Treasure hunting tour of the republics of the North Caucasus. Autumn-winter tour

Derbent does not mean "Connected Gates" for nothing. 

This Bronze Age city, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is located on a 2-3 km strip of the Caspian Sea coast! 

The oldest Juma Mosque in Russia, the Armenian Church of the Savior and the synagogue peacefully coexist here.

In the Old City, behind the most powerful 3.6 km long double wall, a masterpiece of fortification, stands the Naryn-Kala fortress — the faithful guardian of Derbent for 1.5 thousand years! 

A huge courtyard houses thermal baths, ruins of buildings, an underground room in the form of a cross — the earliest Christian temple of the IV-V centuries. 

You will be amazed by the colossality of the citadel, and on a bus sightseeing tour in the Caucasus you will feel like you are traveling through time!

Return to Makhachkala in the evening. 

We're having dinner. 

We are resting.

The Khunzakh plateau is one of the most visited attractions in Dagestan. 

This is a huge plateau with an area of more than 250 km2, but in the east it is dissected by the canyon of the Tobot-Tsolotl River. 

How amazing it is: to drive through an absolutely flat area, and suddenly find yourself on the shore of a huge canyon, into which several waterfalls descend at once, scattering in fine splashes still in the air. 

There are many historical monuments on the plateau: the Araninsky fortress, several ancient villages that have preserved their identity. 

Here, on the plateau, there is a small village – Tsada – the birthplace of Rasul Gamzatov, the monument "White Cranes". 

The hero of L.N. Tolstoy, Hadji Murad, once lived here. 

There are many wonders here, dedicate your day to getting to know them.

Return to Makhachkala. 

Supper. 

Rest.

The deepest in Eurasia, the second in the world, the Sulak Canyon with a meter of 1920 m overcame Colorado! 

On its cliffs, "oh, how dizzy"! Of course, because an abyss is opening up under your feet! 

But there is a bottom – this is the "strip of sky" of the Sulak River.

A trip to the Caucasus as part of an excursion tour leads to the Chirkeyskaya HPP — the most powerful in the North Caucasus, with an arched dam, the highest in Europe – 233 m! 

The hydroelectric power station has created a man—made reservoir - Lake Chirkeyskoye. 

Boats float on the azure-blue water, swim in the summer, relax on the beach.

Further on our journey in the Caucasus, we are called by the world of the Yellow Sand dune, where the film "White Sun of the Desert" was shot. 

The golden miracle outside the desert is a mystery even for scientists!

In the evening we return to Makhachkala. 

We're having dinner. 

We are resting.

Breakfast, fees and we leave further along the route. 

Vladikavkaz is a fortress that grew up at the entrance to the Daryal Gorge. 

The fortress that protected the road between Russia and Georgia. 

Due to its convenient location, the fortress grew and developed rapidly. 

Having lost its strategic importance, it acquired the status of a trading city.

Modern Vladikavkaz has retained the charm of a merchant city in the historical center. 

The real adornment of Vladikavkaz is its parks, the embankment of the Terek River, and beautifully preserved cultural and architectural monuments.

Accommodation at the Vladikavkaz hotel. 

Supper. 

Rest

The country of combat and ancestral towers welcomes us on a journey through the North Caucasus, demonstrating the Khamkhi, Targim, and Egikal complexes, which in ancient times guarded the Great Silk Road from the Assinsky Gorge to the City of the Sun – Magas. 

One of the "Seven Wonders of the World in Russia" is the duo of Vnushka towers in the heart of Ingushetia, the Targim basin.

The deification of stone is the essence of tower giants: their massifs are built on rocks without any foundation, and the stability of the buildings is supported only by the huge lower stones, which are inferior even to human height! 

An excursion tour of Ingushetia will take us to the "aksakal" of the temples of Russia, the medieval Thaba-Yerdy – a rarity of the architecture of the Caucasus!

We return to the hotel in Vladikavkaz. 

We're having dinner. 

We are resting.

The peculiarity of Alanya, the "golden bottom" of the richest Sarmatian culture, is the "city of the dead". 

