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Alkakol Kum Sands.

Trips to the nature of Southern Kazakhstan.

Sweetness shudders through the land
as if, freed from the heat,
nature’d scooped spring waters in her hand
and splashed her burning feet”

Fyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev. “Summer evening”.

A tourist trip from Shymkent to the Aalkol Kum desert.

Alkakol Kum is a sand massif in the Saryagash region of the South Kazakhstan region of Kazakhstan, on the right bank of the Syr Darya. Located approximately 90 kilometers northwest of Tashkent. Stretched from south to north along the Syr Darya.
Length 65 kilometers, width 8 - 18 kilometers. The sandy massif Alakol Kum is composed of Quaternary rocks. The relief is hilly-ridged. On gray-earth soils, zhuzgun, wormwood, wheatgrass and other plants grow.

Authority: 
"Kazakhstan. National encyclopedia" (1998 - 2007).

Photos
Alexander Petrov.