Natural attractions of Aktobe region –
Unusual natural formations of the Aktobe region –
Akbota-Sankibai Hill is a natural formation, a chalk mountain that resembles a dancing girl in a fluffy skirt, so the mountain looks like a white ship. This place is also a sacred and sacred object. There is a certain burial monument on the super mountain that has a sacred status, so this place is also a place of pilgrimage. In this natural formation, you can see different images if you look from different angles. Mount Akbota-Sankibai is located at an altitude of 200 meters above sea level, as well as this place has a second name "Chess Princess", which is known in the world of geology. This place is of great interest to geologists from all over the world.
How to get there, visit –
The chalk mountain Akbota-Sankibai is located 45 kilometers from the village of Miyaly, Bayganinsky district, Aktobe region at an altitude of 200 meters above sea level, Aktobe region, Republic of Kazakhstan.
Information –
There is a legend associated with Mount Akbota-Sankibai, which says that in ancient times a warrior-batyr lived in these places, whose name was Sankibai, he had a daughter Akbota, she was quite young, she was all 16 years old. When Sankibai batyr went to meet Abylkayyr Khan, Kalmyks bandits attacked his tribe in the steppe and robbed his settlement. During the attack, his daughter Akbota died, according to other information, his daughter survived that attack, but gathered the remnants of a tribe of capable men, put on armor herself and rushed in pursuit of the Kalmyks. But the Kalmyks turned out to be more cunning, they waited for Akbota's combat team, lured them into an ambush and killed them there. It happened just in the place where Mount Akbota-Sankibai is now located. And here the father buried his daughter, after that this place is considered sacred.
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