Grotto near the monk cave
All charming object.
Monks Waterfall and the Cave Monk are one of the most beautiful and simply transmitted places in the vicinity of the village of Mesmai and Guamka. For the most part, this is due to their remoteness from settlements. They are on the southern slope of the Guam Ridge, orographically, on the right side of the Gum Gorge. The monk of the cave is located in one of the many grots, which cozy are located in the rocky ridge. The scale of them, of course, is impressive.
A good guideline for finding a cave is a stream that flows out of its entrance. Under one of the grots, water flows from the cave, form a small creek with crystal clear water and then in narrow horod, water is striving for the monks of the waterfall.
Between the cave and the waterfall, there is quite a large, almost, perfectly smooth horizontal platform, which is limited on one side with high scaling formations, and with another steep cliff in the Gum's Gorge. A sort of natural balcony where you can accommodate not one dozen tourist groups.
Monks Waterfall Monks Waterfall also deserves separate attention. Its height is about 15 m and it is formed just from the stream, which flows out of the cave.
Monks Waterfall To see the waterfall in full, you need to go down a bit down the path leading from the cave in the Gum Gorge. It is worth noting that the trail site in this place is very cool and therefore it is necessary to be extremely attentive and not forget about the safety technique when moving.
numerous fonts in the monks Getting acquainted with the beauty of these amazing places in full in our event
Moved from Hajoha in the lump - this is already Krasnodar region.
Ratch out from Hajoha in Luamku:
At first, I wanted to go to the lighter from Hajoha walk through the forest roads, but examining the road in the direction of the Guamki, I realized that with a complete backpack ~ 30kg for 1 day there would not come there. And spend on this transition 2 days somehow Vlm. In addition, as it turned out, the track from Hajoha in the Gumku, which I went out somewhere in the internet, turned out to be unreal - passes through a break.
To go through this area directly, without entering the mesmai, of course, it is possible - either through the monks of the cave, descending there in the Gum's Gorge (hereinafter, you can even get to the train to Lamka)), or through the mountain of the North Guam - on the "Tropez", which is quite Approximately marked at the General Staffing Maps on the SMZ from the musical grotto - to go there, and there it is even enough to light enough, and I have no time to look for other trails in place, no desire. Perhaps from the glade of Fishkalkin there is a normal path to the lump.
In general, if you count on a 2-day transition from Hajoha to the Gumku, I would have passed on the "trail" on the SOZ from the musical grotto or west from the Poland of Fishkalkin (with extreme caution on the descent from the mountain North Guam) - just ~ 30-35km ( See Track). Now, knowing the road, I think that it would be possible to run for 1 day with a backpack no more than 25kg, but in September I will get to the lump and settling there, most likely, would not have time ...
I just took and went on the bus to Maykop, there - on bus 28 and 29 you can get to the bus station. It was more difficult to get to Absheronsk - the buses were walking at 12:30 pm and 16:40 only in Mon, Fri, Sat, Sun - I was there on Wednesday. I could not recognize anything about the minibuses (can there be them to Apsheronsk and really not?). Transit buses walked too late. I had to go on a taxi for 800r, so that I would have to go on a bus from Absheronsk to Luamku (for 1300r they were offered at once - from Absheronsk to Lamka - it would have been necessary to agree, would save 2-2.5 hours for 400r, and would reach comfortable). In Apsheronsk, she passed the baggage for 50 rubles and 1.5 hours wandered near the station. Minibuses from Absheronsk to the Gumku go at 8:00, 12:00 and mine at 15:00. There was a bus on the basis of KamAZ to Mesma at 14: ??, but it's not to get on it in the lump. Minibus approached K. bus stop Near the bus station, it was already a queue. Somehow in her (65r) and after 1.5 hours, by 16:00, was in the gum. Big group, From 4 people, it is not worth counting on the minibuses - local priority, it is assumed that tourists have money, and they go to a taxi that, in general, truth). By 17:30 settled in the private sector. It remained 1.5 hours before the dark - I decided to go to the musical grotto.
1. Musical grotto + 2. Monk Cave \u003d 1 running day
On the very moment, Mesmai in the south is relative to the lump 
1. Musical grotto.
The trail to the musical throat begins from the tourist glade behind the bridge from the hotel "Guamka".
1. On the way you can stockpenter. I understand it - hence the groundwater in the pipe comes in the lump, but a small rod left for the forest and travelers. 
2. Forest trail, almost the road, soft, wide and markers are visible. 
Around the lump of a pile of rocks for climbing, paths are driven to them. Sometimes you go on such a labeled path and get drunk in the wall. For one of these trail, I turned on the fork.
4. But the walls are also beautiful - "hole". 
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I had to return to the first fork on Kurumnik - there found the necessary path (see Track).
