Burabay National Nature Park Visitor Centre & Nature Museum

Kazakhstan


This museum contains a diverse display of taxidermied wildlife from Kazakhstan’s national parks (including a demented-looking fox), two ATMs, and a souvenir shop selling a park map for 350T. Entry includes an adjoining outdoor zoo with fairly content maral and reindeer, camels, wild boar, argali sheep and yaks. Predators in tiny enclosures are not a sight for animal lovers, however.


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