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Tour around Charyn Canyon
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Charyn Canyon
Seasons: June - November
Length: 10 hours
Equipment: sports shoes and sports clothes.
Depart Almaty at 08.00. Drive to the Charyn Canyon a fantastic Grand canyon-style rock formation.
With sculptures and multi-colored gorges, the 80 km canyon has excellent canoeing, rafting mostly of the highest level of difficulty,
which should only be attempted with professional equipment and accompany by guides.
It offers also very good hiking. The trekking and hiking in and around Dolina Zamkov is easy;
other routes are easier done with professional guidance
The Charyn River is running through the deep canyon with bizarre rock monuments reminding in shape of castles and
towers on top of steep rocky walls. The Torajgir Mountain has elevations of more than 2000 m and are one of several
southeast Kazakh mountain ranges north of the Tian Shan.
The walls of the Charyn Canyon in Dolina Zamkov area splendid rock levels of different ages and different origin. Dark rocks at the bottom of Charyn Canyon and in the lower part of Olina Zamkov are volcanic lava rocks. These are the oldest rocks in this area. On top of these rocks are layers of much younger rocks. These red cliffs (i.e. the walls of Dolina Zamkov), consist of solid gravel which was deposited by flows of debris. The plains around Charyn Canyon are covered with grey gravel which was deposited by rivers, and dust which
was deposited by wind.
The rocks of Torajgir Mountains are of about the same age as the old volcanic lava rocks and also of volcanic origin. They consist of solid lava and depositions of material thrown out by volcanic eruptions. These rocks were later lifted up along a fault plane (as geologists call it). In western Dolina Zamkov are volcanic rocks of different colors which have about the same age as the other rocks of volcanic origin. They consist (like the rocks of Torajgir Mountains) of ashes and stones thrown out by volcanoes.
Later these rocks were raised so that they are at the surface today.
Return to Almaty about 18.00 hours.
We hope you like the program and assure you that we are absolutely open to any suggestions to increase the range of our services for the entire satisfaction of our clients and are happy to meet your special requirements.
You can alter the duration of your tour and places of visits by adding one of the extensions. Our tour operator will work closely with you or your travel agent to carefully prepare an itinerary based on your stated interests.
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