Fees and Permits

The Altyn-Emel National Park is open to visitors all year round, every day, only in daylight hours.

You can enter the park from 8 am (with a pass/permit), and you must leave the park before dark (please check with the ranger).

You can stay overnight in the park in designated camping sites (you must warn the park officials about your overnight stay inside the protected territory).

When visiting the Singing Dune and the Aktau Mountains, you can enter the national park only through the village of Basshi. You cannot drive to the Aktau Mountains from the Zharkent highway and back.

When visiting the Besshatyr Mounds, you can enter the national park only through Checkpoint 1 from the village of Shengeldy. Passage through the park from the Besshatyr Mounds to the Singing Dune and back is prohibited.

Thus, tourists can only visit the Singing Dune and the Aktau Mountains at the same time (Routes 1 and 3).

Besshatyr Mounds (Route 2) are visited separately.

Prices for permits to the protected area of the Altyn-Emel National Park (the state tax on entry of vehicles):

• for entry of motorcycles, mopeds, ATVs - 0.6 MCI per day;
• for entry of passenger cars - 0.9 MCI per day;
• for entry of minibuses up to 16 seats and trucks - 3.5 MCI per day;
• for entry of buses up to 32 seats - 7 MCI per day;
• for entry of buses over 32 seats - 10.5 MCI per day.

Parking rate - 0.06 MCI per vehicle per day.

1 MCI in 2025 = KZT 3932.

To enter the Basshi village, the permit is not needed.