The Caucasus for two New Year's days: Upper Balkaria and the CMS region

The Upper Balkaria tour starts at 06:50.

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.

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 (for an additional fee).

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.

Cherek Gorge is a stop on 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 (for an additional fee).

Return to the hotel ~ at 19:00-19:30.

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

Additional costs:

• entrance to the territory of the thermal spring — 600 rubles.
• meals on the route: breakfast, lunch, if the fare with meals is selected / all meals, if the fare without meals is selected.

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.;
• meals on the route (lunch), if the fare with meals / all meals is selected, if the fare without meals is selected.

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:

• meals on the route (lunch), if the fare with meals / all meals is selected, if the fare without meals is selected.