City below the peaks · Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan’s largest city, with snow mountains at the end of every avenue.
Almaty was Kazakhstan’s capital until 1997 and is still its largest and liveliest city. Leafy, café-filled and set directly below the Trans-Ili Alatau, it is the base for the mountains, lakes and canyons of the south-east.
Within an hour you can be at the Medeu skating rink, riding the gondola to Shymbulak or looking down on the turquoise water of Big Almaty Lake.
Don’t miss
A wooden cathedral built without nails, in a central park.
Dried fruit, nuts, horse-meat sausage and Almaty apples.
A hilltop park reached by cable car, with city views.
A high-altitude skating rink and a ski resort with a gondola.
A turquoise reservoir at about 2,500 m.
Tours
Ashgabat → Darvaza gas crater → Kunya-Urgench → Khiva → Bukhara → Samarkand → Seven Lakes (Haft Kul) → Tashkent → Margilan → Osh → Bishkek → Song-Kul → Issyk-Kul → Almaty
Almaty → Charyn Canyon → Kolsai Lakes → Kaindy Lake
Almaty → Charyn Canyon → Turkistan → Tashkent → Samarkand → Bukhara → Khiva
Almaty → Charyn Canyon → Kolsai Lakes → Karakol → Issyk-Kul → Song-Kul → Bishkek
Nearby
Darvaza Trip · Koshona street 75/1, Khiva, Uzbekistan · WhatsApp +998 91 920 94 20 · tours.uzbekistan@gmail.com · darvazatrip.com/destinations/kazakhstan/almaty/
