Red caves and falls

In 4 km to the east with. perevalnoe (journey on a line Simferopol – Alushta, a stop "Stadium") in spurs Dolgorukovsky jajly still is from afar allocated with reddish steep walls gorge with falls in the center and grottoes gaping around.

On the way to caves recently there was a new tourist object – the training field first in the country for a golf.

Thrown still recently koshary have changed. In them saddle horses contain. There is nearby a big apiary, are constructed and various cafes, cottages, saunas and other institutions for tourists proceed to be under construction.

Thus it is pleasant to notice that in reserved gorge the Cornel-koba the natural beauty is broken by nothing. The firm which rents Red caves is created by professionals of tourist business and experts on the nature. All is arranged reasonably, safely. Are arranged musorosborniki, there are toilets, the vacation spots, the arranged well springs. It is necessary to pay only for excursion in caves, and walk on gorge – is popular and free.

From Red caves numerous springs all year long stream and even the whole underground river which being beaten out on a surface forms on an extent about kilometre some falls and cascades. In a Soviet period the river named the Cornel-koba or Kizilkobinka, but now falls have very much entered into a fashion Sou-uch-khan natural boundaries in the bottom part of gorge.

Together water streams from three gorges – from the Cornel-koby, Alyoshin's gorges water and beams Jankoj Here merge. Water cascades of the Sou-uch-khan were chosen for bathing all year long by Porfirija Ivanov's followers, and then and other adherents of a healthy way of life and adherents of various spiritual doctrines.

Now and conductors of Red caves name the underground river of the Sou-uch-khan though in the literature of regional studies pre-revolutionary and a Soviet period the river always was called simply the Cornel-koba.

The Threshold of caves – the Tuff platform is formed by the dissolved limestone taken out from them. In grottoes more three thousand years ago there lived people so-called a culture cornel-kobinskoj. And in the cave (the input in it hardly above) was an altar. Six circles of Red caves have the general extent over 17 km, it is the greatest in the CIS a cave in limestones. It is equipped for visiting, and, in diving suits and with aqualungs it is possible to overcome the siphons flooded with water and to admire protogenic beauty of distant halls.

On Dolgorukovsky jajle tens more interesting caves, for example, a cave altar of Eni-sala-2. And among mountain tourists parking Kolan-bair is popular. Here, in picturesque cosy beams at the time of war there was a guerrilla base. In memory of heroes nasypan the Glory Hill at which memorable actions and tourist meetings are carried out.

Igor Rusanov