伊犁-阿拉套国家公园

Ile-Alatau National Park, created in 1996, covers nearly 200,000 hectares on the northern slope of the Trans-Ili Alatau, from the Chemolgan river to the Turgen. It protects spruce forests, alpine meadows, glaciers and lakes a few dozen kilometres from Almaty.

In the west, the Medeu valley leads to the high-altitude ice rink and on to Shymbulak resort, while Big Almaty Lake fills a neighbouring high valley. Further east, the Esik and Turgen gorges lead to Lake Esik, the Bear waterfall and the pastures of the Assy plateau.