Caucasus

I plan to go ground beetle fishing in the Caucasus this summer.
So many options - just eyes run away. I would like to visit the Lagonak range with the plateau of the same name, and mal. Bamabak-Agig-Thach and Arkhyz and the Caucasus Nature Reserve on the route Tru-Allous-Achipsta and much more...
A question for experts: where and in what time frame is it better to go to cover the maximum variety of ground beetle fauna (not only carabuses are interested), do backpacks go in the Caucasian and Teberda nature reserves?

Tanavu: I also plan to go to the Caucasus in the summer (closer to the second half), but I haven't decided where yet.

So I'm wondering where to go.

Go to Terskol, near Elbrus. Excellent hotel room - 400-500 rubles. Cheap cafes with delicious cooking. A market with an abundance of souvenirs. Ski lift to the mountains. Recreation + insects. I really liked it there last summer.

I'm going to go to Adler in the summer, I wanted to go fishing in Krasnaya Polyana,
tell me, who knows which way is better to go there - to Aibgu or Achishkho?
I've never been there before, I'm going to put down glasses, catch butterflies in the mountains.
It's just that it will be one-day trips, it's a pity if it turns out in vain.
Can you still catch something interesting at the end of July?

This post was edited by Kallima - 27.03.2011 16: 36

  

At first, I decided to go along the sea in the direction of Sukhumi.. Maybe Batumi..

To get to Abkhazia, Ukrainians have recently required a foreign passport.
After that (passport stamp), it is strictly not recommended to enter the territory of Georgia!
Keep in mind that the Abkhazian side will require you to insure every day of your stay in the country.
I suspect that it will be impossible to get to Adjara along the coast, regardless of nationality and type of passport...

- I would like to invite someone to visit us for a fishing trip to the Caucasian Mineral Waters!

maybe there is someone here with a similar proposal for Georgia, Armenia)? I'm going soon via Vladikavkaz.

I'm going to go to Adler in the summer, I wanted to go fishing in Krasnaya Polyana,
tell me, who knows which way is better to go there - to Aibgu or Achishkho?
I've never been there before, I'm going to put down glasses, catch butterflies in the mountains.
It's just that it will be one-day trips, it's a pity if it turns out in vain.
Can you still catch something interesting at the end of July?

I was on an excursion to Achishkho in 2006. There is a solid forest, only at the top, near the hotel, small clearings. I was in May, I caught a healthy barbel, I don't remember which one (I didn't catch it for myself). At the end of May, there were no interesting butterflies there. In July, I don't know... I don't think this is a good place for, say, P. nordmanni.

It doesn't make sense to "go fishing" in Krasnaya Polyana, you need to linger there. Achishkho is worse for butterflies than Aibga (I did not come across any nordmanni, melancholica, graucasica, etc. on Achishkho, and on Aibga - as many as you want), but you can't turn around for them on Aibga in one day, since you can catch the same nordmanni only by going away from the upper station of the cable car so as not to confuse a large audience. It may turn out (this is unpredictable) that a small area near the upper station of the cable car on the Aibga will be fenced with a false sign hanging out that it is impossible to go beyond the fence, as there is supposedly a border zone there. Therefore, it is better to enter the Aibgu (and even then – if there are no extortionate barriers installed there yet) generally from the back side, on foot, on horseback or on good equipment, from the side of the Clearing through the Greek Bridge on Mzymta. It will be possible to climb higher than the forest only on foot or on horseback, along trails. This option (back, "Abkhazian" slope) even better is the arrival on the cable car from the "Russian" slope, because Caucasian butterflies mainly fly on the "Abkhazian slope", but closer to the cable car on this slope there are booths, cattle graze, and alpica is subject to overgrazing. The subalpine is so and so, but on our slope it is poorly expressed, and on the"Abkhazian", as it should be, it is very impassable.

If there are no fences and, accordingly, problems with leaving the ridge, from the cable car, along the "Abkhazian" slope (or just along the ridge to the circus), then, of course, the best option is to climb the Aibga by cable car, and then go on foot, but you will have to go quite far away, and return to the cable car before finishing her work will be difficult, and there will be no time to catch. Therefore, it is best to spend the night on the upper border of the forest, closer to the booths in a tent or just in the booth (if there is an empty one). You should not go deep into the forest for the night, you can run into a bear, not everyone likes it. The next day, you can go down either by cable car or the "Abkhazian" slope on foot by trails descending to the Greek Bridge (located at Krasnopolyansk Highway at the entrance to the Clearing). The second option requires knowledge of the trails, the first time it is possible only with someone who knows.

And you can go to Achishkho for karabuses; however, it is more interesting to reach the level of the alpika (above the Achipsin waterfalls), there is a path from the village through a Round glade and a former weather station (1897 m above sea level), but the route is quite tedious, you can only turn around from early dawn to very late at night, and if you if you put glasses on, then you can't do without spending the night (best of all at the top of waterfalls).

Thank you for the detailed answer, so let's go to Aibgu...
I hope that because of the preparation for the Olympics, they didn't put up any obstacles at the top...