Atyrau: Holiday Apartments and Holiday Homes

Atyrau combines the banks of the Ural River with city parks, beaches, museums, and insights into Kazakh cuisine. Those wishing to rent a holiday apartment in Atyrau can then continue their search for accommodation.

The Atyrau Regional History and Local Lore Museum has galleries dedicated to archaeology, ethnography, regional history from the 12th to the 20th century, modern history, culture, and literature. It contains 52,720 collection items. The exhibits also include a jug found in Sarayshyk with a fragment of a verse from the 13th century attributed to Zhusup Balasaguni.

The Atyrau Regional Museum of Art and Applied Arts, named after S. Sariyev, displays more than 1,200 exhibits. Works by well-known Kazakh painters are displayed in eight galleries. Victory Park is home to the Memorial Eternal Flame, which was erected in 2000 as a five-pointed iron star in a one-hectare, cobblestone-paved avenue. The Sultan-Baybars Monument is a 7.2-metre-high granite statue; including the pedestal, its total height is 11.8 metres.

Water

Atyrau's Central City Beach is located near the city centre and has sun loungers, parasols, showers, toilets, and food service areas. There are also designated safe swimming zones. On the outskirts of the city, Munayshi Beach offers water sports.

On the Ural River, steamship services organise private and group trips, including morning, evening, and daytime excursions. SUP surfing is possible on the banks of the Ural River in Atyrau; operators provide boards, paddles, and life jackets and offer lessons for beginners.

Parks

Retro Park is designed in the neoclassical style of the 1950s and includes an amphitheatre, a café, an exhibition pavilion, musical and illuminated fountains, and an artificial pond. Otbasі Park has walking paths, children's playgrounds, fountains, sports fields, and cycle paths.

Cuisine

Kazakh cuisine is the focus at Sarqyt Restaurant. It includes meat dishes, baursaks, kumys, and shubat. The offering is complemented by Kazakh-inspired interiors as well as handicrafts and clothing in the national style.

Other destinations in this accommodation overview include Karagayly, Zhana Aul and Rakusha.

For the higher-level travel overview: Atyrau.