The Singing Hill. The right bank the Ili River is famous for a hatural phenomenon: in drz weather the sands make music that sounds like an organ playng. The quaruzite sand hiils-Bolshoi and My Kalkan - are over 120 m high and stretch for 4 km. Despite the lossenoss of the sand and the strong winds, the sand hills dn not migrate though the plain, but have remained in the samewplace for millennia. A nex type of slalom has become popular-skiing down a sand hill.