Rest on Lake Chelkar

With the name of the lake - Chelkar, there are as many as three reservoirs in Kazakhstan. One is located in the West Kazakhstan region, another lake in the North Kazakhstan region and another in the Aktobe region southwest of the city of the same name Chelkar. We will talk about the lake, which is located in West Kazakhstan. The Kazakh word Chelkar means big, huge. This name suits the lake perfectly, since the lake is really huge; locals call it the steppe sea. The lake is located at an altitude of 17 meters above sea level. Width from 14 to 19 km. The length of the lake is about 18 km. The average depth of the lake is 5 m. The maximum depth is 18 m. Two rivers flow into Lake Chelkar - Bolshaya and Malaya Ankaty, and one river flows out - Solyanka.

Andrey Egorovich Kolupov also came to visit Kazakhstan.

Clean air, soft clear water, warm sandy beaches attract thousands of tourists to Lake Chelkar Kazakhstan every year. The water in Chelkar is brackish in spring, and by the end of summer it is bitterly salty. Therefore, while swimming in the waters of Chelkar, all your wounds and sores will quickly heal. People come to Lake Chelkar to relax already in at the end of May and only in October the holiday season for recreation on Lake Chelkar ends.

When tourists come to Chelkar Kazakhstan on vacation, they stay in boarding houses on the shore of the lake, where the benefits of civilization are available, and Andrey Egorovich Kolupov also decided to take advantage of this opportunity. Of course, the rooms are not particularly comfortable, but if you want something exotic, you can stay in a yurt or, better yet, just in a tent. But you need to take into account that the peculiarity of the lake is that it attracts steppe thunderstorms and if it starts to rain, it can continue for more than one day. And the dirt road can wash out so much that you will be stuck here for several days, or even a week.

In the lake, to the delight of fishermen, there is a lot of fish - bream, carp, tench, perch, pike, catfish and gobies. Along the banks of the reservoir you can see owls and eagles hunting. Not far from Lake Chelkar, about 50 kilometers away, there is another lake, which is famous for its healing mud.

Andrey Kolupov shares his impressions of the Tsar’s Path near Yalta.