.00. - Koktem hotel restaurant breakfast.
11.00. – Hotel-airport transfer (Hungarian Ikarus bus).

Route 2
No eras fallen into oblivion have ever left the land. They solidify in urban appearance, literature and art works and human memory. They are around and inside us. Feel the breath of long-gone time traveling in Mangystau. The peninsula expanse keeps many architectural and archeological monuments.
Firma Tourist LLP offers a 4-day program March to May and September to November.
Day 1. Airport-hotel transfer. Hotel accommodation. The Koktem Hotel is 10 minutes walk from the Caspian shore with access roads. Nearby are a bowling, billiard, Elis entertainment center, roller rink and several cafés with various cuisines. Single room accommodation equipped with a bath-room, split system, cable TV, telephone and a mini bar. For additional payment, you can have a conference hall, internet and laundry services.
Koktem hotel restaurant lunch. A cozy setting with European and ethnic cuisine. A city overview tour. Visit a Modern Art Gallery, see folk artists’ works and buy souvenirs. Koktem hotel restaurant dinner.
Days 2, 3 and 4: the route will require a special outfit.. Accommodation: 2 nights in tents.
Day 5Travel from Aktau to the Sherkala Mountain. The Sherkala is unique looking like a giant yurt from one of the perspectives (H-300 m). A walking excursion around the mountain (3 km) and ascent to the peak (30m using Alpinist equipment, optional). A field lunch (13.00 – 14.00). Travel from Sherkala to a small mountain system Akmyshtau. Akmyshtau is a natural castles valley. See the ruined Middle Aged Town of Kyzylkala (10th -13th centuries) and nomads’ rock drawings. The route passes a beautiful cross-country along the chalk ridges of the Kairakty and Ktai Airakty Mountains. Dinner. Overnight stop in tents.
Day 6 Breakfast. Ascent by a mountain path to the Tomalak Peak (Н - 200 m) opening a fantastic panorama on the neighborhood (the total route length is 4 km). Travel from Akmyshtau to Kokala, a location of washouts of speckled Jurassic shale and a gorge with a spring. Walk down the gorge (4 km tracking). Dinner. Overnight stop in tents.
Day 7. Breakfast. Travel from Kokala to Akkonyr locality. Akkonyr is a location where you can see a bizarre outcrop – globular concretions. You can also see here a small abandoned underground mosque. Travel from Akkonyr to the Kochak Gulf. A field lunch. Travel from Kochak to the Kumakape Gorge (see Bronze Age megalith structures) to Tauchik to Aktau.
Day 8. Koktem hotel restaurant breakfast. Memorial Mangystau bus excursion on variety of memorials and their historical and architectural value with visiting two necropolises – Koshkar Ata and Kalipan.. The length is 72 km .Duration is 3 hours. Hotel restaurant lunch.
Visit the Ak Bastau stud farm, get familiar with stud-farm aul traditions and nomadic livestock-farm history. Koktem Hotel dinner.
Day 9. Koktem hotel restaurant breakfast. A city by Tub Karagan bus tour. Duration: 8 hours, The length 130 km
The excursion contain information on military forts in the Tub Karagan Gulf constructed as ordered by Peter the Great, on the construction of the New Petrov Fort and connection with T.G. Shevchenko, Ukrainian poet and artist. Visit the ethnographic and regional museums.
Lunch in the Shagala Hotel restaurant in Bautino town. See the town and walk in the New Petrov Fort. Return to city. Dinner in the Koktem Hotel. Free time.
Day 10. Koktem hotel restaurant breakfast. Hotel-restaurant transfer.

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