Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Stay away from Kolsay in May and June
when ticks are present, raising a risk of tick-
borne encephalitis.
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¨Sleeping¨&¨Eating
Saty¨Homestays¨
HOmESTAY $
(per person incl 3 meals 3500-4000T)
S
The
Ecotourism Information Resource Centre
(p68) in Almaty can help you book into six
homestays in Saty. The families can provide
cars or horses to the lower lake, and horses
from there to the middle lake, at around
1000T for a car and 3000T to 5000T per day
for a horse.
Jibek¨Joly¨Cottages¨
LODgE $
(Nizhny Kolsay Lake; r per person with shared
bathroom 2250-3250T Sun-Thu, 4500-6500T
Fri & Sat, with private bathroom 4250T Sun-Thu,
8500T Fri & Sat;
p
)
S
Jibek Joly has three
quite comfy wooden cottages, with two-
and four-person bedrooms, on a hillside
above Nizhny Kolsay lake. You will receive
Kolsay Lakes
ОЗЁРА КОЛЬСАЙ
These three pretty lakes lie amid the steep,
forested foothills of the Küngey Alatau,
110km southeast of Almaty as the crow
flies, but almost 300km by road, via Chilik
(Shelek) and Zhalanash. They are strung
along the Kolsay River, about 1800m to
2800m high, southwest of the village of
Saty.
From Saty it's about 12km by road to the
1km-long Nizhny (Lower) Kolsay lake at
1800m. On the way you pay a national park
admission fee of 700T per person per day.
The Sredny (Middle) Kolsay lake at 2250m is
the biggest and most beautiful, 5km up from
the lower lake via a hike of about three hours.
From the middle lake to the smaller Verkhny
(Upper) Kolsay lake at 2800m, where the for-
ests give way to alpine grasslands, is about
4km and three hours' walking.
Southeast Kazakhstan
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70 km
0
40 miles
Ust-Kamenogorsk (780km);
Ushtobe
Semey (825km)
Kapal
Taldykorgan
C H I N A
Waterfall
Balpyk Bi
Bakanas
Karabulak
ZHUNGAR
Tekeli
ALATAU
Rudnichny
MOUNTAINS
Karaagash
Kogaly
Saryozek
Khorgos
R20
Basshi
Zharkent
Balkhash (540km);
Karaganda (905km)
A3
Karashoky
Yining (95km);
Ürümqi (630km)
Shengeldy
M36
Altyn-Emel
National Park
Kapshagay
Kurti
Lake Kapshagay
Taraz
(490km)
A5
Tamgaly Petroglyphs (100km);
Bayseit
A2
Chilik
Shonzhy
Bishkek (180km);
Taraz (475km)
Turgen
Valley of Castles
Yesik
Almaty
Bartogay
Talgar
Charyn
A2
Reservoir
Kaskelen
Almatinsky Nature Reserve
Canyon
Medeu
Ile-Alatau
Ozero Bolshoe
Chimbulak
National Park
Almatinskoe
Zhalanash
A6
Ile-Alatau NP
Saty
Kegen
Talgar
Saryzhaz
Kolsay Lakes
(4979m)
Karkara
R15
A l a - T o o
San-Tash
Narynkol
Balbay
Semyonovka
Bosteri
Mramornaya
A363
Tüp
Chong-Sary-Oy
Grigorievka
Stena (6400m)
Cholpon-
Bayankol
Ata
Karakol
Balykchy
Lake
Bayankol
Issyk-Köl
(5791m)
A364
Khan Tengri
A363
K Y R G Y Z S T A N
(7010m)
