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The Lake is located in the east of the Central Kazakhstan. It’s the northwest extension of the region known as Dgungarian Gate, the gate from arid steppes of China to the southern uplands of Kazakhstan, the beginning of the mountain range of Dgungarian Ala-Tau.
Alakol is about forty five meters deep.
Alakol is ninety kilometers long and it has few islands. In the summer water is warm enough for swimming but the lake is rich in fauna. Especially it’s interesting for bird finders.
Birding for Common Terns, Great Black-headed Gull, Caspian Gull and Tern, Grey Heron, Terek Sandpiper, European Bee-eaters, European, Oriental Turtle-doves, Relict Gull, Black-headed Wagtails, Eurasian Tree Sparrows, Common Nightingales, Hoopoes, Paddyfield Warblers, Siberian Stonechats, Common Quails, White-winged Terns, Collared Pratincoles, Kentish Plovers, Garganey, Red-crested Pochards, Dalmatian Pelicans, Greylag Geese, Whooper Swans, Eurasian Curlew, Wood Sandpipers, Little Stints, Ruddy Shelduck, Pied Avocets, Black-winged Stilts, Western Marsh Harriers, Common Snipe, Great Reed Warbler, summer-plumaged Red and Black-necked Grebes, Richard's Pipit, Long-legged Buzzard, Isabelline Shrike, Barred Warblers,
Pallas's Grasshopper Warbler, Red-billed Chough, Red-fronted Serin, Rose-colored Starling, White-throated Dipper, Pied
Wheatear, Eastern Imperial Eagle, Monk Vulture, Lammergeier, Black Kite, Eurasian Hobby, Common Kestrel, Black Stork.
