MANGYSTAU TOURS
Mangystau Tours
Mangystau is one of the top destinations of the vast Kazakhstan and clearly the number one destination in Western Kazakhstan. We offer a number of different length tours in Mangystau area. In case you wish to customize your tour, please contact us.
Mangystau Group Tours in 2025
Mangystau Private Tours in 2025
Mangystau Tours Information
Mangystau tours mostly start and end in Aktau and include most of the time extensive periods of driving in a 4WD car in desert-like conditions, far away from any services. Depending on the time you have available, Mangystau offers sights from few days to more than a week. During a Mangystau tour, you will see rugged landscapes with beautiful geological formations in addition to sacred religious sites that date back to times long before Islam reached this part of the world. There are also flora and fauna that have adapted to the dry conditions of the Mangystau region.
The accommodation during Mangystau tours is mostly in tents and sometimes in yurts or guesthouses. The food served during Mangistau tours will be mostly cooked at place as there are very few villages or other locations serving food where the best Mangistay sights are located. Nature and landscape photographers will love this region and drone pilots will shoot the photos and videos of their lives! The last part of the journey to visit Mangystau sights includes often some hiking and sometimes also ascending to a point of view. Mangystau private tours allow more flexibility and unplanned stops or deviations from the planned tour itinerary but the group tours must follow carefully the planned routes and time schedules.
It is also possible to organize a transfer to Aktau & Mangustay Tour from Uzbekistan, for example if you are visiting Khorezm, the Aral Sea or Khiva.
Mangystau Tourism
It is estimated that about 700 000 tourists visited Mangystau in 2024 and the amount is expected to continue to increase. Kazakh authorities have also noticed the potential of tourism in the area and are implementing projects to improve the tourism infrastructure in the area.
Page updated 24.1.2025
