A trip to the Altai Mountains will more than replace a vacation abroad. So many impressions in a short time you will not give even the Swiss Alps . Although - the taste and color, as they say ... But let's talk about Altai - the pearl of Siberia.
Unique in its magnificence and quantity of natural beauty, the Altai Mountains amaze with its power, some special energy, color, greatness. Snowy mountain peaks, ocean of coniferous taiga, stormy mountain rivers, huge meadows with edelweiss, rumbling waterfalls are all Altai. If you are attracted by such a picture and the prospect of an unforgettable holiday, then you probably already wondered where exactly it is possible to go savage to the Altai Mountains. About this and talk.
Mountain Altai - where to go?
Chuysky tract (behind the Seminsky pass). If you think where to go by car in the Altai Mountains, you can advise to go to Biysk. The section from Biysk to Tashantha is called the Chuysk tract. This track is one of the most beautiful roads in the world. On the right bank of the Katun from the village of Souza to the village of Chemal there is the so-called resort zone of Altai. There are many tourist centers, hotels and campsites. While staying here, do not change to visit the local sights: Mount Babyrgan (the northern outpost of the Altai Mountains), the village of the Svoboda Valley, behind which stands the arch symbolizing the beginning of the Altai Republic, Maima village, where the first stone temple of Altai, Lake Aya, snuggles comfortably in the hollow between green mountains, in its middle there is a tiny island with a gazebo of love.
Moving further, you will see the village of Manzherok and Manzherok lake, the source of Arzhan-Suu, Tavdin caves, Karakol lakes. In the city of Biysk there is a museum of the Chuysk tract, in which documents and photographs of the times of the construction of the tract are exhibited, a unique volumetric layout of the road, as well as various pictures and diagrams.
Chemal - the so-called tourist Mecca of the Altai Territory. It's easy to get here, so there's always enough tourists here. Attracts their unique climate, amazing beauty of nature, developed infrastructure. So, if you do not know where to go to the Altai Mountains with children, you can start from this village. In English it means an anthill. Earlier in winter, people and animals flocked here, to the valley, to hide from the cold, so that the place was as animated as an anthill. Cheml is located between the two rivers - Katun and Chemal and is surrounded by mountain ranges with the tops of Krestova and Camel. Thanks to this location, the valley of Chemal boasts a unique climate, which differs in many respects from the climate of the rest of the Altai Mountains.
Plateau Ukok is another amazing place. The mountains are drowned in the clouds, and the clouds themselves often resemble the shape of a step. Every now and then it seems that someone is about to descend from heaven. On the Plateau is just a lot of beautiful and mysterious places. This is Bertek pisanitsa on the cliff of Kyzyl-Tas, and the slope of Molybdenum with galleries, and radon sources, in which they take medicinal baths and local residents and tourists.
Uchar (Chulyshman Valley) is an indispensable place to go when resting in the Altai Mountains. This waterfall in 2012 was included in the list of TOP-5 most mysterious and inaccessible sights of Russia. It is located on the territory of the Altai State Natural Preserve, which is under the protection of UNESCO. Another name for the waterfall is the Chulchi cascade. Its height reaches 160 meters. It's a spectacle that is simply incomprehensible, and the noise from the falling water is such that you need to shout, so that a standing interlocutor will hear you nearby.