A video recording of a multi-day road trip through Eastern Kazakhstan from Almaty to Katon-Karagay. The video shows the ancient Bayanzhurek sanctuary, Lake Alakol with its healing waters, mountain roads through the villages of Arasan and Suiksai, as well as overnight stays in tents and encounters with locals.
- Duration
- 47 min 14 s
- Route distance
- 5848.9 km
- Start
- Bayan Zhurek Mountains
- End
- Zhongar Alatau National Park. Kardon Zhalanash
- Stops
- 16
- Channel author
- Qanbaq
Timestamps and places
- — Introduction
- — Bayan Zhurek Mountains
- — Overnight stay on the Lepsy River
- — Gas equipment failure
- — We couldn't get into the National Park
- — The road to Lake Alakol
- — Koktuma Wild Beach
- — We fry meat on the shore
- — Zhasylkol, Urzhar, Makanchi
- — Kurchumskaya crossing
- — We are going along Zaisan
- — Marble Pass
- — Urunkhaika, Lake Markakol
- — Old Austrian Road
- — Old Austrian Road
- — The drone hung on the branches
- — I climbed a spruce tree to save the drone.
- — A dangerous ford of a mountain river
- — Crossing the Karakoba
- — Frying sausages
- — Burkhat Pass
- — The road to Rakhmanovskie springs
- — Morning on the banks of the Belaya Berel River
- — We pick mushrooms and strawberries
- — Bridge over the Belaya Berel
- — Lake Yazevoye (Karakol)
- — View of Mount Belukha
- — Tent review
- — Let's prepare dessert. Recipe
- — Yazevy Waterfall
- — Katon Karagay
- — Bukhtarma
- — Sandy beach on the Bukhtarma Reservoir
- — The road to Verkhnie Lepsy
- — Zhongar Alatau National Park. Kardon Zhalanash
Route on the map
From Almaty to Katon-Karagay by car. EASTERN KAZAKHSTAN! A Grand Independent Road Trip