Christmas in the Altai Reserve

Yalya - a village on the shores of Lake Teletsky. Once upon a time I accidentally found out about this place and simply infected the idea of ​​a trip here. I watched amazing photographs, studied the information on the network and planned, planned, planned ... For me, I became a symbol of human harmony for me: protected nature, people who completely love their work and surround them.

Reserve, Taurus Lake, Gardens, I was interested in everything. Time passed, the guide's work appeared and I managed to visit there, almost all my expectations met. I’ll say more, I was in some cultural shock, I liked everything.

In a word, “sunk”, so deeply that so far this place is one of the main and desired for me. This year we visited there in winter, at Christmas. It is almost impossible to describe a lot in words. We saw amazing sunsets, dawn, even a surf on the lake.

I will gladly show all this in the photographs, it will be more correct.

Sleeping Zurbagan, the guard of Lake Teletsky.

We started our visit with a large tour of the village, our guide was Eugene - a reserve employee and a local resident.

By the way, the village itself is also unique in that there are no random people. I owe the reserved territory, all residents are employees of the reserve, the local weather station and a pair of stores.

Eugene told us about the history of this village and the work of the reserve. We visited the central estate, a weather station and saw several interesting monuments, one of which was a steam boiler - a monument to the Stef steamer, the first steamer on the lake.

The employee of the weather station takes the readings of the devices

Further, Evgeny held us through the famous egg gardens, showed the Monument "Three Apples" and told us the history of gardening in Altai. On this acquaintance with the village we finished, a couple of hours for this was enough by the eyes.

Temple of the Transfiguration of the Lord

The next day of our visit, we went for a walk along the shore of the lake towards Vaskina Gora, most of the photos from there. It was an absolutely amazing day, a surf, a scarlet dawn, it was impossible to break away from the camera.

We walked so until lunch, after which we returned to the village. We did not stay in Evaly for long, but it seemed that a whole life had passed. Remembering the past trip, a persistent sensation of the “other world”, far from the hustle and bustle, evil people and stone walls, is created.

It is very difficult to write a construct when emotions are so bright and alive. Therefore, I will open and for the sake of justice I attach a couple of informative links by egg.

Rules for visiting the protected village http://www.altzapovednik.ru/news/2012/07/pravila-yilu.aspx

Collective blog of the village http://yailu.livejournal.com/

I also wrote a briefly here http://stepanyukv.livejournal.com/17948.html autumn photos. )

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