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Kugitang Nature Reserve attractions
Kugitang Nature Reserve attractions
Hodjachilgazbaba Canyon, 28 kilometers long
Daraya Canyon with walls up to 600 meters high,
Aira Baba peak, highest mountain of Turkmenistan, 3137 meters,
Um-bar Depe Canyon with a waterfall 28 meters high,
Plateau of Dinosaurs with more than 400 footprints of dinosaurs on a steep limestone slope. The largest of these footsteps has a diameter of 80 centimeters. According to the legend the footprints were left by elephants used by the armies of Alexander the Great. The footprints were left on the bottom of a shallow lake. When the lake dried up, the footprints baked in the sun. Later, a volcanic eruption sealed them in lava. The giant dinosaurs were accompanied by smaller ones whose footprints are similar to a human foot.
Kainar Baba sulphur spring
Kyrk Gyz Cave (Forty Girls Cave), one of the most revered pilgrimage shrines in Turkmenistan.
Kaptykan (Kap Kutan) Cave, part of the most extensive network of limestone caves in Central Asia. The caves were already mentionned by the Greek geographer Diodorus Siculus They were used by smugglers in the 18th and 19th centuries and explored by Soviet geologists Yalkapov and Maltsev. The first hall of the Kaptykan Cave is known as 'Father Christmas and Snow Maiden' because of the two huge figures formed by the stalactites and stalagmites.
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