Sea Sea. continuation - Toyota 4Runner, 3.4 liter, 2001

So. The Black Sea itself did not interest us at all. I wanted to go to Abkhazia. But ... Hellish, really hellish traffic jams towards Sochi made us change our minds (The first place we visited was Mamedovo Gorge. A chic place. It’s not the season yet, there are no people there at all. The route is looped. Several small waterfalls and a return along the riverbed to the parking lot. Well, so. Do not be lazy, as we were not too lazy, turn a little off the route and walk up the riverbed. We walked about 1 km up the riverbed. And this is a beautiful narrow and high gorge. The water is like a tear. I tried to drink it, everything is fine, without consequences) Many rifts with natural baths under them. Bathe, enjoy. Class. Found a small cave. The most magnificent thing is that all this is completely unexplored and therefore not polluted by people.

We leave from there and crawl up. There is a famous tea house along the way. A bunch of tea varieties that are grown there. Visit. We crawl to the top. The road ends and turns into a primer creeping further along the mountains. Great views. Not a hint of the bustle of the city. I want to stay there and not go anywhere)
But it's time for us to move on. At the exit to the track there is another cascade of waterfalls. Don't even go. Dirty, not beautiful, after mamedka - a complete failure.
We drove back towards Tuapse, since the goal was in that direction - the Ashe River. We didn’t really know the road, but the strings of UAZs with tourists who are taken to Ashe are the surest guide. After asking one of them how to go and where, we set off. It's not far. Asphalt goes to grader along the Ashe River. There are many rolled fords. The depth is different. Half a meter to one and a half. For every taste. You can drive here and there calmly, since the bottom has already been rolled with UAZs and shishigs. There is a rather high waterfall in the river valley. bunch of tourists. Upstream the road becomes interesting. A lot of "healing" mud) It all comes out to some kind of natural hot tubs in the river. Tourists are also brought there in UAZs, there are a lot of people. UAZ drivers look somehow suspiciously at Toyota, by the way))))
It can and is worth going there, but only for the sake of the road itself, since fords and mud are fun) And this, local businessmen set up a booth at the entrance and collect 100 rubles per person for leaving. Turn up the music and drive past with a blank face. Everything is fine, only they are waving their hands behind and apparently shouting something bad about Moscow.
Returning to the track, we drove towards Dzhubga, where we planned to stop and from there go to the Guam Gorge. We arrived and stayed at the Southern Night Hotel. The place is good. relatively inexpensive.
It didn’t work out with Guamka, because it was raining and it was quite cold (after spending 2 days in Dzhubga waiting for the rains to stop in the mountains, we visited local waterfalls, where tourists are also taken in Jeeps. There is nothing outstanding, but a large and long ford across the river is very Pretty deep, but since the 4Runner has an air intake under the right wing, everything went well even without a snorkel)
Since the weather still wasn’t good… with sadness about Guamka, we drove on. On the way, we visited the Tesheb waterfalls (by that time I was already starting to frankly feel sick from the waterfalls, to be honest). Well, yes, well, the waterfalls ... it’s okay. But it’s decent to go to them, you won’t drive up by car, because they don’t let you in. The path is narrow, if there is an oncoming stream, then at least shoot yourself)
Then we turned onto a country road along the Pshada River. The goal is the Pshad cascade. You can go, then walked on foot. And again waterfalls)) But the nature there is really beautiful.
Having reached Praskoveevka (this is beyond Divnomorsk), I again rejoiced at that. what a nice sea there. Even swam for the first time))

And we started to Novorossiysk, where friends and rest from the road were already waiting for us.
Everything is fine in Novoross) We ate, drank, walked)

And ahead was the Crimea, but more on that later.
Oh yes, why didn't we go to Dombai. We phoned the local, he said that they also had bad weather, that everything was bad and there were almost no views, since everything was in the clouds and the ground was full of dirt (