Main attraction Highlands - Kizil-Koba, or red cave. A story about them and we start dating with Dolgorukovskaya yayloy.
In our country we know of at least 5 thousand caves, of which about 800 are in the Crimea. In the USSR, among the caves formed in limestone, the first place is by the length of the Kizil-Koba.
Caves are not only a great scientist, but also practical interest. They are such important economic problems such as water settlements, the creation of hydraulic structures (dams, tunnels, reservoirs), civil and industrial construction, development of rural areas, the exploitation of mineral deposits, etc.
Kizilkobinskoe tract is located in the upper Salgir, the largest of the Crimean rivers. The left side of the valley is hard limit, covered with dense forest spurs Chater-Dag (800-1500 m above sea level), right, flatter - and plateau spurs Dolgorukovskaya Demerdzhi-plateau (700-1300 m). Such is the geographical situation near the tract. The exact location of it - Dolgorukovskaya slope plateau. For the garden and the remains of moribund small village of Kizil-Koba - a narrow, wooded valley, along the bottom of which flows turbulent mountain river Su-Uchhan ("falling water"), it is Kizilkobinka or Krasnopeschernaya. Good old beaten path leads to a small closed valley, parts of which are in a dead-end area of tuffs and picturesque waterfall. Around the limestone cliffs, colored by iron oxides in reddish-brown, sometimes pink. Hence the name of the cliffs - Kizil-Kaya, which means in translation "red rock", the same color feature based on place-Kizil-Koba - "Red Cave". The slopes of ravines and rocks are surrounded by green trees and bushes, which rise to the top edge of the plateau Dolgorukovsky.
amazing gorge! Rich moisture and well heated by the sun, it is reliably protected by mountains from cold northerly winds.
Here grow oak, field maple, hornbeam, willow, pear loholistnaya and pine, willow, hazel, svidina, wild rose, thistle, barberry and other trees and shrubs. In the spring starts early dust hazel, dogwood blossom, snowdrops, primroses, bluebell, crocus, violets, lilies, adonis, bright red elegant peonies. In contrast to the adjacent rocky slopes plateau, which will soon burn out under the scorching sun, the valley green grass cover remains until late fall.
Rich in wildlife and canyons. Martens, hares, squirrels, hedgehogs, lizards, cuckoos, swallows, crows, magpies, flycatchers, thrushes, nightingales, tits ... Of insects are often found a variety of butterflies, beetles, grass bugs, wasps, bees, ants, etc. a few decades ago, in the 20's and 40's, the Red caves were frequent colony of bats - the ordinary dlinnokryla, listed now in the Red Book of USSR. Now in the Crimea, these animals do not know what a significant role played by anxiety on the part of tourists. For the same reason it is very rare and other species of bats - two-color Kozhan.
Recent studies have established that during the Stone Age in Kizilkobinskom tract and its environs had lived cave bears, deer, antelope, wild sheep, wild cats, foxes and hares. Nests on cliffs Alpine daw.
in the upper valley, where marble-like limestone Kizil-Kaya form a huge natural polutsirk, is dominated by tuffs mentioned site. On a clear day here in the south-west a picturesque view. Below - wooded valley, which flows along the bottom of the Su-Uchhan, more fertile valley of the upper Salgir. On the horizon looms a string of major peaks of a mountain range - from Pahkal-Kai on the south-east to Chater-Dag mountains in the south and Taz-Tau in the south-west. Right and left during the ascent to the platform among the bushes at low exposures travertine noticeable holes small caves and grottos, which are viewed badly damaged "tourists" sinter. In the back of the tuff areas where it is limited by a grove of large trees, from under the boulders of Nabal, breaking into the light, cold rage, clear mountain river sources. Among them are highlights rising springs - Griffins.
Breaking from the pitch darkness of the underworld, the river, skirting boulders, rushes to the edge of the site from which overturned and the 25-meter waterfall Su-Uchhan.
tuff playground - the magnificent monument to the underground river. For millennia the river, bringing from the depths of the dissolved bicarbonate Dolgorukovsky array of calcium, has deferred his entrance in the form of light travertine.
Over the river and blocky in bulk in the cliffs of rocks hidden black eye socket three caves entrances.