Our schedules are too busy today, so short weekends spent outside the city are priceless. WE’d like to present you the places to visit in Karaganda vicinity.
"Tas Bulak" mountain hotel
Distance: 200 kilometers from Karaganda
"Tas Bulak" is located in the unique Karkaraly national park. Holidaymakers are offered a lot of entertainment, both in summer and in winter, i.e. you can buy tickets to various excursions in the hotel reception. The pine-birch forest and live water lakes will amaze you. Moreover, the hotel has a dispensary, which offers a wide range of wellness procedures. Wild animals cage is not far from the hotel.
Contacts: 8 7212 411 195, 8 7212 910 408, 8 7212 400 122, 8 7212 361 193, 8 7212 361 194, 8 708 436 11 93, 8 708 436 11 94, 8 700 400 64 66
Baiterek Resort Holiday Village
Distance: 3 kilometers from Karaganda
There are log cottages with a therma, pool, rest room and bedrooms inside. Guests are welcomed to have a fun on rinks, slides, scooters or ride a horse and even fly by helicopter.
Contacts: 8 778 121 11 11
Kyzylaray mountain forest
Distance: 290 kilometers from Karaganda
Here’s the highest point of Sary-Arka steppe - Axoran peak 1565 meters high. It is this place that is considered to be the only habitat of argali in Kazakhstan. This region inherited a lot: Begazy monumental tombs of and rock carvings related to the Bronze Age, the stone sculptures of the Turkic period and the Kazakh-Dzungar wars mausoleums. The locals have preserved the skills of making felt and national dairy: koumiss, shubat, kurt and others. Tourists can have a night stay in Shabanbai bi guest houses.
For more information on this tourist route, please call:
8 7212 996 165, Maria Brizickaya, Nomadic Travel Kazakhstan manager
Bereznyaki village – the cleanest area of Karaganda region
Distance: 50 kilometers
This area was named so due to birch groves abundantly growing here. In addition to clear air, you can enjoy a treatment in the sanatorium of the same name located nearby. Russian sauna with wood, pool, massage with aromatic oils, Charcot's douche and hydromassage baths – this service list is st the beginning!
Contacts: 8 7212 996 111
Shakhter Recreation Center
Distance: 224 kilometers
In the “Shakhter” you can fish with friends on Lake Pashennoe shore, climb the Pioneers Peak and make an exciting excursion to the unique protected places such as Chertovo Lake or Pool Lake. Also, you can play football, volleyball, tennis, use the pool, visit the disco. In winter you can go on a ski slope by a cable car.
Contacts: 8 7212 49 22 10, 8 700 925 99 99