Photos: John Pavelka from Austin, TX, USA, CC BY 2.0; John Pavelka from Austin, TX, USA, CC BY 2.0
Excursion
Yangykala Canyon and Gozli Ata
The price depends on your dates, group size and hotels. Send a request and we will reply with an offer.
Yangykala means “Fire Fortresses”, a fitting name for this 24-kilometre stretch in the north-west of Turkmenistan, also called the Grand Canyon of Central Asia. The rainbow cliffs, shaped over millennia by sea, wind and rain, turn surreal in the golden evening light, and few travellers reach them.
You arrive in Turkmenbashi, the largest port on the Caspian, and drive about 200 km to the canyon. The next day, after breakfast, you continue to Gozli Ata and return to Turkmenbashi.
Highlights
- A walk and photo session among the red cliffs, a landscape straight from Mars
- A night in a hotel
- Gozli Ata, a peaceful holy place in the desert
- Free time in Turkmenbashi, then the flight to Ashgabat
Included
- Flight
- All transfers by 4x4
- Guide
- Hotel with breakfast
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