6. Released to the throat, already darkens. 
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9. Inside the grotto on the wall, a white ledge. 
10. At closer examination, the crystal structure of the protrusion is noticeable. Of course, someone already broke out a decent piece of memory. 
11. In the grotto you can meet the sunset. Back, to the bridge near the hotel "Guamka", to go no more than 2.5 km along the short path or 2km to the track and on it more than 1.5km to the center of the Lamka. 
A walk to the musical throat is best combined with a radial to a monk cave.
2. Monk Cave.
Rose at 9:00, came out at 10:30. At first, I went on the R. Matuzka, which went before this (described in) - I wanted to watch the left influx, and the plot from the waterfall to the hell-bridge in the west of the southern outskirts of the lump. The left lock is dry, the shores of stones and dirt, the trails are not. On the plot from the waterfall before the ad-bridge, there is nothing particularly interesting, but the trail is more or less. This site can be finished or start a radial in the matus, especially if you do not want to return the same way and getting off the ridge through a through cave.
- Hell Bridge. Little trouts live in a small break in front of him. 
From the hell-bridge across R. Matuka passed to the bridge across R. Kardzhips - to the tourist glade. From the Polyana along the trail along the Kurdzhips PB upstream. I thought that there could climb the mountain of the North Guam (I had a track from Ineta, who was going on there).
1. Long closed upwards, and, in the end, DzEZ to a small cave. 
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4. After a stridden clearing, before descending to the cave, a small parking lot is noticed. 
5. Near the monk cave big parking. 
6. The cave itself is small, reminds, rather, the grotto, but it follows the stream, so that still the cave. 
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8. Creek from the cave depth. Lases are too narrow - I do not think that someone seized there. 
9. Strange red, as it would be rusty stones in a stream. 
10. The cave has a lower level, in fact, just the grotto. It is dangerous to descend on this log, and it itself, and the steps, nailed to it, are easily turning, but this is the only input-output available without specials. With the simplest insurance, you can easily go down and get out back, from there open a good view of the Gum's Gorge (the trees of the photo do not interfere). I climbed there on another day, but then I had no digital with him. 
11. The stream arising from the cave is almost immediately turning into a waterfall. 
12. View of the Gum's Gorge from the cave. In Wikimapia, there is an observation just 250 m west of the cave, but I did not go there. 
I did not find the descent on that day (on top of the presence at the bottom of the trails are not obvious), I had to return back almost the same way. But the return road to the Guamka turned out to be much simpler - the right track from the Lady to the cave is the one who passes through the entire prichoadichene Polyana and the descent with the city of Asever Guam east of what I rose.
13. Thickets of rose hips on a prichadichetic glade. 
14. On the southern tip of the prichadigi glade, an equipped parking lot is a view from the parking lot on the glade. 
There are 2 approaches from Luamka, and both are easy to combine with a visit to the musical grotto:
1. To go through or travel by train on the Gum's Gorge to the cafe "Cosmonaut Dom". You can not always go through, during excursions on the train pass to the gorge forbidden (the gate is closed) you need to learn the schedule of excursions. If you did not have time to go to the gorge before the start of excursions, you can take a ticket one way). Slightly above the cafe, you can go to Kurdjips VJrod, then on PB you need to go down to the level of the cafe (go to the main stream of the cave) and there look for the path up. Then there will be a brother of the right side of the primary stream and then up. On the development of "Decity Levo Top" take the left. It remains quite a bit, but at the very end will have to apply the technique of free laza. The main thing is not to cross in the course of the movement of the main stream - the correct trail on the PB of the main stream.
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You can climb along the LB of the main stream, there is much more beautiful, the real fairy tale, I very much regretted that I didn't take the digital with him. But at the same time, at the very end still will have to move to PB. That's just where I had to cross the stream, it was easy to slip and then, at best, fractures. Perhaps there is a normal passage from the LB on the PB at the level of the "Wear left left" or even lower, but did not check.
In any case, the rope for insurance is better to take with you. At least in order to go down the log in the grotto under the cave.
From the cave through the prichadichene Polyana, we go to the descent with the city of Asever GUAM (using the East Track). From the descent past a small parking "The Total" we go on the path to the musical grotto. On it, by the spring, we go to the throat. From the grotto you can go back to the gum on the tourist glade. Or make a hook and go to the track in front of the gum northern trailAlthough there is nothing interesting.
2. The same as in Embodiment 1., But without the Gum Gill and Trails from the cafe "Cosmonaut's House", because This trail is quite complex and maybe even dangerous. Compared to it, rise to Asever-Gum and the descent from it is much easier.
Those. From the tourist glade along the path towards the musical grotto, a little no reaching the spring, to turn the right (south) and, passing through the "Total" points, "lifting", "path", and "descent", go to the road to a monk cave. From the monk cave as well as in Embodiment 1.
