Visiting the highlanders. Winter trip to Chechnya and Ingushetia

Breakfast at the hotel. 

Meeting with a local guide at the hotel.

Today's route to the Argun Gorge will take you along an ancient road cut into limestone rocks, admiring the wild and untouched nature, surrounded by fabulously beautiful landscapes.

Today you are expected to:

• ancient sentinel watchtowers, where you will get acquainted with the history of the creation of a Unified Alarm system;
• Nihaloevsky waterfalls, which consist of several waterfalls. The smallest of them has a height of 2 meters, the tallest is 32 meters;
• visit to the Huseyn Isaev Museum of Local Lore on the territory of the Phakoch castle complex;
• the famous Ushkaloy twin towers are located on the riverbank and built into the rock recess;
• glass bridge over a stormy mountain river;
• The city of the dead is "Tsoi-Pede", the name of which translates as "sunny city". These are 40 crypt houses, where in ancient times people came and waited for death.

Lunch. 

18:00 Estimated time of return to the hotel.

Dinner (on your own).

Breakfast at the hotel.

09:30 Departure for an excursion and a master class to the hereditary master of artistic forging, famous far beyond the borders of the republic, Movladi Yusupov, who, in addition to cold steel, antique hatchets, bows and crossbows, chain mail and swords, makes jewelry and national musical instruments, which he plays himself. 

A master class in an ancient horseshoe forge.

Visit to the ethnographic complex "Eagle's Nest" in the village of Makhkhkety. 

This is an amazing, legendary place, located in a beautiful place, surrounded by mountains, where one of the best museum collections of the Chechen Republic is located. 

Not only will you learn the interesting history of the museum's creation, but you will also be able to feel the spirit of that time, take a trip into the past.

Arrival in the city of Shali, where a new mosque "Pride of Muslims" was opened in the fall of 2019. 

Transfer to the village of Hermenchuk.

Excursion to the ethnographic complex "Shira-Yurt", where the ancient way of life of the Vainakhs is presented in the open-air museum. 

The museum complex includes 40 residential buildings located on three streets, a blacksmith shop, a mill, a mosque and other structures typical of the Chechen village of the XVIII century. 

After a tour of the complex, during which you will learn about the customs and traditions of the Chechens, their history and culture, we will have a delicious and hearty lunch with a presentation of Chechen cuisine in the restaurant on its territory.  

A master class on making traditional Chechen tortillas with pumpkin and cottage cheese.

We will arrange a photo shoot in national costumes against the background of ancient sakli. 

Visit to Argun and the Aymani Kadyrova Mosque, the first mosque in Russia built in the high-tech style. 

18:00 Estimated time of return to Grozny.

Transfer to the hotels.

Free time.

Dinner (on your own).

Breakfast at the hotel.  

Meeting with the guide, departure to Ingushetia.

Ingushetia is the smallest republic in the south of Russia. 

Here we will meet with abandoned ancient villages, countless tower complexes, ancient temples and tombs.

Crossing the border post, checking documents.

In one day we will visit all the main sights of Ingushetia:

• Assin Gorge is a magnificent canyon, amazing in its beauty, shrouded in secrets. This place is also interesting for its historical and archaeological heritage, which has preserved architectural monuments of the Middle Ages and more ancient times;
• inspection of the medieval center of Ingushetia — Egikal from the observation deck. The complex is located in the Targim basin of the Dzheyrakh district at the foot of the Tsey Loam mountain;
• Tsey-Loam pass - from the height of the mountain pass (2100 m above sea level) you will have a magnificent view of the Dzheyrakh gorge and the snow-capped cone of Kazbek, one of the highest peaks of the Caucasus (5033 meters);
• you will see the Erzi tower complex ("eagle" in Ingush), consisting of nine combat and thirty residential towers located on the mountainside above the Armkhi River. The height of the combat towers reaches 30 meters, the width of the walls at the foot is 6 meters. Historians date the construction of combat towers to the XV-XVII centuries.

Lunch.

• a visit to the Vnushki tower complex — it consists of three main towers, two of which stand on top of one cliff, the third on the opposite cliff. The towers of the complex attract attention from afar, they are located in the picturesque Guloi Hi River gorge against the backdrop of impressive cliffs and ridges of the Caucasus;
• getting acquainted with the oldest Christian church in Russia — Thaba-Yerdy in the Assinsky gorge, on the right tributary of the Assy River, near the border with Georgia. Thaba-Yerdy is amazing because for centuries it has been a material example of the intertwining of architectural and cultural traditions of a thousand years ago.

20:00 Estimated time of return to Grozny.

Dinner (on your own).

Breakfast at the hotel. 

Rooms are available until 12:00.

Self-service transfer to the airport.