Borovoe
Kazakhstan’s Borovoe Resort (which is in Akmola Region now) is over a hundred years old. As early as 1910 the local people turned their attention to the medicinal properties of water and mud in the local lakes, and special microclimate created by pineries and birch woods. Over time, resorts and mud baths began to emerge in the village and its surroundings where visitors could cure just about all respiratory system diseases.
Today, the Shuchinsk-Borovoe resort zone, the pearl of Kazakhstan, is annually visited by thousands of tourists both from Kazakhstan, and from the CIS and far-abroad countries. Guests have at their disposal therapeutic mud, massages, kumys therapy, and even pantotheraphy (taking baths with biologically active substances derived from horns and blood of Altai deer, which has well naturalized in the land of Kokchetav).
The most curious guests may listen to the many legends of the local Zhumbaktas and Oak Zhetpes hills and visit the meadow and granite throne of Abylai Khan (near Borovoe Lake), created by nature itself. There is also a museum in the region dedicated to the memory of this great and wise ruler, who lived in these lands in the 18th century.
There are hundreds of species of edible mushrooms growing around lakes of Borovoe, Shchuchinsk, Zerenda, and Big and Small Chebachye, which this region is also famous for. People take home fragrant honey and local berries from here, including sea buckthorn, ash berry, cranberries and blueberries...
The government invests a lot in the Shuchinsk-Borovoe Resort infrastructure to attract tourists. Burabay State National Natural Park was created in 2020 for this purpose. The plan is to transform this Kazakhstan’s resort into a year-round resort by 2020. In the coming years it is expected to increase the tourist flow to 1 million people a year.
