Honey waterfalls
Description:
The tour takes place in a passenger car. Right now it's Chevrolet Lacetti. Number of people - up to 4 people. Perhaps with a child, but it is necessary to warn in advance and there will be a surcharge for a car seat - 200p.
“Honey Waterfalls” is a complex of waterfalls located in the Karachay-Cherkess Republic, about an hour from Kislovodsk. The group "Honey Waterfalls" is formed by 5 waterfalls, of which 3 (Pearl, Hidden and Noisy, or Devil's Mill) are located on the Alikonovka River, a deep canyon cutting through the Rocky Range of the North Caucasus, and 2 (Big and Small Honey) - on the Echki-Bash River (Goat's Head), falling into Alikonovka from a height of 18 m. The highest of the whole group is the Great Honey Falls (18 m), and the most powerful is Pearl. We will be able to see 4 out of 5 waterfalls during the excursion.
Entrance to the tourist complex "Honey Waterfalls" is paid, the price is 60p. per person. It is also known as “environmental collection”.
On the territory of the natural-recreational complex there are a tourist base, a restaurant and a cafe of national cuisine, an ethnographic museum "Karachayevsky farmstead". In the woven pens you can see the animals that live in this area: horses, sheep of the Karachay breed, a donkey, a mountain sheep and rabbits. Animal feed is sold. The cost is 50 rubles. Children should especially enjoy hand-feeding.
More recently, on the way to the "Honey Waterfalls" opened a small private zoo with a bear, camel, pony and even deer. The kids should like it, too.
On the way back, we stop at the Tea House, where you can taste mountain herbal tea and a huge selection of jam for free. For example, have you ever tried pine cone jam? And for example, exotic jam from mushrooms or even more exotic jam from garlic! A total of about 60 types of jam to choose from. The tasting is free. A small jar of any jam costs 150p, a large jar - 350p. In addition to jam in the "Tea House" a large selection of herbal teas and fees, honey and local sweets. There are also horse rentals and small horse rides (30 minutes) near the Tea House. It's worth a stop.
On the way back, you can drive to the Ring Mountain - a natural monument, a rock formation on the outskirts of Kislovodsk. By the way, the "Ring-mountain" is the cheapest market of woollen products in the Caucasian Mineral Waters. Wool socks for the price of chocolate bars. Easy. For 50p, you can buy a pair of wool socks. There is a large selection of wool and souvenirs. Buy gifts to family and friends at the lowest price, you can here.
On February 2, 2019, the longest zip line in Russia officially opened at Honey Falls. The length of the rope descent is 1050m, speed up to 60 km / h, and the height is comparable to the height of a 33-storey house! During the tour "Honey waterfalls" those who wish can ride on the zip line. The cost is 1100p.
The cost of the excursion from:
- Kislovodsk - 4500r. (3 hours);
- Essentukov - 5500r. (4 hours);
- Pyatigorsk - 6500r. (5 hours);
- Zheleznovodsk - 6500 p. (5 hours);
- Inozemtsevo - 7000r. (5 - 6 hours);
- Mineral Waters - 7500p (6 hours).