Baisary is a chalk canyon about 800 metres long, its white walls dotted with flint deposits. Fossils of ancient sea urchins turn up in the rock.
Baisary is a white chalk canyon about eight hundred metres long, hidden among hills 290 kilometres from Aktau. Flint deposits stud its walls, and fossilised sea urchins turn up in the rock — a sea washed over this place millions of years ago.
Halfway along, the canyon splits in two: one branch leads deeper in, where the walls narrow and the forms grow stranger — thin ridges, "sails" and towers.
The scale is deceptive: from outside the canyon looks small, but inside the walls rise tens of metres. Come in the first half of the day, before the sun bleaches the rock and washes out the detail.
Honest numbers before you take the wheel. We are not selling an adventure — we are explaining what you would be dealing with.
Driving here yourself requires four-wheel drive and a water supply: there are no fuel stations or services on the route.
Shots from our trips — click to enlarge
Leave the logistics to people who drive here all year round: prepared vehicles, satellite communication and a guide who knows where the ground holds and where it does not.
Karagiye → Onere (spring) → Karynzharyk and 24 more stops