Inside Ossetia: the most eventful route in Ossetia

Ossetia-Alania is a land where the spirit of freedom reigns, where glacial peaks reach the heavens and alternate with picturesque gorges, where guests are greeted with open arms, where you can be not just a tourist, but a traveler, a naturalist, and an explorer! The Karmadon Gorge is one of the narrowest and most severe in its beauty gorges in Ossetia, печально known for the Kolka glacier collapse in 2002. As a result, the inhabitants of the gorge and the film crew of Sergei Bodrov died. Here you can see the tunnel itself and Mount Maili, from where the glacier descended. Dargavs Valley is the road of alpine meadows of the Green Pass, there on the steep rocky slope of Mount Raminyrag, there is the Dargavs Necropolis — the 'City of the Dead', consisting of more than 90 vaulted structures of original shape, and in the depths of the valley the Midagibinsky waterfalls hide, the height of which reaches 750 meters, where the only Latin letter in the Cyrillic alphabet 'ӕ' not only fits harmoniously into the mountain landscape, but also became the highlight of Ossetia, blood-chilling swings over the cliff, where a kind grandfather treats you with wine and will definitely lift your spirits. Kurtatinsky Gorge is the cradle of Ossetia, opens it the tower of Taga and Kurt, the medieval customs of the silk road, this area is the land of medieval towers, upstream of Fiagdon the Alan St. Uspensky Orthodox monastery flaunts. This is the southernmost and highest monastery in Russia — at an altitude of 2000 meters. We will visit one of the unique defensive structures in the Caucasus — the Dzivgisskaya fortress of the XIII–XIV centuries. According to legend, once the fortress withstood the onslaught of Persian Shah Abbas and protected the Kurtatinsky Gorge. Dzivgis is considered a sacred place for the local people and a symbol of their стойкости. And the excursion ends with the Kadargavansky Canyon, this place is considered one of the most beautiful and interesting in the Fiagdon Gorge. The Fiagdon River in this place has been cutting its way between the rocks for thousands of years, although it seems as if someone made a cut in the rock with a giant disk, the canyon reaches 60 meters in height, and its width varies from 4 to 6 meters.