Tours: NOMAD ENDURO TOUR (Kazakhstan)
Goodbye asphalt! Hi, offroad! Salam Alaikum steppes, sand dunes and mountains!
Nomad Enduro Tour - a unique motorcycle tour for fans of off-road and Free-riding. Why is unique? Because during 7 days you will riding on the enduro motorbike and feeling the unique landscape: Kazakh steppe endless flat , the sands of Tau-Kum desert, hills, rocky ridges and green alpine meadows Zaili Alatau. And all these are on ancient trails of nomads. Wildlife, a national food, overnight in the yurts (nomad's home) and enduro motorbike - all in the Nomad Enduro Motorcycle Tour in Kazakhstan!
P.S. We do not describe some places and roads on our website because it is exclusive part of our itinerary and commercial secret.
Duration: 9 days
Country: Kazakhstan
Start/finish: Almaty (Kazakhstan)
Total distance: 1500 km
Dates: contact with Sergey by email motoskott@gmail.com
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1. Almaty.
Arrival and meeting at the airport of the city of Almaty. Transfers, hotel accommodation. City tour in Almaty: 28 Panfilov Park, Medeo skating rink. Lunch in a restaurant of traditional Kazakh cuisine. After a lunch it is high time to check the motorbikes.The rest time till supper you can stay at the hotel or go for a walk by yourself. Welcome dinner in the evening. Then you return to the hotel and rest. Tomorrow the enduro freedom!!! 2. Almaty – Aral-Tube settlement
Let’s start! A little bit patience and we are already in the wild Kazakh steppe – Karaoy plateau. There is a plain, endless steppe! Enjoy the riding on enduro motorbike! There is the only border – between the sky and the earth, between the speedometer pointer and your courage. After lunch the main obstacle - the desert Taukum. 100 km of hot sand dunes! For nomad is a trifle. Especially when it is waiting for a cold beer in the evening . In the evening we stay in comfortable homes located in the tourist base. This is a true desert oasis. Swimming in river, beer and tasty food.. cool rest!! 3. Aral-Tube settlement - Kapchagai lake
In the morning we will continue our enduro motorbike tour. Today we will drive on our motorbikes along the Ili River - the largest river in the region and one of the largest rivers in Kazakhstan. One of the river routes of the Silk Road. This day will be hot and long. A variety of roads - sand, salt marsh, gravel, etc. But in the evening we will enjoy in nice resort on Kapchagai lake. 4. Kapchagai lake - Altyn Emel National Park
Start. We will continue our motorcycle adventure. Today we evade the civilization. From this place you can meet only nomads on horses, like many years ago. Then we go through the plateau Kokhan. It is a hilling steppe along the range Kaprek. Till the midday we get to the Altyn-Emel pass and have a dinner – a delicious mutton "shashlik” – it will be cooked for us by local family right near the road. Till the evening we stay at the night in the guest house at the territory of the Altyn-Emel. Here, at the far distance from the civilization, in a cosy house of the Kazakh family you can have a rest and drink cold beer. 5. Altyn Emel National Park - Charyn canyon
In the morning we will continue enduro riding. The Altyn-Emel reserve. It is the huge strictly protected territory. Only with us you can go through this territory and see all mysteries of this unique place. At first we go to listen the The Singing Dune. From that place we get to the Aktau mountains. Aktau – the piece of Mars landscape on the Earth. It is just fantastic! Till the evening we get to the Charyn canyon.The most famous place in Kazakhstan. The sleep here is strong and healthy. Here in the coolness of the river canyon we stay at the night in the yurt camp or bungalow. Fantastic night!6. Charyn canyon - Kulsai Lake
We continue our motorcycle adventure and leaving the landscapes of plain steppes and Red Mars mountains behind, we go to the cool kingdom of green fur-trees and mountains of the Ili Alatau. Our climbing begins from the pass named "Wolf’s Gates” through the Toraigyr mountains. In some places there are no roads, there are only the direction with sharp stones. Here you should hold the wheel firmly and not reduce speed if you do not want to get in the bushes. Cold beer and the fattest bit of meat will be waiting for the one who can hold at the bike and be able to pass the pass without stopping and falling. We hope for it)) Till the evening we get to the Kulsai lake. We spend this night in the warm guesthouse which are surrounded with the Tyan-Shyan mountains. 7. Kulsai Lake – Asy plateau
After breakfast we continue our enduro motorbike tour. Today we go through 3 mountains passes: Alabital, Bakaly,Asy and Sarytau about 2500 m range and force the Asy river. Abrupt winding roads will lift us on Asy plateau which is the paradise on the Earth. The Asy plateau is the largest high- mountain summer pasture in the country. There is a blue sky and green meadows. This is created specially for relax. You can lie on the grass, breathe with mountainous air, drink kumys (horse’s milk) and enjoy the moment until we get to stuffy city jungles, because our tour comes to the end. This night we stay in yurts of hospitable shepherd Kajrat under the bright starry sky of the Kazakh earth.8. Asy plateau - Almaty city
After breakfast we are on our enduro motorcycle again and go through the Turgen gorge where the civilization’s signs can be seen. We have a dinner at one fish restaurant where we taste mountain trout.In the evening we meet all together at the restaurant to celebrate the end of our tour, exchange with photos and we give you the presents and the souvenirs.
