Discover the Lunar landscapes of Mangystau

Breakfast at the hotel and meeting with your guide. 08:00 departure from Aktau to Capamsay (120 km driving). Imagine Chalky cliffs, and at the bottom of the coulee contains a green grove with giant secular trees. Once there was a deep river here, but now it already dried. In this area, there is a huge silicon pebbles valley. We will visit Shokpak ata. The underground mosque Shakpak Ata is carved in a mountain chalky rock. It is known that Sufis, which lived in this cave were practiced healing magic. They helped people there, to get better from sickness. For that, they have relinquished the sick person in a cave for the night. It was thought that during the night the gracious spirit gets real on the sick person and the illness will go away. Till now people are coming with the hope to heal from illness. Torysh: The uncovering nodule lies on both sides from mounting above hundreds of kilometers, which is giving the singularity to the local landscape. Where the bed was broken in a vertical position – which is formed long ridges from stones of various sizes. And where the bed was broken in a horizontal position – there is nodule is occurring by field, that is formed the fanciful conglomerations of balls, eggs, mushrooms, UFO, cylinders, nest-dolls and animals. Such field Lunch. Kokala. This is a small temporal tunnel from the age of the dinosaurs. We cannot see the fossil bones or tracks of long-gone reptiles, but we can touch the charcoal from the burnt forest aging 170-00 million years ago. Nature has surprisingly degraded the seams of clay, trough nature creates the fissile mountain from knolls, columns, mushrooms, pyramids, and mini canyon with fanciful jagged beads. The Kokala is the natural mottled area among the monotone rocky hill of Mangystau. Sherkala. This is a legendary mountain, where was built the fortress in the Middle Ages, which secured the paths of the Great Silk Way. The Sherkala is situated behind central and west systems of the mountain range Karatau, and in the north part of mountain Akmyshtau. “Sherkala” – by the translation from the Turkmen language means “lion fortress” (“sher” – lion, “kala” – fortress). Mountains of Airakty look like a magic castle with spires, towers, colonnades and fort walls. The main sights of the valley are magic grots, fanciful caves, palaces with colonnades, temples with cupolas, gothic spires and fanciful canopies. On one of the mountains there has a wild winding road, which is punched by half-wild horses; from this mountain is overlooking a view on a sightseeing platform where you can see faraway mounts of Aktau and all castles of Airakty. Heading to Kegez ethnic village. Installation of the camp (Kegez), dinner, and overnight.