Cape Dzhigalgan (“collapsed land” in the Kazakh language) is the main attraction of the Tub-Karagan peninsula located on the Mangyshlak peninsula on the eastern shore of the Caspian Sea in the west of the Mangystau region.

This is a mountain range with a giant hollow of almost perfect round shape littered with numerous rocks. Some boulders reach the size of a small village house. The rocks are scattered so chaotically that there is a feeling that the collapse has occurred recently. Cape Dzhigalgan on Google Maps. Photos by: Roman Smirnov.

Despite the fact that this landscape is thousands of years old, it is unsafe to approach the edge – the rocks are still very unstable, moreover, strong steppe winds almost always blow here.

There are two main hypotheses of the origin of such a picturesque monument of nature: the collapse of the soil as a result of a powerful earthquake or the collapse of karst cavities.

Tags: Aktau city · Mangystau oblast

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