What to do and see in Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan: The Best Historical & Heritage Tours

The Silk Road tour of Kazakhstan covers several oldest historical cities – Otrar, Turkestan and Shymkent. The tour lasts for 2 days. First of all you will learn everything about the Silk Road heritage of South Kazakhstan . The highlight of the trip is an ancient-fortress city of Sauran. The city peacefully stands in the middle of the steppe. Time had completely ruined the city. As a result people started to reconstruct it. For this reason serious excavation works are taking place there. The Great Silk Road played a major role in the development of economic and cultural relations. It covered population of Asia Minor, Central Asia, the Caucasus and China. It served as a corridor for technological, cultural and religious exchange. In 2003 UNESCO has included Mausoleum of Khodja Ahmed Yasawi to the list of the World cultural Heritage. Do you want to learn more about this mausoleum?

Inclusions: Air-conditioned vehicle, All Fees and Taxes, Accommodation 1 night in Turkestan city

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During this tour you will cross c.1800 km, this is one of the most challenging as well as one of the most adventurous tours! The wondrous region of Mangistau seemingly comes out of sci-fi movies. Vast lands covered in a salt spread as far as an eye can see. Nature used Mangistau as its workshop carving cliffs with wind and rain, painting them with multicoloured chalks. And the jewel of such work is Karyn Zharyk, a depression, the bottom of which is covered in salt-marshes that make the mountains seem to float on a cloud. There is also Tuzbair lake “Salty Walls”. Having a walk on the surface of the lake as if you are a hero of old legends possessing powers mentioned in Bible, and look at the water under you feet separated by a seemingly thin layer of salt. Mangistau is also a land filled with human creations striking in beauty. Underground mosques, historical monuments and remnants of forgotten civilizations are hidden among cliffs and valleys.

Inclusions: Breakfast, Dinner, Lunch, Breakfast, Lunch, Lunch, Dinner, Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Breakfast, Dinner, Air-conditioned vehicle, Drinking water 1,5 L per person per day, Double accommodation in 3 * hotel in Zhanaozen on Day 1 (Temirkazyk hotel or similiar), Accommodation in a tent from Day 2 to Day 5. Besides tents we also provide sleeping bags and mats, Entrance tickets and permission to Ustyrt Nature Reserve, Meeting and transfer from and to the airport

Exclusions: Single accommodation supplement (25 USD), Visa support and registration on the territory of Kazakhstan, if required, All personal and other expenses

In order to understand this wonderful city you have to take a look at it through the prism of time. During this tour you will come back to the past, see the present and look into the future of the capital of modern Kazakhstan.

Inclusions: Bottled water, All Fees and Taxes, Professional guide, Private transportation, Hotel pickup and drop-off

Exclusions: Lunch (available to purchase), Gratuities (optional)

There are only few nuclear powers in the world, of them only 3 countries allow tourism related to military use of nuclear technology. While in DPRK and USA you'll visit only museums, in Kazakhstan it is possible to visit test sites literally, step on the same land, even walk in the crater of explosion. Within last 30 years a lot of work had been done to clean this land, so largely it is safe to visit even according to very tough Kazakhstan standards. Nevertheless, we will take all measures for safety, including dosimetrist service. What is unique here, is.. everything, literally everything!! Besides, I'll tell you many private stories and a lot of my personal collection of stories and historical anecdotes.

Inclusions: Picnick style lunch is included on the first day. We will have it in the bunker, from which underground test were conducted., Private transportation, Radiation service is included. It consists of: sertified dosimetrist service, protective suits, gloves, masks and boots both days., Accomodation in the evening of first day. Workers' dormitory, quite a spartan condition., Permissions for visiting this area., Meals are included.

Exclusions: Alcoholic drinks (available to purchase)

Take opportunity to book this Tour. Just in a few hours you will visit the most interesting and unique places in Almaty such as Green Bazzar,Zenkov Cathedral Church,KoK Tobe and so much more, with our professional guide and comfortable transportation.

Inclusions: Private transportation, Bottled water, All Fees and Taxes, cable car tickets, Entrance Tickets

Exclusions: Lunch

During this tour you'll get all the necessary information about Mausoleum itself, history of religious Sufi orders in Central Asia, history of Turkestan city and history of South Kazakhstan. I would like to give to the guests an in-depth knowledge of our national culture and its spirituality; ancient and recent. I would like to bring, not only the local point-of-view to the discussion, but also give life to facts, legends and stories that have come down through the ages.

Inclusions: Private transportation

Exclusions: Lunch

During the historical Almaty tour you will see the different periods of becoming modern Almaty and feel the spirit of history and modernity which is in the air of it. Also you can visit the mountains which are sometimes called as the second Switzerland. We suppose you will enjoy the tour!

Inclusions: Voznesenski orthodox cathedral, Museum of Kazakh folk instruments, Kyzyl-tan trading house, College-museum named after governor, French consulate, The Stalin era (Stalinki period), Cultural City tour, Avenue of Oligarchs, Shymbulak ski resort

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The modern palaces of the capital are something like a poetic note, flashing among the prosaic infrastructure of Nur-Sultan. You will know the palaces, serving to different aims such as running official state events, forums, congresses as well as holding the University of Arts; all these are gathered in one architectural complex called “The Square of Independence” where you will see the symbol of freedom – the “Kazakh Yeli” (Kazakh Nation) Monument. Moving along the new direction of Nur-Sultan, you will see magnificence of modern constructions under the dome the independent sky, your tour will end with a walk in the President Park.

Inclusions: Private transportation, All Fees and Taxes, Entry tickets

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Nur-Sultan is the symbiosis of past and future in present, it is the city where any person has his own vision and opinion on Nur-Sultan. You may find that the capital is a glass city from future, consisting of unusual buildings tailored by the foreign architects – it is the Pyramid, as well as “Khan Shatyr”, which author is Sir Norman Foster; it is the heritage of the EXPO exhibition, the theme was “Future Energy”. The bird Samruk seems to protect the “Independence Square”; sitting on the top of “Kazakh Yeli” Monument, it guards peace and independence and if you just let yourselves day-dream, you could imagine that the bird is flying over the “Palace of Peace and Reconciliation” and taking a rest at the pond in the President’s Park. The “Independence Square” and “Nurzhol” Boulevard are connected by the bridges over the Yesil (Ishim) River, they prolong the “Millennium Axis” in which conventional centre the main monument of the country “Bayterek” is located.

Inclusions: Private transportation, All Fees and Taxes, Entry tickets to all sightseeings

Exclusions: Personal expenses

Everyone says that Nur-Sultan is a new city. But what about unforgotten traces of the past, the spirit remained in the streets of the city? Pre-revolutionary houses of the local merchants, soviet buildings of the workers operating in frame of Virgin land campaign – the spirit of the past still presents in air of the city. But if you cross a bridge to the left embankment of the city, you feel that the past is left behind the “glass”, and you plunge into expanses of new sense of the modern architecture. And if we say that the right embankment of Nur-Sultan is a history and building of the capital, then the left embankment is an oasis of new ideas and their implementation. During the tour you will learn about the main attractions of the capital, its history and future prospects. You will have a journey to the old centre of the capital, a square with its palaces, a boulevard of future as well as the heritage of EXPO-2017.

Inclusions: Private transportation, All Fees and Taxes, Tickets to the sightseeings, transfer from/to the hotel

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