Natural Attraction
Bozjyra
Welcome to the breathtaking Bozzhira Plateau! This stunning natural wonder is located in the western region of Kazakhstan and features a unique landscape of eroded rock formations and beautiful canyons.
Bozjyra is a magnificent creation of weathering and erosion, located on the territory of the Ustyurt Plateau. Here you can see vast clay deserts, limestone mountains, buttes more than 200 meters (650 ft) high. In the Mesozoic Era this area was covered by the Tethys Ocean, so now here you can find a lot of fossilized shells and teeth of prehistoric sharks.
Bozjyra is part of the Ustyurt Plateau, the bottom of the former Tethys Ocean that covered the area millions of years ago. The waves of the ocean, then the sun and wind once all the water disappeared, shaped the landscape into what can be seen today, the arid, light grey scenery making it look like a piece of the Moon on Earth.
“I visited Mangystau in August of 2019. It felt absolutely amazing and otherworldly. The moment I remember the best was when it was night and I was sitting on the cliff alone, watching the moon set on the horizon and the milky way above the Bozjyra rock formations,” Juuso Hamalanainen, a tourist from Helsinki, told The Astana Times.
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