In the south of Kazakhstan, in the Altyn-Emel National Park, the Aigaikum dune lurks. Are you hiding? Because this dune is called a small one. And indeed... just think, 3 kilometers long and 50-storey building high!
But what is small for a huge nature can be simply immense for a tiny person.
Climbing a dune with a slope of 60 degrees in places, with crumbling and dragging down sand, with 30 Degrees Celsius of heat, and closer to the top with a hurricane wind, turned out to be the most difficult ... the most difficult of all!
But we got a lot of emotions. At 10 on a 5-point scale!
At the moment when you, with dry lips and no air in your lungs, with sand in your mouth, eyes and underpants, crawl on four bones to the very crest and sit on a dune riding like a gigantic mythical horse (one leg is burned by the sun, and the other is cooled by cool sand), you feel that you have conquered The whole (no, not like that) THE WHOLE WORLD!
And there is no person on earth happier than you at this moment.
Impressive, extraordinary views. I highly recommend visiting it.
Minus the difficulty of purchasing tickets (the office of the reserve administration should be searched in the village). The inspector at the entrance turned out to be extremely honest, despite the widespread bribery in the KZ. I had to go to the village a second time, we lost a lot of time on this.
And also, for a very bad road to the dune
A place exclusively for interesting photos of "I'm in the desert".
The burkhan is small, the surrounding greenery is visible from any point, so it is impossible to get into the sandy spirit until the end.
But if you wander around, choose an angle and connect your imagination... The photos will be very atmospheric!