Option I
ONLY FOR RUSSIAN CITIZENS! Only if you have a permanent residence permit (not a temporary registration).
Excursion "Mountainous Ingushetia" at 5:30. Ingushetia is a land of towers and legends.
Meals on the route are available for an additional fee.
Stop for breakfast ~ at 8:00 at a roadside cafe.
Breakfast – Ossetian pies with cheese, meat, fruit fillings, shurpa, tea, coffee.
Egikal Tower Complex is the medieval capital of Ingushetia.
The temple of Thaba-Yerdy is the earliest Christian temple in the Caucasus (8th century).
Assa River gorge, decorated with stone pillars.
The Tower of Concord in the city of Magas, climbing to a glass balcony at a height of about 100 meters.
Lunch is a dry meal (take extra food with you for lunch in the mountains!).
Stop for dinner on the way back (~at 19:00) at a roadside cafe.
Dinner – at a roadside cafe in Ossetia — Ossetian pies (with cheese, with herbs, with meat, with fruit fillings), shurpa, tea, coffee, beer.
Return to the hotel ~ around 21:30.
Additional costs:
- nutrition;
- environmental fees, entrance fees — 700 rubles.
Option II
Excursion "Grozny, Shali, Argun" ~ at 6:00.
Meals on the route are available for an additional fee.
Breakfast ~ at 8:00 in a roadside cafe in Ossetia — Ossetian pies (with cheese, herbs, meat, fruit fillings), shurpa, tea, coffee.
Argun city — visit the "Mother's Heart" mosque, built in a modern style.
Shali City — visit the largest mosque in Europe, the Pride of Muslims, opened in 2019.
Grozny — visit the Cathedral Mosque "Heart of Chechnya", the Orthodox Church of St. Michael the Archangel, the complex of high-rise buildings Grozny City, the Park of Flowers, a walk through the city center.
Lunch in Grozny at local cafes or canteens.
Dinner – at a roadside cafe in Ossetia — Ossetian pies (with cheese, with herbs, with meat, with fruit fillings), shurpa, tea, coffee, beer.
Return to the hotel ~ at 21:00-22:00.
Additional costs:
- nutrition;
- services of a local guide and a high—rise - 600 rubles.
Option III
The Elbrus tour starts at 6:00.
Excursion to the foot of the highest peak of the Caucasus, Russia and Europe, Elbrus, which is the most mysterious and mystical mountain of the Caucasus.
Meals on the route are available for an additional fee.
Breakfast ~ at 7:00-8:00 at a roadside cafe — khichiny, coffee, herbal tea.
Stop (~ for 2 hours) at Cheget glade — the foot of Cheget Mountain, from the slopes of which the best view of Elbrus opens in clear weather. Two levels of the chairlift are lifted to a height of 3,100 meters above sea level.
Stop (~ 3 hours) at Azau glade, the southern foot of Mount Elbrus. Ascent of closed cable cars:
- The 1st level rises to a height of 3,000 meters above sea level — Stary Krugozor station;
- The 2nd level rises to a height of 3,500 meters above sea level — Mir station;
- The 3rd level rises to a height of 3,900 meters above sea level — Gara-Bashi station.
Lunch on Azau after descent from the cable cars ~ at 14.00. National Balkarian cuisine: shurpa, lagman, kebabs, trout, manti, khychiny.
Stop at Narzanov glade (~ 30 min.) on the way back from Elbrus. Narzan tasting, you can take unlimited bottles with you for free.
Return to the hotel ~ at 19:30-20:00.
Dinner at the hotel.
Additional costs:
- Meals: breakfasts and lunches;
- cable cars: Elbrus — 3,200 rubles, Cheget — 1,100 rubles.;
- national park — 200 rubles.
Option IV
Excursion to Dombay ~ at 6:00.
Dombay is the most famous tourist and ski center in the Western Caucasus. An edge of blue sky, intoxicating air, rushing rivers, everyone is amazed by the whiteness of huge glaciers, the emerald greenery of forests and the bright diversity of alpine meadows.
Meals on the route are available for an additional fee.
Breakfast – Karachai khichins, tea on mountain herbs.
There is a short stop in the Teberdinsky National Park: either the Ullu-Muruju Mountain River or the Kara Kel Lake.
Dombayskaya polyana (~ at 11:00.) — stop for ~ 4 hours. All the cable cars in Dombay are laid along the slopes of Moussa Achitara Mountain. Cable car ride from Dombayskaya Polyana.
- 1st ascent by closed cable car to a height of 2270 m above sea level.;
- 2nd ascent on a 6-seater chairlift to a height of 3012 m. above sea level.;
- 3rd ascent on a 4-seater chairlift to a height of 3,200 m above sea level.
Free time: photos, tasting of local cuisine, markets, souvenirs.
Lunch at local cafes: khychiny, shurpa, lagman, kebabs, trout, manti, mulled wine, tea on mountain herbs.
Return to the hotel ~ at 19:30-20:00.
Dinner at the hotel.
Additional costs:
- Meals: breakfast and lunch;
- cable cars when paying for all 3 levels at once — 2,700 rubles.;
- national park — 200 rubles.
Option V
Excursion "Upper Balkaria" at 6:50.
The Chegem Gorge is one of the most picturesque in the Caucasus, where the film "Sannikov Land" was shot, a walk through the gorge along the Chegem mountain river to the Chegem Waterfalls, the largest karst waterfalls in the Caucasus.
Meals on the route are available for an additional fee.
After the walk, a late breakfast with dishes of the national Balkarian cuisine: kebabs, zhalbaur (liver), trout, lagman, shurpa, khychiny, homemade wine, tea on mountain herbs.
Transfer to the Cherek gorge ~ 2 hours.
The village of Verkhnyaya Balkaria in the Cherek Gorge is the ancestral home of the Balkarian people. An inspection of the ancient towers.
The Cherek Gorge— stop at an observation deck near a deep cliff overlooking an ancient mountain road.
Blue Lake is the deepest karst lake in the Caucasus (it is cold).
Aushiger village — bathing in a hot spring. Take with you: bathing accessories and a towel. You can't take a towel out of the hotel!
Return to the hotel ~ at 19:00-19:30.
Dinner at the hotel.
Additional costs:
- Meals: breakfast and lunch;
- entrance to the territory of the thermal spring — 600 rubles.
Option VI
Breakfast and lunch at the hotel.
Honey Waterfalls tour at 13:00.
According to the program of the excursion:
- Koltso Mountain is one of the Lermontov places in Kislovodsk;
- tea house (free tasting of herbal tea and many types of jam. It is possible to buy: jams, herbs, sweets);
- Honey Waterfalls is a gorge of the Alikonovka River, decorated with several waterfalls. There is an ethnographic museum on the territory of the campsite, national costumes for photos.
Return to Pyatigorsk ~ at 18:30.
Additional costs:
- Meals: dinner;
- entrance to the territory of Honey waterfalls — 300 rubles.
Option VII
Breakfast and lunch at the hotel.
The Two Monasteries tour starts at 13:00.
The tour program includes visits to the Beshtaugorsky Second Athos Holy Dormition Monastery on Mount Beshtau and St. George Convent on Mount Dubrovka in the vicinity of the city of Essentuki.
During the tour, all tourists will have the opportunity to visit monasteries, venerate local shrines, order trebs, collect consecrated water, and buy memorable gifts for themselves and their loved ones.
And of course, during the tour, all pilgrims will be able to learn the history of the emergence of monasticism, the history of the appearance of monasteries on the Stavropol land and get acquainted with the monastic way of life.
Return to Pyatigorsk ~ at 18:00.
Additional costs:
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