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Zaamin Resort Area

A mountain resort at 2,000–2,400 m beside Zaamin National Park, with a Soviet-era sanatorium, a cable car and a long suspension bridge.

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About the place

The Zaamin resort area lies on the edge of Zaamin National Park in the Turkestan range, at roughly 2,000 to 2,400 metres. The mountain air made it a health retreat in Soviet times, when the Zaamin sanatorium was built here. In 2021 the area was declared a special tourist zone, and new hotels, including Wyndham-branded properties, have opened since then.

A cable car opened in 2023 rises 530 metres to an upper station at 2,102 metres. Another attraction is a suspension bridge 305 metres long that hangs 150 metres above the ground. Around the resort spread the juniper forests that the national park was created to protect, so the hotels make a base for time in the mountains.

Why go

  • Cable car to 2,102 m
  • 305 m suspension bridge
  • Juniper forests of the national park

Nearby

  • Zaamin National ParkNature

    2 km away

    Zaamin National Park

    Juniper forest, mountain meadows and rocky gorges on the northern slopes of the Turkestan ridge, above the town of Zomin.

  • Attractions

    5 km away

    Suffa Radio Observatory (RT-70)

    An unfinished Soviet-era radio observatory at 2,324 m on the Suffa plateau, built around a 70-metre RT-70 dish begun in 1981.

  • Nature

    7 km away

    Chortangi Gorge

    Deep gorge in Zaamin National Park, about 450 m deep and 500 m wide, with a waterfall and bearded vultures overhead.

  • Archaeology

    21 km away

    Tugunbulak and Tashbulak

    Medieval highland towns of the 6th–11th centuries at 2,000–2,200 m in the Turkestan range, published in Nature in 2024; Tugunbulak covers about 120 ha.