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Private Tour: 6 Charyn Canyon Sights

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Charyn Canyon National Park

Explore 6 breathtaking Charyn Canyon sights on a private tour. Discover Castle Valley, Moon Canyon, Stone Shelf, Napoleon, and Austrian View in one day.

Duration: 12 hours

Cancellation: 1 day learn more

Highlights

Charyn Canyon National Park - A one-day trip to Charyn River canyons, including trekking, visiting six unique, exciting locations.
ITINERARY
07:30. Departure from Almaty city to Charyn canyons.
10:30. Arrival at the Valley of Castles canyon (Location # 1). Walking inside the canyon (2.5 km long).
11:30. Return to the canyon car park.
Visit to the panorama overlooking “Castles Valley” from above (Location # 2).
13:00. Departure to the Moon Canyon (Location # 3). Short walk, lunch snack, photo session.
14:30. Departure to the Stone Shelf (Location # 4).
15:15. Entering the volcanic zone of the national park we make a 20-minute stop at a spectacular site overlooking the rocky part of the canyon.
16:00. Transfer to “Napoleon”, the panoramic site (Location # 5).
16:30. Visit the final point of the trip - “the Austrian view” panoramic platform (Location # 6).
17:00. Departure to Almaty.
19:30. Arrival in Almaty.

What's Included

Bottled water
Round-trip national park taxi fare inside the canyon
In-vehicle air conditioning
Entrance tickets of Charyn National Park
Parking fees

What's Not Included

Lunch

Additional Information

Our tour programme is really unique, during one day guests visit 6 interesting, different locations in the canyons of Charyn River.

In addition to walking inside the popular Castle Valley Canyon (Location # 1), we offer guests a visit to the observation deck, the view from the top of Castle Valley Canyon is a breathtaking view of the entire canyon (Location # 2).
Next we visit Moon Canyon with a truly lunar, ethereal scale, the ground turns from a burgundy colour to a yellow hue (Location # 3).
The next stop on the route is “Stone Shelf”, a place with volcanic activity a million years ago (Location # 4).
The “Napoleon” location includes an unforgettable view of the main canyon of the Charyn River and a huge amount of free space (Location # 5).
The last point of the route is the “Austrian View” - the turns of the Charyn River take shape in the form of a giant snake, bordered by the green edge of an ancient tree - turanga (Location # 6).

Location

Charyn Canyon National Park

Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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Hunza44

Mar 7, 2024

An enjoyable custom Golden Ring of Zhetysu - Four of us (1 family) from Australia enjoyed a custom private tour with GreenX in July 2023. Taking the Golden Ring of Zhetysu as a backbone, we added some white water rafting in the Chilik River, and a drop off to Karakol in Kyrgyzstan at the end of the trip. We originally booked to do this tour in 2020, but COVID struck and everything got shut down. Natalya handled this very well, and I remained in contact until 2022 when I re-booked for 2023. Azamat and GreenX organised everything with clear email interactions. We were pleased to meet Ramil, our driver and guide, at our hotel in Almaty on the first day of our trip at the appointed time, with his four-wheel drive that was in good condition. Ramil was polite, professional, spoke excellent English, and knew his subject matter very well. He did all the walking and even the white-water rafting with us, and provided plenty of information about each site that we visited. He was a safe driver and just the right guide for us. The border crossing into Kyrgyzstan at Kegen worked just fine – guards on both sides were friendly. The dinners were delicious, particularly in Zharkent, and the hotels were reasonable and friendly. All up we thoroughly enjoyed our time on this tour, and definitely recommend both GreenX and Ramil.