Singing Dune
In the amazing national Park Altyn Emel the right Bank of the ili river, is the famous Singing dunes. Its length is two kilometers and the width is a mile and a height of one hundred and fifty meters. It is complicated of clean yellow sand, shining Golden. Bancaetruria, sharp ridge. The sand here sounds when it starts to crumble. The sound then increases, then decreases, resembling the roar of aircraft engines. And sometimes it is similar to the sound on the river paddle steamer. In calm and stormy weather and also dunes in the winter is silent. But when it’s dry and the wind picks up –he sounds like himself, also it is easy to get sound – we just have to rise to the top and slide down a steep slope. When this occurs, a loud sound, like dune expresses his dissatisfaction with the invasion of man.The landscape resembles a desert, with a variety of flora and fauna. Usually the tour to the singing sand dune combined with a visit to the beautiful chalk mountains AK-Tau mountains and the fantastic lava formations katu-Tau with a stop in cordon Kosbastau where to be the unique 700 year old tree Willow. Willow feeds the underground spring which forms lake next to the tree.Description a day tour
On arrival in the village of Basshi making a stop by a local office Park Altyn-Emel for permission to visit the territories of the Park. Then, depending on time of arrival (before or after visiting the dunes) you will be offered lunch in the café of the village of Basshi. Just an hour drive from Basshi visited the unique singing dune. An uphill on a dune with the photo shoot should take about two hours. The final part of a day trip is the famous spring of Shokan Ualikhanov of Ecumenical Exactas. Having a dinner. The road back to Almaty.PRICES FOR All INCLUSIVE GUIDED TOUR
1 Person – 329 USD
2 Persons- 179 USD
3 Persons – 119 USD
4 Persons – 89 USD
5 Persons – 79 USD
6 Persons – 69 USD
The tour includes: transportation, excursions with english speaking guide, ecological taxes, drinking water, lunch and dinner.