Dargavs, which preserves mummies, skulls, and human bones, consists of almost 100 crypts — fairy-tale houses.

Next, a bus tour of Ossetia goes to the fantastic Kurtatinsky gorge, where the ensemble of the Alan monastery stands, based on the watchtower Alan towers of the XVIII century, and the cathedral is a copy of the Byzantine—style temple of the X century. the capital of the Ancient Albanian diocese.

In the caves of Dzivigis fortress in limestone cliffs, you will be amazed by titanic structures that were created first by natural elements, then by human hands. 

Indeed, North Ossetia is a storehouse of wonders!

We are returning to Vladikavkaz. 

Supper. 

Rest

The first goal of the excursion tour in Kabardino-Balkaria is the giant Chegem gorge with beautiful waterfalls. 

Thin strands of water, foaming stormy jets and weeping waterfalls gathering in streamlets, drops protruding from the rocks — a fascinating sight!

Pyatigorsk is the resort capital of the Caucasian Mineral Waters. 

In the evening, you can walk along its illuminated avenues, through the Flower Garden Park, admire the views of evening Pyatigorsk from the height of the Mikhailovsky spur or Goryachaya Mountain.

Accommodation in a hotel in Pyatigorsk.

Today, on an excursion tour in the Caucasus, there is an ascent along the Elbrus cable car to the dizzying height of 3450 m to the Mir station. 

You will get acquainted with the history of the conquest of the dormant volcano, considered one of the most beautiful peaks in the world, mystical and real events, explore the panoramas of Elbrus and the Caucasian ridge, which fascinate anyone!

You could already see them through intermediaries — webcams, but "your" view of the unreal world of eternal snows and glaciers, changing reliefs, colorful alien paintings is a completely different matter! 

There is a cafe with pastries, coffee, tea, warming mulled wine at your service. 

Impressions and emotions from traveling in the Caucasus will definitely be enough "for the rest of your life"!

Return to Pyatigorsk.

Moussa Achitara Mountain with its cable lift and magnificent observation deck, presenting panoramic views of a 30-kilometer chain of mountains, coniferous forests, alpine meadows, stormy rivers, sparkling waterfalls, snow-capped peaks, mirrored glaciers, picturesque gorges and bizarre peaks, is the next point of an excursion tour of Karachay—Cherkessia. 

The unique beauty of Dombay is in the palm of your hand!

Plus — the enjoyment of the air with coniferous and floral aromas, the taste of the icy crystal water of the rivers, the originality of legends, the gifts of the local market, souvenirs, fees, honey, wool products, —the box is full"! 

Traveling in the North Caucasus is always a "mountain" of emotions and "waterfalls" of impressions!

Next, on an excursion tour to the North Caucasus, rest in a complex of therapeutic mineral waters.

Return to Pyatigorsk.

The famous Koltso Mountain is one of the symbols of the resort of Kislovodsk, a complex of Honey waterfalls. 

These are the pearls located in the vicinity of Kislovodsk, and today you will be able to get to know them.

Kislovodsk Resort Park is one of the largest regular parks in Europe. 

Narzan Gallery is a masterpiece created by Samuel Upton, the grotto of the Demon, the bridge "Ladies' Caprice", a floral calendar – all these beauties will be available to you during a tour of the resort city of Kislovodsk.

Return to Pyatigorsk in the evening.

It's time to go home! 

Our fascinating, informative, enriching impressions and knowledge sightseeing tour of the North Caucasus is coming to an end. 

Finally, we will walk around Pyatigorsk, the Flower Garden Park, in the Resort area we will visit the symbols of the city: this is the mountain and the sculpture "Eagle", the grotto of Diana, the Elizabethan Gallery, the Aeolian Harp gazebo on the Mashuk spur, from where the view of Pyatigorsk and the mountains is simply magnificent! 

We will reach the lake "Failure".

The vivid memory of the majestic beauty of the North Caucasus will stay with you for a long time! 

If we have managed to provide you with genuine Caucasian hospitality, come again!

Place and time of completion of the tour: Mineralnye Vody, 16:00.