A narrow mountain road, wading across Mountain Rivers, sharp slopes, puddles and mud, and, of course, a professional driver. Highland mountains, waterfalls, gorges and canyons, Alpine meadows, summer snow, a stunning view of the peaks of the Main Caucausian Range.

• Outfit recommendations: sportswear and sport shoes, bathing suit, cap, sun glasses, knapsack, photo or video camera.
• Special requirements: no medical contraindications to walking tourism; passport.

Program 1: «To waterfalls in Aibga»

Departure from the hotel at 9.00. Transfer to Veseloye village near Adler by a specially equipped open car UAZ. Here the trip along a picturesque mountain road, which was built in 1911 by engineer Okulich, to Aibga settlement starts. The road is built in the form of a balcony over 200-meter hills along a fairytale gorge of the Psou river. Along the way you will enjoy smell of primeval wood, the beauty of the river, which no one can describe, with its wild karst mazes, waterfalls with many cascades and canyons, wonderful views of the Turii mountains peaks, covered with snow and the Akh-Ag mountain with two heads.

Aibga village, squeezed by mountains, is spread along 200-300 meters on free terraces over the Psou river. Large curly trees which look like tall linden are a decoration of Aibga. Only here you can see such strong old Circassian cherry and pear trees. Another 3 km from the center of the settlement and the road suddenly ends. You will have to go by foot. We will come down to the Bezymyanka river, then go up the river and in 15 minutes we will reach the main goal of the tour: Bezymyanny waterfall, of incredible beauty and 74 meters height, which consists of 3 cascades. After a solid lunch with shashlyk and Caucausian wine we are going home.

• Location: the Psou river valley, Aibga village. Territory of the Sochi national park.
• Duration: 8-10 hours.
• Length: 45 km (one way).
• Activities: car guided tour, tracking to the waterfall 1 km.
• Price includes: lease of a transportation vehicle (UAZ), services of a guide, entrance fees, picnic (pork shashlyk, vegatables, pickles, suluguni cheese, wine, juice, mineral water), insurance.

Program 2: «The Khmelevskye Lakes, the Achishkho range»

Departure from the hotel at 9.00. Transfer to Krasnaya Polyana by a specially equipped open car UAZ (67 km, 1,5 hour). From Krasnaya Polyana we will come up along a mountain serpentine at the spurs of the Achishkho Range. We will make a stop and take an easy walking tour to Melnichny waterfall (20 minutes).

You can pick up mushrooms and blackberry on your way. Only singing of birds can break a mysterious silence of this fairy wood. Well-rolled earth road will bring you up along the boxwood to sub-Alpine meadows covered with a vivid carpet of flowers, with summer snow, highland lakes, fresh air, which will give you vigour and keep you in high spirits during the whole year! A small walk along a mountain path to the point of panoramic view (15 minutes). The point provides a splendid panoramic view of the Main Caucausian Range and its spurs.

• Location: Krasnaya Polyana, the Achishkho range. Territory of the Sochi national park.
• Duration: 8-10 hours.
• Length: 78 km (one way).
• Activities: car guided tour, tracking to the waterfall 500 m, to panoramic view point 400 m.
• Price includes: lease of a car (UAZ), services of a guide, entrance fees, light snacks, insurance.
• For additional fee: picnic — from 20 Euro per person, horses.

Program 3: «To the national park and Alpine meadows with a picnic»

Departure from the hotel at 8.00. Transfer to Krasnaya Polyana (1,5 hours). From there along the valley of the Mzymta river to mineral springs — «A source of youth and a long life» (7 km, 30 — 40 minutes). Tasting of mineral water. Here you start to come up along a mountain serpentine to Alpine meadows at the spur of the Main Caucausian Range at the height of 2000 m above sea level (15 km, 1,5-2 hours). On your way you will enjoy an odour of primeval wood, will taste crystal-clear spring water, and if you are lucky, you can even meet wild inhabitants of this place: a wild boar, a deer, a chamois and even a bear. Walking tour along Alpine meadows: summer snow, Alpine meadows with plenty of flowers and herbs, mountain peaks, clear air, no civilization at all — you will be impressed a whole year!

After a delicious lunch with hot shashlyk and odour of Caucasian wine, having had a little rest, we come back to Krasnaya Polyana (1,5 hours). Transfer to the hotel.

• Location: Krasnaya Polyana, the Grushevy range, Otroga district. Territory of the Sochi national park.
• Duration: 10 hours
• Length: 90 km (one way).
• Activities: guided tour by car.
• Price includes: lease of a car (UAZ), services of guides, conservation area and national park entrance fees, insurance, picnic (shashlyk, suluguni, vegetables, wine).
• For additional fee: picnic — from 20 Euro per person, horses.

Program 4: «Canyons of the Psakho river — Vorontsovsky Caves»

Departure from the hotel at 9.00. Transfer to Lesnoye settlement to canyons of the Psakho river (1 hour). Walking tour along the canyon (4 km, 2 hours): a fairytale boxwood, in which eternal silence and rest reigns, karst rocks and cliffs of up to 70 m height, through which the river has been making its way for centuries, waterfalls, deep ponds with warm water, in which you can bath all the way.

Our guide will prepare a light snack specially for you. Transfer to the Vorotsovsky Caves. The way goes through mountain villages, rivers and canyons along the ancient caravan path, which used to connect highlands with the coast (25 km, 2-2,5 hours). Earth roads, fording across mountain rivers, coming up and down the hills.

Walking tour around a small circle of the Vorotsovskaya cave, the longest cave in Russia (40 minutes).Transfer to Sochi (20 km, 1 hour).

• Location: Lesnoye village, the Psakho river, the Vostochnaya Khosta river, the Vorontsovsky caves. Territory of the Sochi national park.
• Duration: 8-10 hours.
• Length: 80 km
• Activities: guided tour by car, walking tour along the river canyon (2 hours), a guided tour along the cave (40 minutes).
• Price includes: lease of a car (UAZ), services of guides, the cave and the national park entrance fee, insurance, snacks (sandwiches with cheese and sausage, vegetables, raisins, dried pitted and halved apricot, nuts, chocolate, mineral water).
• For additional fee: picnic — from 20 Euro per person, horses.

Program 5: «Solokhaul — 33 waterfalls»

Departure from the hotel at 9.00. Transfer to Polovinka settlement (40 km, 1 hour). From the settlement the road turns to the right and goes along the valley of the Shakhe river to Bolshoy Kichmay settlement (7 km, 10-15 minutes). Here is where real jeeping starts: earth roads, a part of the way goes in the river. On the way you will visit ‘A museum under open sky’, which presents history and culture of ancient native inhabitants of the Black Sea coast — the Adygs and the Shapsugs.

33 waterfalls are situated 4 km to the north from Kishmay settlement in the Dzhegosh district. This is an incredibly beautiful mountain gorge with a cascade of waterfalls of up to 12 m height. It is surrounded by broadleaved oakwood with hornbeams, maples, alders and southern exotics; right in the gorge a relict endemic Amrenian boxwood grows. Walking tour to waterfalls (30 — 50 minutes). Here you can taste national Caucausian cuisine.

• Location: Lazarevsky district, Bolshoy Kichmay settlement. Territory of the Sochi national park.
• Duration: 6-8 hours.
• Length: 105 km.
• Activities: car guided tour, tracking to the waterfall.
• Price includes: lease of a car (UAZ), services of guides national park entrance fees, insurance.
• For additional fee: lunch.