So, these are only the main features of our tour. You must have in mind that all these places are united with the unique route including asphalt, sand, gravel, clay, grass, bushes, stony cliffs, mountainous serpentines, rivers and forests, which cannot be described in the tour programs. It is also impossible to describe the drive and all those pleasant feelings which you feel yourself during the trip. To feel it, you must arrive in Almaty and come to us. Trust us. Nobody except us can escort you among the secret paths of the great nomads.
9. Departure Almaty
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Park of Heroes 28-Panfilovtsev, located in the heart of the city. The park is the memorial of glory, and eternal memory lane with fire. Memorial to the great courage and honor established in memory of those who defended our Motherland, its freedom, independence and honor of the WWII years, 8 May, 1975 on the eve of 30 anniversary of the victory of Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War. It consists of three songs that complement each other. The first part - high relief «Oath» (left side) - is dedicated to the young fighters for Soviet power in Kazakhstan. The central part of the triptych - «Podvig» - captured images of the heroes-Panfilovtsev, Russians, Kazakhs, Ukrainians, symbolizing the international nature of the heroic feat of Soviet people in November 1941 near Moscow the right track «Trubyaschie glory», which gives the entire memorial optimistic sound, the images represent hymn of triumphant life. Along the alleys of memory installed obelisks with the names of 28 fighters 1075 Regiment 316 Rifle Division, accepted the unequal battle with German tanks during the winter of 1941, during the battle for Moscow.
Across the Ili river in the north-east from Almaty there is a strange mountain. People call it in different ways: the Singing Barhan, the Singing Mountain. It is made of light tones sand and against the background of the dark ridges of the Dzungarian Alatau — the Big and Small Kalkans — represents an extraordinary sight thanks to the color contrast. The sand mountain is 1,5 km long and 120 m high. The barhan is located in a peculiar passage between the Kalkans ridges. It has been formed as a result of wind activity bringing sand from the Ili banks and laying it in this place. In dry weather the sand runs down the barhan’s slope, and a sound appears. Gradually it increases and sounds like a streamer hooter. A similar natural phenomenon is known in other places of the globe as well: In the Arabian Desert, on the Hawaiian Islands, in America and China. For a long time the nature of sand sounding has been a mystery. In 1962 V. Arabadzhi, a physicist from Leningrad, made a series of observations of the Singing Barhan: he recorded the sand sound, measured the temperature, strength and direction of wind, determined the sand fractions. The reason of the sand sound turned out to be its movement. When walking on the sand, the sounds remind of snow crunching, quick and strong movement causes the sound like a scream. The more is a moving mass the more expressive is the sound – from week squeak to crash. The sound appears due to other conditions as well. The biggest volume falls at the middle of the day and at the temperature of about +24°. The sounds are produced only by a dry sand mass. Having climbed one of its three peaks, one can admire the Ili river and Zailiisky Alatau ridge panorama. If the mountain keeps silence impatient visitors make it sing. For this one must quickly run down the south slope where the sand is not compressed so much. The sand jets will run from under the legs, and strong buzzing will appear form the barhan’s depth. Sometimes besides sounding the barhan starts shaking. And it gives the impression of an earthquake.
