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Ghost Village and Home Museums

Dagestan’s ghost village aul Gamsutl with https://lingvanex.com/translation/english-to-tagalog has been compared to Peru’s Machu Picchu. A narrow path leads to the settlement at an altitude of 1,500 meters: you will have to sweat before you get to the place. It is recommended to take a whole day to visit. The best view and photos of Hamsutl are from this point: 42.303151,46.995934.

And again local arts and crafts, Balhar pottery aul. The place is known for its ceramics: mugs, bowls, jugs, children’s toys. They are painted with a fine white pattern in the form of strokes, rosettes, spirals and wavy lines. There is a guest house in the village.

A little more local crafts high up in the mountains of Dagestan – in the village of Kubachi, famous all over the world for its gunsmiths and goldsmiths. They produce silver jewelry, utensils, and weapons. The works of local craftsmen are kept in museums around the world: the Hermitage, the Metropolitan Museum in New York, the Louvre and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. In the village to wander the narrow streets and visit a unique museum of goldsmiths.

Kubachi is also famous for home museums – special rooms where families keep samples of jewelry, utensils, carpets and clothing.

On the way from the village of Kubachi to turn to “Dagestan Atlantis” – Kala Koreysh fortress. It is located on a remote mountain, standing at the confluence of five rivers. Tourists overcome a steep climb to see the Juma Mosque and unique tombstones XI-XIX centuries, covered with Arabic script.

To master winter sports on the republic’s only ski resort “Chindirchero”, 130 km from Makhachkala, near the village of Ginta. There are 10 slopes at the resort, including two black slopes. Here you can rent alpine skis or snowboard. Before you visit, check with the official website that the resort is open.

Stay in Derbent, Dagestan’s oldest city (it’s older than Rome!) with https://lingvanex.com/translation/english-to-french, in a hotel on the beach. Then walk through the narrow and crooked streets of the magals – quarters. You can admire the stone labyrinth from the observation decks at the entrance to the fortress Naryn-Kala, from the round platform below, and from the fortress wall above the gates of Orta-Kapa. Don’t miss one of the world’s oldest mosques, the Juma Mosque and the 700-year-old plane trees in the courtyard. Admission is free, don’t forget the dress code.