Solohaul is a tiny, but soulful mountain village. Go there for delicious tea with fresh pancakes and chestnut honey, admire the Shahe River Valley, and spend the rest of the day in an extreme park.
If on vacation you want to change the hot coast to the green coolness of the mountains, go to Solohaul. About an hour's drive from Sochi, and now you are surrounded by completely different landscapes. We also decided to go to the mountains for half a day, especially since it is convenient to stop by the Dagomys troughs on the way and swim in the green-blue baths.
What to see in Solohaul
Now people come to the village mainly for the sake of "Solohaul Park" - an adventure park where tourists can climb into the sky in an airlift, a hot air balloon and an airship, ride a zipline with the breeze (shouts often announce the valley), go rafting and other extreme adventure activities, or just lie in a hammock overlooking the mountains and the tea plantation.
Right next to "Solohaul Park" there is restaurant "At the End of the Earth"... The price tag is high, but what a beautiful view of the Shahe river valley there! However, you can take a photo from the observation deck by the road, if you go a little further. The most beautiful photos are taken in cloudy weather, when clouds swarm over the valley. Lookout coordinates: 43.799176, 39.632631.
In general, before the construction of the park, Solohaul was better known as the birthplace of Russian tea... Here Judah Koshman in 1901 began an extremely dubious enterprise - he planted tea seeds in his garden, which he brought from Adjara. Surprisingly, tea took root and even received recognition, however, only in 1923. Now a museum has been made from Koshman's house, and tourists are brought in by buses. I did not expect that such a modest attraction would have so many tourists - even at the end of October we could barely park.
We quickly looked around the estate, marveled at how the tea was blooming, and sat down to drink this very tea with local chestnut honey and pancakes. Honey in Solohaul is amazingly delicious! I advise you to buy more for souvenirs - it will definitely delight you on long winter evenings. They sell honey in a local shop and in an apiary next door.
What else to see in Solohaul? A little further from the Koshman Museum there is the Weeping Elephant Waterfall, the Shahe River, and tourists also go to the Krestovaya Pustyn Monastery.
How to get to Solohaul
The easiest way is to go by car from Sochi or Dagomys. Just enter the coordinates of the house-museum of Judas Koshman into the navigator: 43.802876, 39.683555.
Buses run too. From Dagomys you can come to # 145 and 154. And from Sochi to Dagomys you must first go to # 81 or train.
