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RussiaWhat to Expect and Is It Worth Visiting
Alibek waterfall - this is the number one attraction visited in the summer by tourists from Dombay. It is considered the largest in the vicinity of the resort, and by some estimates even the largest in all of Karachay-Cherkessia, and is easily accessible. It is part of the tourist route Alibek gorge of Teberdinsky Reserve.
Remarkably, this is a very young waterfall. It appeared as a result of climate change, which is believed to have occurred due to human actions. Due to global warming in the middle of the last century, the bilingual glacier began to melt, and from this water it was formed. Therefore, it can be called man-made, and the creators were all mankind.
The route to Alibek waterfall is one of the longest and longest, but it is quite possible to overcome it in one day back and forth, besides, you can overcome part of the way on off - road vehicles for a fee. Although even without a Jeep, walking will be easy: no steep ascents and descents, everywhere there is a gentle road and trail. After visiting the waterfall, you can continue and see two more attractions: Turye LAKE and Alibek Glacier.
Important! At the checkpoint at the entrance to the reserve you need to present a Russian passport, birth certificates for children. Citizens without documents are not allowed.
🕐 Working hours
entrance to the trail through the checkpoint of the Reserve from 08:00 to 18:00, It is better to visit from May to September.
💵Entrance fee / ticket price
to access the waterfall, you will need to pay 200 rubles for the entrance to the tourist route "Alibek gorge" in the reserve, children under 7 years old - free of charge. Entry to the route by car - 200 rubles.
🚶 How to get there
the waterfall is located 6.5 kilometers from the center of Dombay, the height difference will be more than 360 meters (waterfall on the map), but the road is gentle. To visit it, visit Teberdinsky nature reserve the Route "Alibek Gorge" is provided. It will take 6-12 hours to overcome it on foot along with Tula Lake and the glacier (in both directions), only the waterfall can be seen in 4 hours. Part of the way can be overcome by Jeep (offered at the entrance to the Reserve), then you will save almost half the time, but the cost of the trip will be about 1000 rubles per person, or 4000 for the whole car for 4-6 people.
Route description: From the center of Dombay, you need to walk to the checkpoint at the entrance to the reserve (Checkpoint on the map), where to pay for the entrance, and follow the dirt road to the alplager "Alibek". After the camp there will be a border point where your documents will be checked. Almost immediately after the border point there will be a fork with signs, from where to the waterfall on the path to the left 800 meters without steep ascents and descents.
Theoretically, you can get from the checkpoint to the alplager "Alibek" in your car, as a result of which you will reduce 4 kilometers in one direction, and only 2 km will remain to go to the waterfall. Personal transport is easily passed at the checkpoint, you just need to enter it into the contract and pay for travel. From the checkpoint you will have to go on a very bad rocky road, which not every driver and car will master. But during our visit, local residents passed here even on modern "Lada" and foreign "puzoterki". If you can not get your car directly to the Alpine camp, you can leave the car earlier, but be sure to remove it from the road, because there are large all-terrain trucks. Directly at the Alpine camp, the car can be easily left free of charge at one of several sites.