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Koytendag and the Dinosaur Plateau

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Excursion

Koytendag and the Dinosaur Plateau

About 12 hours · from Kerki, some 3,000 dinosaur footprints

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The Dinosaur Plateau is a great limestone slab on a slope of the Koytendag mountains, 1,500 metres up, 3 km from the mountain village of Hojapil, inside the Koytendag reserve. About 145–150 million years ago it was a shallow lagoon, and dinosaurs left prints in the mud that later turned to stone.

Highlights

  • About 400 metres long and 300 metres wide
  • About 3,000 well-preserved footprints and 31 trackways
  • Thought to belong to three Jurassic species: megalosaurus, iguanodon and tyrannosaurus
  • Proposed for the UNESCO World Heritage list

Included

  • Private professional guide
  • Entrance tickets
  • Transport for the whole excursion (1–2 people: sedan, 4–6: minivan, 6–10: minibus)

Good to know

  • This is a private guided excursion: no other tourists join you or your group
  • You choose the order of the sights
  • Pick a start time that suits you
  • It can start straight from the airport or station, where our guide will meet you

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