Kazakhstan itineraries
Starting points, not fixed departures. Tell us which one is closest and we change the rest.
Classic Kazakhstan in 10 days: Almaty, Charyn, Kolsai, Astana and Turkistan
The first-visit route and the one we build most often. Three nights in Almaty, two in the mountains at Saty below the Kolsai lakes,…
Kazakhstan with children in 10 days
The obstacle to family travel in Kazakhstan is not safety, food, hygiene or attitude. Kazakh families are large, children go everywhere, and nobody will…
Trekking the Tien Shan in 12 days: Almaty, Kolsai and Sayram-Ugam
Kazakhstan's walking is concentrated in a narrow band along its southeastern border, where the Tien Shan comes up out of the steppe. That band…
Romantic Kazakhstan in 8 days: mountains, a canyon and a lake
Kazakhstan is not an obvious honeymoon country and we are not going to pretend it is a soft one. There are no beach resorts…
Steppe, city and table: Kazakhstan in 11 days
Kazakh food is nomadic food and it makes sense once you understand what it is for. A cuisine built around animals that walk, milk…
Boutique Kazakhstan in 10 days: four places worth the rate
The honest position first. Kazakhstan does not have a boutique hotel circuit. Almaty has a genuinely good set of hotels, several of them small…
Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan in 14 days
These two countries share a mountain range, a language family and a nomadic history, and they feel completely different once you are in them.…
Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan in 21 days
This is the Central Asia trip that makes the region make sense. Kazakhstan is the empty half: steppe, mountains, desert, a nomadic culture, and…
Tell us roughly what you want. We will tell you honestly what works.
A named consultant in Tel Aviv, our own people on the ground, and a written plan you can argue with before you commit to anything.