Sarymsakty

Group arrival. Accommodation in the guest house (group of no more than four people) or in tents on the bivouac glade. Excursion through the garden and demonstration site of rare and endangered species of plants. Exit to the route. The group moves to the abandoned lime pit, where the guides will tell about the ancient industrial facility.

Next, the group moves along the gorge "Samarbulak" to the creek of the same name. On the bank of the creek for tourists equipped with a rest spot and fireplace. After two hour walk across the Akbulak mountain stream the group comes out to the camp of herdsman Suleimenov. The camp is located at an altitude of 1,888 meters. There is an auzui (building where animal breeders live in summer), guest's yurt, corral for ten milking mares with foals.

Not far from the camp there is a specially equipped tent glade. There is a shelter from rain, a table with benches for a group of 15 people, equipped with a comfortable hearth and a toilet. There is a source of drinking water 20 m away from the camp. There are information boards and fire protection signs on the camping meadow.

The group goes further along the route. The trail goes along the Sarymsak River through a beautiful cedar forest interspersed with subalpine meadows.

Here grow leuzea sophora, rhodiola rosea, rhodiola cold, sosurea thick-leaved, purple loosestrife, and others. There live squirrels, Altai pika, roe deer, wild boars and bears.

After a three-kilometer hike to the right of the main trail you can go on a radial route to three mountain lakes: Karlygash, Maralenok, Syrttyn Kol (Upper Lake), located in the tract Toktagul, in the trail valley, which has a trough shape (the trace of the glacier).

Then tourists come to a fork where the main trail splits into three directions. One of them turns to the Piala waterfall, which rumbles in the distance. The waterfall is small but very scenic. Then one trail goes to the Mametek Pass (2,700 m) and the other to the Kyzylkum Pass (2,620 m). There is a small lake at the Mametek Pass formed by melting snow. Through this pass local people on horses go to Lake Markakol and the sources of the river Kurchum.

The path through the Kyzylkum Pass is more preferable for travel, more picturesque and more accessible to tourists.  Turpanje Lake can be visited by turning left. The lake is oval, located at an altitude of 2384 m, in the southeast protected by rocks with rocky scree, in the west covered with grass. Birds settle here, on the shores of the lakes and on overgrown islands observed humpbacked velvet scoter, a rare species, which is included in the Red Book of Kazakhstan.

After visiting Lake Turpanjem, the group goes further along the tract Kyzylkop to the unnamed upper lakes under the pass. There are many of them: three large and four small ones. There are no trees here, mainly mountain meadow vegetation. In summer, the valleys are strewn with flowers. There are ferruginous waterspout, Altai globegrass, cold gentian, and Altai bluegrass. The uppermost layer is occupied by stony, moss-lichen and herbaceous tundras with round-leaved birch, alpine meadowsweet, and dwarf forms of willow.

Descent down from the pass to the herdsman's camp. Departure of the group.