Tour from Almaty city to Baikonur city, Central Kazakhstan
Journey from Almaty to Baikonur, watching the launch of the spacecraft, traveling around the Kyzylorda region and central Kazakhstan. This tour includes visits to the Kyzylorda region, the city of Baikonur, the launch complex and the Baikonur space port, observation of the launch of a spacecraft, a city tour of the city of Kyzylorda and Baikonur, etc.
- Distance of the route:
1500 km
- Season time:
Best May – Good August
- Best time:
all season April – October
- Group size:
1 – 25 person
- Days & nights:
3 days - 2 nights
Tour itinerary:
Morning transfer to Almaty city airport with guide and driver.
Check in Flight to Kyzil Orda # KC975 at 08.40 from Almaty apple point – arrival in Kyzylorda at 11.15 local time, meeting at the Korkit Ata airport in Kyzylorda desert city – transfer Kyzil Orda desert point – Josali local village – Baikonur desert of space city (234 km 2 hours).
Check point of Baikonur city, town border formalities, entering, transfer to the city hotel.
Excursion in Baikonur city: museum of history and space port, cosmonaut alley, Yuriy Gagarin monument, Soyuz rocket monument, layout of nuclear rocketCC-17 (Satana ba NATO classification), local market ect. Abay Kunanbaev Kazakh poet monument, first train museum of space port.
By the way we will see special structures with no analogs in the world.
Transfer to Soyuz complex, site # 254, where you will see astronaut report for ready to start.
Later we will see how astronauts sit in a bus and leave to site # 1, visiting site # 254, transfer to helicopter place to see the launch Soyuz TMA, after visit warm place of start complex. Monument of first satellite, transfer to site # 2, museum there, house of Yuri Gagarin.
Baikonur spaceport way to space.
Start excursion to Baikonur spaceport, by the way we will see constructed structures the world’s only, start complex Proton K, Bayterek site # 20, (55 km 1 hour), excursion to Proton complex, from here was launched 100 different rockets, transfer to mounting and testing facility Soyuz (29km), site # 254, visiting site #112, lunch at the complex? After lunch transfer to Gagarin start, site # 1, (8 km? 20 min), excursion to site #1, visiting monument for first satellite, transfer to site #2, visiting space museum (1 km, 10 min) with all artifacts, museum under sky with legendary Buran space shuttle, different space mechanisms, visiting memorial house of Yuriy Gagarin and German Titov and Korolev memorial house. Back to Baikonur city (50 km, 40 min). Free time. Dinner and overnight at the hotel.
Transfer: Baikonur – Kyzil Orda (234 km).
Flight to Almaty CK 976 at 12.00 – arrival in Almaty – end of program.
Photogallery:
Comments 2