Tourist attractions in Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan places of interest

Kazakhstan’s main landmark is steppe. Several waves of mass migration crossed the Kazakhstan horizonless steppes from the East to the West. This land keeps many artifacts of the mankind history: barrows, buried settlements, stone statues. Kazakhstan land is rich with picturesque natural sites. Tours to the Charyn Canyon with “The Valley of Castles” and pre-historic aspen grove are very popular. It is also interesting to visit Saka mounds, Karabulak gorge, and “Borovoe” nature reserve, see petroglyphs in Tamgali-Tas.

Kazakhstan territory also includes quite a lot of architectural monuments. You must visit Otrar, whose ruins still keep the traces of Genghis-khan invasion, the Mausoleum of Sufi poet and mystic Khoja Ahmed Yassavy – the place where Muslim pilgrims from all over the world come to every year. You cannot but visit the most famous Baikonur cosmodrome, from where Gagarin performed the space flight, first ever in the mankind history. The tourists will have interesting excursions in the cosmodrome territory arranged for them with a visit to the houses where Soviet cosmonauts lived, as well as to do museum, alley, stations and space rockets.

Aisha-Bibi, Kazakhstan

Aisha Bibi Mouseleum is only monument in the whole Central Asia faced completely with fretted terracotta. It is included into the UNESCO list of the most valuable historical architectural monuments of the mankind.

Babdja Khatun, Kazakhstan

Mausoleum is famous for its 16-rib umbrella shaped dome. There is no second architectural monument of this kind in the Central Asia. The figured brickwork decorates the walls of the Mausoleum.

Khoja Ahmed Yasawi Mausoleum

The complex of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi consists of a huge, rectangular building with portals and domes. In ground plan it measures 46, 5 x 65, 5 meters. The thickness of the outside walls is 1, 8-2 meters; and the walls of the central chamber are-3 meters thick. The building has an enormous portal and a number of domes. Around its central chamber are more than 35 rooms for various purposes. More...

Otrar

About 150 km North-West of Chimkent lie the ruins of Otrar the town that brought Chengiz Khan to Central Asia when its Governor murdered Great Khan's Merchants in 13th century. More...

Baikonur Cosmodrome

Baikonur Cosmodrome became historical for the whole planet, here the faith of our civilization was decided and the countdown of the new era of living for people started. More...