Sasykol lake shore | Wild Camping
Kazakhstan
Details
- Verified:
- 9 months ago
- GPS:
- 46.59133, 80.68467
- Altitude:
- 285.9 masl
- Website:
- None
- Contributor:
-
rgruzov
Amenities
- Electricity:
- No
- Wifi:
- Yes - Slow
- Kitchen:
- No
- Restaurant:
- No
- Showers:
- No
- Water:
- No
- Toilets:
- No
- Big Rig Friendly:
- Yes
- Tent Friendly:
- Yes
- Pet Friendly:
- Yes
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Description
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Absolutely secluded flat camping ground at the lake, surrounded by cane jungle. A ruined fisherman hut nearby, lots of wild life traces, you can spot geese, ducks and if lucky - a saiga antelope, coming here to drink. Lake is accesible here but too muddy to drink or swim. Not a person in sight, absolute silence, but. fishermen might come here - in this case there is always an option to move further along the shore, road is there.
Take a right turn on the sand road from highway at 46°30.202'N 80°38.571'E, than turn right again circumnavigating the Phone Tower, then proceed straight about 6 km to the shore.
We did not use 4x4 but it might be useful if it rains.
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Can't really see anything from this spot. Can't image how anyone saw wildlife here. The reeds are 2 meters tall so you can barely see the lake. There is also a new fishermen's shack and a local was camping here.
We continued a couple hundred meters down the lake shore track and came to a beautiful little bay with a clearing in the reeds (46.598052, 80.673389). Here you have a great view over the lake. Did see many antelope footprints but no actual antelope. Did see pelicans though plus the Milky way and tons of shooting stars.
Little trash, some mosquitoes, and plenty of firewood.
I warn you again: be very careful after rains. Can get really really muddy, even on the tracks leading to the lake.
The indicated coordinates for the track are OK but this track really muddy with quite some ruts. A better track starts from the cell phone tower (46.5583379, 80.6108375) and heads steiagt to the lake, this track is way less muddy.
Report Check-InReally nice view, we've seen pelicans, antilopes saigas, horses, gerbils BUT BUT BUT even if the weather was really nice since many days, we are in Big rigs and we got stucked in the clay during 2 days and it was really hard to get out of here !
So be really careful on the track close to the lake !!!
Absolutely secluded flat camping ground at the lake, surrounded by cane jungle. A ruined fisherman hut nearby, lots of wild life traces, you can spot geese, ducks and if lucky - a saiga antelope, coming here to drink. Lake is accesible here but too muddy to drink or swim. Not a person in sight, absolute silence, but. fishermen might come here - in this case there is always an option to move further along the shore, road is there.
Take a right turn on the sand road from highway at 46°30.202'N 80°38.571'E, than turn right again circumnavigating the Phone Tower, then proceed straight about 6 km to the shore.
We did not use 4x4 but it might be useful if it rains.