Kruglitsa is a mountain that is the highest point of the Bolshoy Taganay ridge and the entire Taganay mountain range. With its height of 1178 meters, it attracts tourists and travelers with its beauty and unique natural features. The name of the mountain comes from its characteristic round shape, as well as its resemblance to a Turkic headdress, w
Valley of Fairy Tales
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The Valley of Fairy Tales, also known as the Sand Hills, is a unique area of nature located between the Otklikny Ridge and Kruglitsa in the Bolshoi Taganay ridge. This place amazes with its beauty and diversity of natural formations.
A special feature of the Valley of Fairy Tales is the presence of low-growing sub-alpine spruce forests, meadows with berries (lingonberries, blueberries, crowberries), mountain grasses and dwarf juniper. Here you can find numerous bizarre remains made up of sugar-like quartzites.
The place where the Valley of Fairy Tales is located is located in a zone of past intense tectonic movements. Quartz grains, weakly held together by a cementitious substance, acquired a slightly rounded shape through friction against each other and physical weathering. The result was the formation of striking shapes in rock outcrops.
As a result of physical weathering, material released from the rocks was deposited along the slopes of the saddle in the form of snow-white quartz sand. Today this sand is concentrated on narrow paths trodden by humans.
Thanks to the bizarre shapes of the remains, some of which resemble various fairy-tale characters, this place was called the Valley of Fairy Tales. Tourists come here to enjoy the amazing scenery and feel the atmosphere of a fairy-tale world created by nature.