Morning plan will depend on the accommodation type. If we stayed overnight in Bas'shi at a guest house, then after a breakfast we enter a Park again and drive to Aktau Mountains. If we camped in Aktau, then a breakfast will be served early and after it we will start hiking. The hike's length will be adjusted to the time we have and accommodation type. But in both cases you will be able to explore the incredible beauty of the colorful clay mountains. The Aktau Mountains are the bottom of the ancient Ili Lake, from which the huge Balkhash now remains on the territory of Kazakhstan. For millions of years, amazing processes took place at the bottom of the ancient reservoir, and they left their mark in the form of multi-colored layers. Each color and layer represents its own era of development of the planet - we still find fossils in the sediments. After the disappearance of the lake, the wind and sediments completed the work on the landscapes. So now we can admire the incredible views.

After Aktau hike, we go for lunch to the Katutau volcano crater. The word Katutau translates as "harsh mountains" from Kazakh. This is a very old, badly eroded mountain exits of volcanic rocks. Volcanic rock is very brittle and easily shatters by physical impact. Water, time and wind carved in the rock bizarre shape.

After a lunch in Katutau, we start heading back to Almaty.