08:00 We have breakfast.
09:00 We leave for the mountains.
On the way, we make "panoramic stops" where the three-thousand-meter mountains will open up before you in all their grandeur. The air here is already different, fresh, cool, crystal, with the scent of pine needles and mountain grasses. You feel the lightness coming back to you.
Entrance to the reserve is 300 rubles. per day, 150 rubles for children.
The guide will accompany you all day and share not only facts, but also stories, legends and what is not found in the guidebooks.
You can take a walk, take photos, have a snack, and visit souvenir shops selling local sweets, soft, salty, and smoked Adyghe cheese, herbal teas and halyuzhs, and cute trinkets.
Visit to the Bolshaya Azishskaya cave.
The cost is 800 rubles / adult, children from 7 to 14 years old 400 rubles.
The cave is equipped with lighting and safe paths. It's cool, humid, and quiet inside, and you immediately feel like you've entered another world.
The cave was created 2 million years ago by the flow of an underwater river, and it is one of the five largest in Europe. The main wealth of this underground kingdom is stalactites, stalagmites and stalagnates, stone "sculptures" that have been growing for centuries.
The duration of the cave tour is about 30-40 minutes.
We will finish our route at the observation deck of the Iron rock at an altitude of about 2000 meters. From here you can see all the plateaus: alpine meadows, steep cliffs, snowfields, distant ridges and mountains. It's good to stand in silence for a while, take a photo and just look around.
And if you look closely at the stones under your feet, you can find a petrified shell. Yes, exactly the one that lived in the Tethys Ocean 300 million years ago!
We'll be back in the evening.
18:00 We will meet for dinner. Hot soup, barbecue cooked over an open fire and the opportunity to chat, share impressions and just relax after a busy day.
What to take with you:
- comfortable sports shoes (we will walk on trails and rocks);
- walking clothes for the weather;
- a light jacket or windbreaker (it's cool in the cave, windy at altitude);
raincoat (weather in the mountains is unpredictable); - Trekking poles never hurt;
- Use a camera or a phone with charging if you want to capture the views.
The route is for the whole day. You will receive a lunch box at breakfast, and the guide will choose a cozy place for a snack.
It is suitable for everyone who wants to see the mountains, take their time walking, get some fresh air and spend the day without haste and extreme.