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Kokala valley on Mangyshlak.

Tours & Travels Manyshlak.

“Two things control men`s nature, instinct and experience”

Blaise Pascal.

West Kazakhstan Travels in Kazakhstan.

The Kokala valley is located between two ridges: in the northwestern part of the Western Karatau ridge and in the central eastern part of the Northern Aktau ridge, 5.3 kilometers to the east and slightly north of the Shaiyr village, 6.5 kilometers southwest of the mountain Zhalgan with a height of 331.2 meters above sea level, 9.5 kilometers to the west and slightly south of Mount Sherkala in the Mangistau district of the Mangistau region.
The Kokala valley is famous for its bizarre erosion of variegated and colored clays and a mountain gorge with spring water, which is located in the immediate vicinity of the valley. The Karatau mountain fold, rising from the bowels of the Earth, lifted layers along the edge of the fault, which were forever buried under the oceanic sediments.
This is how the colored clays of the Jurassic period were born. Kokala is a natural multicolor among the monolithic rocky highlands of Mangistau, a small temporary tunnel in the era of dinosaurs. Here you will not find fossilized remains or traces of long-extinct reptiles, but you can touch the real tree sediments and coals of burnt lek, on which dinosaurs roamed.
We will not see fossilized bones or traces of long-extinct reptiles here, but we can touch real charcoal, 170-200 million years old, of a burnt forest where dinosaurs roamed. Nature has miraculously eroded the layers of clay, creating a flaky mountain of bumps, columns, mushrooms, pyramids and miniature canyons with intricately cut sides.
Kokala is a natural variegated color among the monotonous rocky mountains of Mangystau.
Geographic coordinates of the Kokala valley: N44 ° 14'43.30 "E51 ° 53'13.20"

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Authority
Andrey Astafyev, Aktau town. Alexander Petrov.

Photos by
Alexander Petrov.