Tamgaly tass on the river Ili
Description:
Tamgaly Tas is a very interesting excursion. We will go to the river Ely, where you will see cave paintings. Painted stones") - a tract near the Ili River 120 km north of the city of Almaty, where many petroglyphs, images of mysterious deities, late Buddhist inscriptions have been preserved on the rocks.
Among the petroglyphs there are about a thousand rock images, among which the most famous are the images of Buddha Shakyamuni, Buddha of the Infinite Light of Amitabha and Bodhisattva of Infinite Compassion Avalokiteshvara.
In addition to Buddhist drawings and inscriptions, there is a stone with ancient Turkic runic scripts of the VIII-IX centuries, presumably left by the Kipchaks. Tamgaly-Tas is protected by the government of Kazakhstan as a cultural monument and is an open-air Buddhist temple, as evidenced by a sign at the entrance to the tract.
The price includes:
- transport
- guide