Caucasus - Black Sea coast

But the Eastern Caucasus is usually left outside attention of tourists. Meanwhile, the area with its treeless, sun-scorched planes, overgrown with wild forest deep canyons, black, are composed of shale or haired snow peaks, the area populated by distinct peoples of different language groups that have retained some features of ancient culture, is extremely interesting for tourists. Mountainous villages in Dagestan, and Tusheti Khevsurs-Democracy situated high on the slopes above the forest, amid the chaos of mountain ranges. Crowded houses are built on top of each other so that the flat roof of the lower court is for the top. Located on opposite slopes of the gorges of the village connected to each other just a thin ribbon bridge, re-cast at a height of several tens of meters above the rapids of mountain rivers, roaring at the bottom of the abyss. Resting in the blue sky, towering menacingly over auls monumental tower - mute witnesses of the past. Khevsureti located in the western part of the Eastern Caucasus and occupies the highlands between the Grozny area to the north and the Georgian Military Highway to the west and south, forming the northern outskirts of the Georgian SSR. Main Caucasian ridge divides Hevsu-retiyu into two parts - north and south. North is located in the upper reaches of Assa and Argun, and south - in the pool Hevsurskoy Aragvi. North Khevsureti bounded on the east, snow, or Pirikitelskim, ridge, over which stands a series of sharp peaks, blindingly radiant with eternal snows.

On the Limits of the Lada

Famous Zhigulevskie mountains, Lada, located 60 km from the Kuibyshev, up the Volga, constitute the northern part of the Samara Bend. Volga, aspiring to the south, encountering along the way a strong ridge of limestone, turns east and go around it, continues on his way to the south. Bending (bend), which forms here the Volga, was named Samara Luka. Most often Samara Luka do not mean a bend of the Volga, and the terrain, like the peninsula, it concluded. The length of the bows - about 100 km, width - about 30 km. Zhigulevskie mountains - a wonderful corner of our country's most picturesque place on the Volga, which is of great scientific value. Here, an extraordinary variety of terrain, rocks, soil, flora and fauna. Lada pulled a solid chain. They are covered with forest. On the tops and slopes - rocky forbidding cliffs, and gray stones of bizarre forms and shapes, many ridges, smooth convex stone 'foreheads, covered with moss and lichen. Early in the morning you can watch spectacular. Distant mountains are not visible: they tightened a thick blanket of fog. The sun rises higher, the fog gradually dissipated, and wraps just thins the base of the mountains. A top, completely cleansed from the fog, drenched in sunshine, as if floating in the air. By noon, the fog remains only in deep canyons. "Earthly steam" the locals call it. If you look at the bottom Lada, from the Volga, they have the form of this mountainous country. But when you look at the neighborhood from the tops of the mountains becomes immediately clear that this is a continuous ridge, smooth plateau, dissected by gullies, which cut off a steep ledge over the Volga River in its northern part and gradually decreases to the south.

In paramonovskom ravine

And here we are in Paramonovskom ravine. It struck us that went many places in the Moscow region, its beauty, its endless distances of; here grandiose glacier plow plowed a huge hollow, leaving about a souvenir placer granitic moraines. His greatness, too, obliges. No, not the number of kilometers traveled will be proud of the trip participants, not for a romantic overnight stay in tents, we came into this "wilderness", and ashes of fires, we note our way! We have begun a campaign of "trefoil", a place where three rivers merge - Iksha, Volgusha and Yakhroma. Here is the first object - cognitive, and we can not just watch the rare geographical phenomenon, standing there a minute or two. The Plan does not provide for a narrow problem a detailed study of the rivers with the plotting, but to determine their speed in different sections, to take water samples for further analysis at the school - is not geography in practice or not to have the practice of the future hydrology and geology? The fastest of the three rivers, the most turbulent and alluring - Volgusha. Her overgrown shore and went against the flow tourists. Soon loop trails broke off: apparently rotted support bridges, and a raging torrent after a long rain scattered the logs, stuck among the trees near the water, washed clean handrails. "Yes, here it is not just repairing smell - thought each. - Well, it's more fun! "Work enough - and have to drive into the bottom of Coke, and shore support to align.