Tamgaly is in Kazakhstan, located about 120 km to the Northwest of Almaty.
Tamgaly means "painted or marked place". The road to
Tamgaly is narrow and in bad conditions, so it takes a while to get there. There
are about 5000 petroglyphs to be seen, the oldest have been scratched into the
rock during the bronze age. You can skip a few. But don’t skip the burial
grounds. There are snakes hidden in the scarce vegetation. The site is a UNESCO
world heritage; link: http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1145. More information also on
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamgaly.
Landscape around Tamgaly
A map at the entrance - good to know some Russian
Warning of snakes
And here it is, the deadly poisonous snake - a viper ...
... and it moves!
Quite a lot of petroglyphs depict animals
He looks like a shaman to me
Maybe they just were merry and danced, maybe they already had too much of an intoxicating beverage
A big horse and a small man
Good to know that Tamgaly has a dog on watch
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