Zakin gorge
it is located on the northern slope of the Caucasus.
Description:
Zakinsky gorge, located on the northern slope of the Caucasus, is one of the most popular in Russia among fans of mountain tourism.
Once through the gorge passed passways in the direction of South and North Ossetia, and now there is a Transcaucasian highway. Not far from the river Zakado is the village of Nar, where three gorges converge at once, of which Zakinskoye is the main and most picturesque.
Passing the gorge in the village of Nar, consisting of several mountain villages, you can visit the house-museum of the poet Kosta Livanovich Khitagurov, who is the founder of Ossetian fiction, as well as go to the Zrug Gorge and visit the fresco-painted temple "Hozita Mayran" and one of the seven unique sources in the world for the extraction of minerals of several types at once.