Placed this cache when on my motocycle trip from Korea to Sweden
(Korea-Russia/Siberia-Mongolia-Kazakhstan-Russia-Finland-Sweden).
The road down in the canyon was to steep for my fully loaded bike,
so I chose to hide cache on a more reachable spot.
Cache consists of a glass jar (well, you take what you have at
hand), logbook, pencil, keystrap, some pins and a Underberg.
Read more about my trip www.tunare.se/transasia
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Commonly referred to as Dolina Zamkov (Valley of the Castles),
Charyn Canyon is one of Kazakhstan's finest nature spots. With
fantastic Grand canyon-style rock sculptures and multi-coloured
gorges, the 80 km canyon has excellent canyoning, rafting and
hiking and is best visited on a 2-day trip from Almaty or en-route
from China.
The Charyn River is running through the deep canyon with bizarre
rock monuments reminding in shape of castles and towers on top of
steep rocky walls. The Torajgir Mountain have got elevations of
more than 2000 m and are one of several southeast Kazakh mountain
ranges north of the Tian Shan.
The walls of Charyn Canyon in Dolina Zamkov area show rock
storeys of different ages and different origin. Dark rocks at the
bottom of Charyn Canyon and in the lower part of Dolina Zamkov are
volcanic lava rocks. These are the oldest rocks in this area. On
top of these rocks are layers of much younger rocks. These red
cliffs (i.e. the walls of Dolina Zamkov), consist of solid gravel
which was deposited by debris flows. The plains around Charyn
Canyon are covered with grey gravel which was deposited by rivers,
and dust which was deposited by wind. Sand and gravel on the bottom
of Charyn Canyon was deposited by Charyn River. Some gravel on
terraces above Charyn River is evidence of Charyn's former river
bed.