If there is time, you can search a more convenient path in Asever-Gum. Most likely, maybe in the area of \u200b\u200bthe dots "Shave", "Rift", "?? Rising ??", "Road".
You can still climb into the "Cave", which is described at the beginning (pictures 1,2,3).
- Track (corrected and supplemented) - Guamka - R. Matuza (from the bridge to the 1st VDP) - Musical Grotto - Monk of the Cave - Gum's Gorge (to the bridge before Mesmar)
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The Lago-Naki plateau is many not only very beautiful, but also mysterious places surrounded by centuries-old secrets. To one of them, it is quite possible to attribute the monakov cave and a waterfall located in.
Description, features
The cave as if covered with a majestic grotto, and there are few people deep into it. They say there is practically no oxygen. At the same time, going to the cave, the inspection of its surroundings, a beautiful waterfall - delivers a lot of brightest impressions.
Particular attention should be paid to the parking lot over the waterfall and under the cave. It opens an unforgettable look with it, and water flowing across the stone cascades, as if soothes, fascinates. Makes forget about everything in the world.
The waterfall originates from the cave, from a small stream forming a lake, and aqueous fifteen meter cascade appeared. To be more accurate, then the stream starts not in the cave itself, but in the grotto in front of it. Sign in the middle of the cave room is quite difficult. There are practically no oxygen, but at the same time it is believed that in antiquity there were inhabited by monks, in honor of which the cave and the waterfall received their name.
In its own way, a beautiful and attractive place to which more tourists come out every year. If you have already visited these parts, share your impressions with us, leaving a comment.
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Accurate place on the map, GPS coordinates: 44 ° 12'56.2 "N 39 ° 55'03.9" E
Accommodation for rent in these parts
Kamennikova
Dakhovskaya
Hamushki
Guseeripl
My wife and I lived on (excellent turbase with delicious breakfasts)
Monk is a cave and a waterfall - places not just beautiful. They have a stunning energy. Emotions are simply excavated here. But I still recommend getting acquainted with other caves of Adygea, for example, with. And after visiting these amazing places, be sure to return to the blog and share your impressions.
This is one of the longest excursions that we offer. The beginning of the hike should be planned at the very beginning of the day, about eight in the morning, but not later than ten, because The day will be a rich multitude of bright impressions. We recommend taking with me cameras, phones and cameras, so that you can capture everything that you will see and save it for a long memory.
The main goal of our excursion is an unusual and very beautiful cave, which from time immemorial named "Monkova". Like most names of others geographic objects Local importance of the origins of the name are not known. And as always, there are only various assumptions and guesses, sometimes the most unusual and wonderful.
So one of the legends says that it was here, near this cave, in ancient times, one monk lived in ancient times, whose name was no longer preserved in memory or in legends.
It is known for healing people from various ailments and diseases.
And now I would like to tell a little about the cave itself. On the right side and wall of the Kurdzhipa Canyon, somewhere in the middle, many years ago, formed quite large on the area of \u200b\u200bthe ledge, where our cave is. Passing the cave is more convenient in the summer, because, the river flows out of her - the water is extraordinarily cold there, and in the warm season - water becomes slightly warmer and can be included inward. The cave for the length is small with its small, but very beautiful waterfall and a water well hiding underground grottoes.
On the ledge in the middle of the cliff, there are observation deckWith which views of the Gum's Gorge and the Laumka itself, as well as on very high rocks and nesting Orlov. Here we can enjoy all this for a cup of fragrant and unusual hot mountain tea.
Our route can always be divided into two conditionally equal parts: a campaign to the cave and return. We have the first part of the excursion to overcome one protracted rise in the rocky area among the mixed broadstay forest. Because of his small density, forest expanses will open in all its glory. It is also very possible to meet with wild animals: roeers, hare, etc. Then our trail, rising, goes into a predominantly calm and magnificent coniferous forest, then the trail pops up on open solar and joyful meadows, on which there were first-rack inhabitants.
Above waterfall
Finally, at the end of our first part of the route, we need to go on a fairly steep descent and - we are in place.
After our holiday with the cave, it remains only to go home. The return journey will add impressions and bright emotions. Moreover, it is necessary to go down the slope down to the Gum's gorge, among the coniferous trees: tees, fir. ... After the descent, we straighten up to the opposite bank of the River Kurdjips in the climbing straps on a special cable. And the rest of the path will pass through a flat path through the Gum Gorge in the village. Mesmay.
For those who chose this tour, I would like to say that the campaign is not very light, so you need to have little physical training. But all efforts are replenished by a hundredfold - in the form of impressions and emotions. I would also like to note that this route is ringlet, that is, we return with another expensive, which is an indisputable advantage over other excursions.
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