The Caucasus for two New Year's days: Dombay and the KMV region

6:30 a.m. Excursion to Dombay.

Dombay is the most famous tourist and ski resort in the Western Caucasus.

Meals on the route are available for an additional fee.

Breakfast for an additional fee (Karachai khichins, tea on mountain herbs).

There is a small stop in the Teberdinsky National Park: the mountain river Ullu-Muruju or Lake Kara-Kel.

Dombayskaya polyana (at 11:00) — stop for 4 hours.

All the cable cars in Dombay run along the slopes of the 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.

Lunch at local cafes for an additional fee: 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 (if a meal plan is selected).

Additional costs:

• breakfast and lunch, if the meal plan is selected / all meals, if the meal plan is selected without meals;
• cable cars when paying for all 3 levels at once — 2,700 rubles.;
• national park — 200 rubles.

Option I

Breakfast at the hotel (if a meal plan is selected).

Check-out from the hotel before the tour.

Excursion "Kislovodsk complex" ~ at 08:20.

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. On the territory of the campsite there is the ethnographic museum "Karachayevsky courtyard", national costumes for photos.

Lunch on the route for an additional fee (cafe or canteen).

Kislovodsk is a city park. Visit to the Nizhny Kislovodsk Resort Park:

• bridge "Ladies' caprice";
• Mirrored pond with Glass jet;
• flowerbed calendar;
• monument to Alexander Pushkin;
• Lermontov playground with a monument to Mikhail Lermontov;
• Main Narzan gallery with three narzanes (common, sulphate and dolomite);
• Kurortny Boulevard;
• The main Narzan baths.

Return to Pyatigorsk ~ at 18:00.

Departure home.

Additional costs:

• entrance to the territory of Honey waterfalls — 300 rubles.;
• lunch, if the meal plan is selected / all meals, if the meal plan is selected without meals.

Option II

Breakfast at the hotel (if a meal plan is selected).

Check-out from the hotel before the tour.

City of CMS tour ~ at 09:00.

In Pyatigorsk, a visit to Lake Failure, the place of the duel of M.Y. Lermontov.

A walk through the resort park in Zheleznovodsk:

• the former summer residence of the Emir of Bukhara (sanatorium named afterTelman);
• Pushkin Gallery;
• monument to Alexander Pushkin;
• Slavyanov source;
• The Smirnov source;
• Cascading stairs.

A walk through the Lower Resort Park in Kislovodsk:

• bridge "Ladies' caprice";
• Mirror pond and Glass jet;
• monument to Alexander Pushkin;
• Flowerbed Calendar;
• The Lermontov site;
• bust of M.Y. Lermontov;
• Main Narzan Gallery;
• The colonnade.

Lunch on the route for an additional fee (cafe or canteen).

In Yessentuki, there is a stop at the Theater Square, pump rooms of the sources of Yessentuki No. 4 and Yessentuki No. 17, a mud clinic named after Semashko.

Return to Pyatigorsk ~ at 18:00.

Departure home.

Additional costs:

• lunch, if the meal plan is selected / all meals, if the meal plan is selected without meals.