Tourist route (Crimea) t.b. "Halt" - p. Predushchelnoye - art. Bashtanovka

Length - 11.2/14 km
Running time - 175/180 min.

1. From t.b. “Halt” (260 m) go to the SE along a dirt road along the power line and a beam on the left until a fork with a path before crossing the beam with a road at the edge of a pine forest (NW, 330 m, 1.2 km, 25/20 min).

2. From the fork, go right, to the E, along the path through a young pine forest, gently upward to the fork with a dirt road (3,410 m, 0.5 km, 10/5 min).

3. From the fork, go left, to the south, along any of the two roads connecting further to the farm and road. Yusuf-Chokrak (18) at the crossroads at the foot of Beshik-Tau (NW, 415 m, 0.5 km, 5/5 min).

4. From birth. Yusuf-Chokrak (18) go to the right, to the south, on a dirt road with a blue mark to the fork with the Kaya-Arasin blue marked trail (N, 410m, 1.0 km, 15/15 min).

5. From the fork, go south on a dirt road until the fork in front of the field, then to the left, to the east, soon again to the south, past the quarter post 49|49, then the road turns sharply to 3 and goes to a fork with a path near the quarter post 54|54|55[56 and a table on the edge of the clearing (B, N, 3, N, 350 m, 2.6 km, 40/45 min). From the fork go to Yu3, along the path through the forest to the beginning of the descent into the Kachi-Kalyonskaya gully and down the gully, past the grotto, to 3 to the mouth of the bay. Kachi-Kalyon (19), (H, 150m, 1.8km, 25/40 min).

6. From the fork, take dirt road 3 along the b. Tash-Air (20) to the farm at the fork, on the eastern outskirts of the village. Predushchelnoye (NE, 230 m, 1, 2 km, 20/30 min). From the fork you can go down the path to the SW to b. Tash-Air (20) and go southwest along the ravine down to the spring at the mouth of b. Tash-Air (20), (NE, 150m, 0.5 km, 5/10 min).

7. From the fork, go SE along the highway to the Kachinsky canopy grotto (21), (NW, 150 m, 0.4 km, 5/5 min), the site of an Upper Paleolithic man (35,000-10,000 years ago).

8. From the grotto, go SE along the highway to the spring at the mouth of b. Tash-Air (20) (NW, 150 m, 0.2 km, 5/5 min). On the left along the way, on the wall at the foot of the cliff, you can see a rock painting made with ocher paint by a Eneolithic man (4,000 years ago).

9. From the mouth of b. Tash-Apr (20) go southeast along the highway along the foot of the Fytske rock (22) to the mouth of the bay. Kachi-Kalyon (19), (NW, 150 m, 0.4 km, 5/5 min).

R.M. From the mouth of b. Kachi-Kalyon (19) climb B along the path to the foot of the Kachi-Kalyon cliff (19), then go SE along the foot of the cliff, examining along the way the caves, cells or churches of the medieval town of Kachi-Kalyon, to the large Fourth Grotto with caves and a cross carved into the rock, a bath with water. St. Anastasia (NW, 200 m, 1.0 km, 30/15 min). Further, along the cliff, to the Fifth Grotto, the path is dangerous. The descent to the church, carved into a piece of rock, is difficult. Return to the mouth b. Kachi-Kalyon along the lower path.

10. From the mouth of b. Kachi-Kalyon (19) go SE, E along the highway to a. ost. "Bashtanovka" at the fork in the highway (3, 180 m, 1.4 km, 20/20 min).

11. From the fork, go right, south, across the river bridge. Kacha to the store in the center of the village. Bashtanovka (N, 180m, 0.4 km, 5/5 min);

12. From the store go left, E, along Pervomaiskaya Street to the fork in the streets (SW, 170 m, 0.4 km, 5/5 min).

13. From the fork, go to the right, to the SE, along Rodnikova Street through the outskirts of the village, to the dam, go to the right bank and then to the SE along a path through the forest, a clearing to the station. Bashtanovka (NW, 185m, 1.0km, 15/15min).

 Yu.N. Shestopalov. Tourist routes of the mountainous Crimea.