Kazakh Desert

[[file:Turkistan banner Outer walls of the tomb yard - The walls of the outer yard of the tomb of Ahmed Yasavi, Turkistan}} The Kazakh Desert is the southernmost region of in Kazakhstan, spanning across the nation's sections of the vast Qyzylqum and Aral Karakum deserts. It is comprised of the Kyzylorda, South Kazakhstan, and Zhambyl provinces. This area is home to the lion's share of Kazakhstan's historical monuments, as well as the car-wreck-fascinating ecological disaster of the Aral Sea. You will also find here the main border crossings into nearby Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, and Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

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Cities

• Aral — a benighted city, with a fishing economy that was dependant on a now disappearing sea
• Shymkent — Kazakhstan's third largest city, an old market town located near Tashkent and some beautiful mountains; now booming with oil exploration
• Taras — a 2,000-year-old city, rich in archaeological finds
• Turkestan — another ancient city, long a border town between the Persian culture to the south and the Turkic nomadic culture to the north, now majority Uzbek and home to several important cultural-historical monuments

Aralsk, Qazaly Shardara, Jetisu, Saryag'ash and Lenger

More Destinations

• Aksu-Zhabagly - the oldest nature reserve of Central Asia.
• Aral Sea
• Baikonur - site of the spaceport

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