Western caucasus
It is the high-mountainous valley located in riverheads of Big Zelenchuk. In woody mountains of the Western caucasus the fan of gorges leaves to a snow ridge of the Main Caucasian ridge. Arhyze , the soft climate settles down in an original mountain bowl, here, there are no strong winds. From four hundred high-mountainous lakes Karachaevo-Circassia, about seventy lakes are in Arhyze. Majestic fir and pine woods, fill settlement with aroma of needles. On the sun of a pine seem golden and give to settlement special charm. Here oak groves adjoin to a pine pine forest. Direct and smooth trunks of pines lift the shaggy heads almost on 30-meter height, behind the glades decorated with rare birches, firs and fur-trees darken. Here there are firs семисотлетнего the age, reaching 70-85 - meter height and having diameter in one and a half-two meter. A fir help to weaken power of avalanches and селей, rockfalls and collapses, protects soil. Old fur-trees are entangled by freakish threads of a lichen, sparkles, on the sun a web with drops of the damp dew as if you are in fantastic wood. Elegant fly agarics adjoin with modest маслятами. Steppe plants grow mixed up with mountain plants. Bumblebees and bees buzz, strange butterflies fly over blossoming meadows, on a stone the lizard has hidden, in bushes has run ежиха with the kids-ezhatami. The transparent stream running among an emerald grass, reddening fragrant wild strawberry and originated of glaciers a number of a standing ridge rings, with cheerful noise and a rainbow of splashes it flows down falls on ledges on a mossy channel. And through trees in a becoming blue distance the mountain tops covered with eternal snow shine. One of sights is beechen wood of Arhyza. The mountain area Arhyza covers the top part of gorge of the river of Big Zelenchuk with its inflows, the former aul of Arhyz and modern protected settlement of astrophysicists - Bottom Arhyz whom because of its arrangement in beechen wood Bukovo is called.