Red Cave - not only the biggest and most interesting, but, without doubt, the most popular and most visited cave of the Crimea. Trolley buses Simferopol - Alushta and Perevalnoe - Simferopol, 30-40 minutes will take you to a stop "Stadion" in the village Perevalnoye. Hence, on the east leaves the now an asphalt road, iduschayaya by private farms in the direction of Dolgorukovsky array. After 3 km it comes to the mountains and deep into the gorge of the river Krasnopeschernoy. It was here, under the tall poplars and mountain base is located - hotel Kizil-Koba, where you can stop. The gorge is putting up tents and overnight is prohibited: in fact the natural boundary of the Kizil-koba - is a natural monument of national importance!
The road to the Red River crosses the double cave, and slowly climbs the hill. Reddish-brown cliffs, closing the gorge, climb higher and higher. at their background among the lush greenery of oak, oriental hornbeam, dogwood, barberry, hazelnut yellow like the attached unknown architect ledge - tuff ground. With its edge breaks 25-meter waterfall, as well as Kurshunlu waterfall especially effective at high water, low water and turning into a thin trickle of silver. Hard to believe that the site was the result of karst springs, which provide an array of depth Dolgorukovsky dissolved calcium bicarbonate and deposited it on the surface in the form of light, porous travertine.
with tuff deck offers a magnificent panorama of the central part of the Main Ridge - from the top of Pahkal-Kaya, or bald, Ivan served as Crimean partisans during World War II observation post on south to the plateau scarps Chater-Dag and naked pyramids Taz-Tau in the north-west. If you look closely, it turns out that tuff area stores in its context and historical panorama of events. Unfortunately, its upper levels - is evidence of our lack of respect for nature and each other ... Sources here and there fountains running out of tufa, in Soviet times was littered with cans, in the meadows was a "mosaic" of broken glass, trees and shrubs bore traces of the barbaric felling. Now all fixed thanks to the efforts of private traders have organized sightseeing tours here.
If you dig deeper (and by this are only entitled to the archaeologists!), it turns out that in the Middle Ages, as well as of late time, there lived a man. Tuff at the site in 3-4 centuries BC settled estate, consisting of several carved into the tuff rooms. Finds a thin-walled kitchen and expensive glassware and krasnolakovoy show its wealth of owners. What are they doing? what attracted them to the gorge? Archaeologists believe that the estate owner, richer than what his countrymen, was engaged here in wine growing and wine dressing for sale. That he belonged to the previously described stock of wine amphorae in a room in the cave.
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