Altai

Altai is a wonderful place. Want to find out three reasons why there worth a visit? In - the first, I myself was there, checked everything personally and solemnly ready to confirm that the nature of the beautiful and the people-are excellent. In - Second, the Altai is included in the UNESCO World Heritage List, where anyone anyhow and through connections not included. And - third, the Altai is. likes to relax by our Prime - Minister, and only he will agree, the choice is very wide. Clarify with the Prime - Minister of the reason for his love of the Altai we failed for purely technical reasons, so you'll have to settle for only my impressions. I spent 10 days in the Altai, which can be divided into two parts. First I got to Green Island, an amazing place, located in the tract Ustyuba on turquoise Katun River. By the way, turquoise Katun called not just to be witty. Water in it really is just fantastic, like a shimmering molten glass. And in the spring, when melting glaciers have not yet cleared after hibernation, Katun green - blue, summer and fall and surprise, a thick turquoise and completely opaque. At Green Island people from all over Russia and even from around the world are going to get in touch with the grandeur and power of primordial nature. Yes, it sounds outrageous unscientific, but even I, a stern materialist is forced to confirm: the place of strong, wild, beautiful and memorable. The island has no cottages with a warm shower and renovated. All the guests live in the present Altay ailah that built of thick cedar bark "boss" of the island Eugene. Here, in general, all made out of what nature gave, tables and benches made of huge cedar trees, paths, from river boulders, fences, made of branches and twigs that glaciers and Katun twisted into fantastic knots. Eugene for a long time doubted whether all the electricity on the island, but all - have decided that you need. So that the bulb Ilyich and very comfortable bath (from the steam room, right in the Katun!) Is perhaps the only traces of civilization on Green Island. Here you can even get just peshochkom-two suspension bridges. So that the car will have to leave the parking lot, located quite far from the ails. But within an hour you will understand why all wanting to get to Green Island at times stretched into weeks. Taiga, river and air wash trash and bustle of the city almost immediately. It is necessary to meet once a striking sunrise on the banks of the Katun, or kindle a fire of cedar logs, and you'll understand how you do not want to leave here and how you want to return. But I pulled myself together and all - still left the Green Island. Solely for their own health. Because most come to Altai not only to admire the taiga, but by and stock up for the year ahead, and for the strength and health to travel to maral nurseries. Generally - the end point of my trip correctly called recreation Nikolsky, but since there is breeding red deer, the mean-maral nurseries, and all here. Deer is a subspecies of red deer, handsome men, incidentally. But most importantly, they have antlers. Yep, the very young horn legends and myths that we buy tons of Koreans and Chinese for their miracle drugs. But it seems that - something in Punta really is, once they literally chase a couple of months to half a meter in length! Can you imagine what it silischa laid down by nature? The main source of improvement in the antlers maral nurseries, baths, a thick broth made from antlers, which is cooked right in front of you, without any deception. Immerse in a bath his emaciated body of civilization (by the way, more than a dozen bathrooms can take rebel-heart) and get at least a year powerfully strengthened immune system and the normalization of all your organs. Check for yourself-August 40 - degree heat and I could barely noticed. In addition to antler baths recommend medicinal teas from the local rich herbs, fitovanny the same herbs, massage, salves, both alcoholic and without (with alcohol in the Altai, by the way, do not laugh-antlers themselves well stimulate), as well as hiking and horseback riding, skiing in winter, and of air, which may seem to be cut with a knife and a spoon. Yes, what about food, then it is absolutely natural and - very tasty. Deer meat, milk, freshest, with a neighboring farm, the legendary Altai slow to master the apiary. Plus quite European service and comfort. And I have not said a word about local hunting and fishing! So the Altai have to go, guys. Watch it all-not to renegotiate, to try, do not try, and in Turkey and Spain always have time to where they disappear?