Valley of Enchantment

The tours described above are by bus. I would like to offer lovers of hiking a fascinating route to the Charming Valley, lost in the spurs of the Dzhinal Range.

When you pass by rail, then on the stretch between the stations of Beliy Ugol and Podkumok, behind the former pioneer camp "Eaglet", on the left, a large gorge, densely overgrown with forest, goes into the vastness of the Dzhinalsky Range. This is the Valley of Enchantment, where we are on our way.

The journey can be started from the Podkumok railway station. Passing the residential buildings of the village, we go to the bank of the Podkumok River. Having passed downstream of the river, where it forms wide reaches, we choose a place to wade. Sometimes, after the rains, the river becomes quite turbulent, but the crossing is nevertheless safe. Here it is best to go out onto a country road leading to summer cottages and a small village. These amazing places of the Pasture Range are beautiful in summer. The air is filled with the aroma of flowering mountain herbs, and the sky literally rings from the iridescent songs of larks. either hovering motionless in the blue heights of the sky, or rapidly diving towards the ground. Swallows, pigeons, shrikes prefer to sit out in the summer heat on high-voltage wires, where a light breeze always brings pleasant freshness.

Here, on the mountain pastures, the hostesses milk the cows. Thin streams of milk tinkle in the stools. the puish foam of fresh milk rises higher and higher. And you will never be denied a mug of milk, and even with good wishes for health. In even rows on the slopes there are mows of grass cut in the morning to turn into fragrant, vitamin hay, which has absorbed all the smells of a sunny summer. Thyme, oregano, tricolor violet, valerian - more than two hundred species of medicinal herbs can be found at this time on the slopes of the Pasture Range. Collect, don't be lazy! The expanse began for mushroom pickers. The round caps of champignons in the pastures crawled thickly to the surface of the earth, small heads of summer mushrooms hide in the grass.

And here, finally, is a small river flowing through the Charming Valley. It breaks out into the valley of the Podkumok River with a waterfall up to 3.5 meters high. True, because of the outbuildings, it can only be approached from above. A small path leads us further. For about one and a half kilometers, the stream cuts a narrow gorge with steep sides. The walk is quite difficult, but interesting. Huge burdock leaves sometimes almost completely close the path in the dense forest. Fallen trees block the path. The brook chimes merrily on the pebbles, hitting the shores composed of marls and shales at the turns. In such places, one must be careful, as there are many small landslides. Further, the path along the Charm Valley is easier. The river now hides in a dense forest, then runs out into sun-drenched clearings. The forest in the Valley of Enchantment is very interesting. Thickets of hazel, dogwood, hawthorn, mountain ash, elderberry, maple, oak are dense and shady. Higher up the valley, among the thickets of hazel, you can see small trees strewn with whole garlands of bizarre large white flowers with a spicy smell, six fingers coming out right from the center of the leaves. This is Eucomia, whose homeland is China. It looks like laurel cherry and contains gutta - the raw material for the production of gutta-percha.

Higher up the valley, rocks made of dense marl block the path, from where the stream begins as a powerful spring. This is a very good place to hang out.

After a rest, you can return the same way to the Podkumok station, but, perhaps, the path further up the slope will be more interesting. The forest ends, the slopes become gentle. There is a good country road along which you can go to the village of White Coal. The road offers a magnificent view of the valley of the Podkumok River. Going down the road is quite easy, and after 3-4 kilometers you will reach the village, where the Beliy Ugol railway station is located and city buses run.

A picturesque place on the left bank of the Psekups River, a few kilometers south of the city of Goryachiy Klyuch and away from the Don federal highway. The Valley of Charm can be reached by train Goryachiy Klyuch - Tuapse.

The Valley of Enchantment is characterized by clean air, beautiful scenery and microclimate. It is not hot here in summer, and in winter moderate temperatures are combined with an almost complete absence of wind and atmospheric pressure with extremely small differences. A huge foothill glade nine kilometers long and two wide, overgrown with oaks.

Near the Valley of Charm are Bogatyrsky caves.

Through it passes the road to the Great Phanagoria stalactite cave and to the Main (Dividing) Caucasian Range. It is close to these places and is quite accessible for excursions.

According to the guidebook "100 sights of the Goryachiy Klyuch" by V. Dyadyushenko

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The very name of this excursion - a walk in the "Valley of Enchantment" beckons you on the road. And indeed in the valley of Enchantment have your own waterfall , canyons are very similar to those located in Colorado, only in miniature. If you shoot all this in a movie, you can’t distinguish it from the original from a special angle. And it is also rich in waist-deep steppe grasses and a rather impenetrable forest thicket.

Locals call this place the Chuguevskaya Balka, under this name the Charm Valley is described in Wikipedia. Now this place is nature reserve with a unique relic beech forest. At the bottom of the beam, a river of karst origin flows with many.

Amazing Valley of Enchantment is described in the novel "Wolf's Milk" Andrey Gubin who grew up in these places. Probably, this is precisely why from the pages of the book she appears before us as a mysterious kingdom with "monsters, treasures and sorcerers, who took the form of stumps and snags." There, “the forest road goes to the sky” and blue coolness creeps from the mountains. There, "the stumps that are planted in burdocks and lilies are taken prisoner, and the sharp cry of a jay pierces the consciousness." Those who visited the Valley of Enchantment cannot but agree with the writer, the impressions from visiting it are so strong.

Getting into the Valley of Enchantment is not easy, you have to walk along, and it is blocked by many buildings and fences that make walking difficult. Yes, and in the valley itself, sometimes you can find not very pleasant traces of human activity, but if you do not pay attention to these little things, consider the excursion to the Valley of Enchantment as the costs of modern civilization, it will turn out to be very exciting and will be remembered for a long time, if not for life.

I can offer you, both start at the Podkumok station - it is between it and the neighboring White Coal station that the Valley of Charm is located. Only from White Coal the path to it is further and more difficult. You can also go along the highway, but just keep in mind that the highway is too busy.

And so from Podkumok station to the valley of charm there are two ways.

How to get to the Valley of Enchantment - map.

The first is to cross the Podkumok River on a suspension bridge and move to the left along a country road that winds along the picturesque hillsides. This gives a moderate load to lovers of walking. On the way, you can stop at the drilling rig and have a cold drink, which is so similar to narzan.

The second way - turn left immediately from the station and go along the road along the valley of the Podkumok River to the automobile bridge. In the latter case, the meeting with the Valley of Charm hidden in the spurs of the Jinal Range will be more unexpected and especially pleasant. From the area thoroughly mastered by man, as if by magic, you will find yourself in a fairy tale. All around is silence, peace, solitude and motley herbs of a flowering meadow, and behind it a shady thicket of the forest.

Gateway to the Valley of Enchantment.

Previously, two chalk cliffs served as a kind of gate to the Charming Valley, between which a small river runs out to meet Podkumok. Walking through this pretty mini canyon , you could more clearly feel the difference in the terrain behind and in front of you. But today, all approaches to the rocks are blocked by fences and buildings, and therefore you can get into the Charming Valley only by crossing the nearest hillock.