Interesting facts about the Caucasus Mineralnye Vody
The Kazakhstan Sanatorium grants not only caring staff, good-quality treatment and comfortable accommodation, but also trips to the most interesting cities of the Caucasus Mineralnye Vody. The health resort is located in the city of Essentuki, near Pyatigorsk, Kislovodsk and Zheleznovodsk. It isn’t hard to get there.
Here are 5 facts about the Caucasus Mineralnye Vody to make your trip more entertaining:
- The city of Pyatigorsk is shown with the gesture “two pistols aimed at each other” in sign language. This gesture also means “duel”. This is a reference to the duel between Lermontov and Martynov.
- Medovye vodopady (Honey waterfalls) are located 20 km away from Kislovodsk. According to the legend, waterfalls got their name because a hundred years ago wild bees lived in the crevices of the rocks of the waterfalls. Under the water flow the honeycombs were eroded, and honey slipped down, making the water sweet and sticky.
- The resort park in Kislovodsk is the largest park in Europe. Its square is more than 1,350 hectares, and there is a “Dolina Roz” (Valley of roses) on its territory, in which more than 110 species of roses are fragrant.
- In the park of Zheleznovodsk there is a peculiar stone sculpture, which is known as “Yajco zhelanij” (Egg of wishes). This is a sundial called “Zodiac signs”.
- Some of the events of the famous novel “12 stuliev” (the 12 chairs) took place in Pyatigorsk, particularly at the Proval (lake in the mountain) and in Tsvetnik (a flower garden).
Travel to those places where the history was written.
