Elbrus and the CMS region. Weekend Tour

The Elbrus tour starts at 06:00.

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 07:00-08:00 at a roadside cafe — khichiny, coffee, herbal tea.

Stop (~ 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 raised to a height of 3,100 meters above sea level.

Stop (~ 3 hours) at Azau glade, the southern foot of Mount Elbrus. Climbing on 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 at the Azau after the descent from the cable cars ~ at 14:00. National Balkarian cuisine: shurpa, lagman, kebabs, trout, manti, khichins.

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 18:30-19:30.

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

Additional expenses:

• Cable cars: Elbrus — stations "Stary Krugozor" height 3000 m.above sea level, "Mir" height 3500 m.above sea level, "Gara Bashi" height 3800 m. above sea level (3 levels are paid at once). - 3,200 rubles; Cheget — 1,100 rubles.;
• national park — 200 rubles.;
• Meals: breakfast and lunch on the route + dinner if the fare is without meals.

It is necessary to choose a tour when booking.

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.

Mount Koltso is one of the Lermontov sites in Kislovodsk.

Tea house (free tasting of herbal tea and many types of jam. There is an opportunity 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: the bridge "Ladies' Caprice", a mirrored pond with a Glass jet, a flower bed calendar, a monument to Alexander Pushkin, Lermontov playground with a monument to Mikhail Lermontov.

We will also see the Main Narzan Gallery with three narzans (common, sulfate and dolomite), Kurortny Boulevard, and the Main Narzan baths.

Return to Pyatigorsk ~ at 18:00.

Departure home.

Additional expenses:

• entrance to the territory of Honey waterfalls — 300 rubles.;
• Meals: breakfast if the fare is without meals, lunch on the route.

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.

In Zheleznovodsk, a walk through the resort park: the former summer residence of the Emir of Bukhara (sanatorium named after Telman), Pushkin Gallery, monument to Alexander Pushkin, Slavyanovsky spring, Smirnovsky spring, Cascade staircase.

In Kislovodsk, a walk through the Nizhny Kurortny Park: the bridge "Ladies' Caprice", the Mirror Pond and the Glass Jet, the monument to Alexander Pushkin, the flower bed Calendar, the Lermontov playground, the bust of Mikhail Lermontov, the 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 expenses:

• Meals: breakfast if the fare is without meals, lunch on the route.