We will visit one of the scenic natural objects of Turkmenistan – Yangikala canyons is located 165 km to the north from Balkanabat and 160 km to the east from Turkmenbashi. The word expression “Yangi kala” is translated from Turkmen as “fire fortresses”. Indeed, the sheer cliffs of white, yellow, ocher, purple and red colors, fancily carved by winds and rains, are very similar to the stone castles from a fantasy. The most beautiful canyons are during sunset, when everything is painted in a red-hot color. Once, the bottom of the canyons was the bottom of an ancient sea. In addition, today you can walk there, like in a natural park of sculptures made of compressed soil, sloughing in hands. For this

reason, although you can climb the variegated hills, you cannot handhold the buttress. Gozli Ata is one of the remotest shrine pilgrimage destinations in Turkmenistan. Its setting is also among the most beautiful. It lies in the centre of a natural bowl, surrounded byescarpments of bands of pink and white rock. Gozli Ata was reportedly a respected Sufi wholived in the early part of the 14th century. His mausoleum is a brick building with twin white domes, standing in an old graveyard containing many nicely carved stone tombs. The twin-domed structure of the mausoleum is necessary to accommodate the length of the tomb: atriangular prism perhaps three ordinary graves long. Continue to Turkmenbashi.