Altai is the place of power

Places of powerful energy, places of power are all over the world. But only in the Altai Mountains, they are everywhere. Each square meter of the land permeated by energetic flow, it keeps the memory of times and the people, the power of the stone, and the attraction of the sky. In the mountains, very little lands are suitable for life; everywhere - in the river valleys, mountain steppes, plateaus and highlands lived only strong and proud people, because the others are simply couldn`t survive. And around all of that is sounded the triumphant symphony of nature: bass of mountain rivers, waterfalls, castanets of rolling down the slopes the stones, flutes of springs, violins of the crowns.

It sounds now, almost without changing its tone from the beginning of the history of the world - in the Altai Mountains few people, there is no technological civilization, and there is in the 21st century reign living forces of nature, powerful and beautiful.

Do not interrupt the connection of times

In Altai lived the ancient tribes that left a legacy of wonderful petroglyphs - thousands of the cave drawings on the banks of rivers Tarkhan and Elangash, the incredible beauty of the drawings of fantastic animals and dancing shamans in the sanctuary Kalbak-Tash in Kuyussky grotto, in hundreds of other places, known and unknown yet. Here roamed the legendary Scythians, taking in their camping tents ambassadors from the Byzantine Empire; inhabited mysterious Hun-Sarmatian tribes, completely sunked into oblivion; blossomed and fell into decay Turkic Khaganate. Perhaps somewhere among the rocks and mountain streams lost the missing tomb of Genghis Khan.

The Chysky tract has a sheer black rock- "mirror" with ritual petroglyphs, carved over 3000 years ago, 50 meters from it for a thousand years stands on the sun-baked terrace stone statue of Turkish soldier, near from it some stones form the ritual fence age 500-800 years . And after a hundred steps on a modern highway ride shining by chrome SUVs. In Altai beautiful words "connection of time" have more than a material expression.

Planetary crossroad

Altai is a unique center of the most of the most. Among the stone waves of Chulyshman Highlands rumbles the highest 160-meter waterfall in Russia Uchar on Chulcha River. In absolute silence and darkness keeps its secrets the deepest cave in Siberia Kok-Tash, mine depth is 350 meters. On foothill plains stretch visible even from space orbit, the only band forests in the world.

Here lies the Teletskoye Lake, whose ancient name - Yachavaray, "diamond wand" shining with facet of crystal waves; it is called the fifth deepest in Russia, but the true depth of this powerful fault with age of a few million years, nobody knows. In the area of Denisova Cave, a unique multi-layer archaeological monument, every year the epochal discoveries are made: found the artifacts age 300,000 years, although scientific dogma stated that a person exists in the Altai region not more than 45-50 thousand years. It reveals the ancient camp Karama, which was built 800,000 years ago. There are traces of a completely new kind of human - Homo altaiensis with the genomes of 385 differences from the Homo sapiens, while Neanderthals and Homo sapiens share just 202 marks.

In the ridges of Altai Ob is born, it is one of the five largest rivers in Russia. Its source, the merger of the rivers Biya and Katun, has been called for a long time "bi-khair" - "sacred mouth of the river." Ancient legends placed here cache of Golden Woman - mysterious pagan idol, but the painter and philosopher Nicholas Roerich claimed that the final battle between good and evil, which will decide the fate of a human civilization, will happen at the source of the river Ob.

And above it all stands the mountain Belukha, the highest peak of the Altai Mountains and Siberia. Sacred Uch-Sumer, connected with Space by constant energetic channels; it is often identified with mentioned in ancient Indian epos Mountain Meru, center of the world and the axis of the Earth, located with equal distant from the four oceans. The geographical center of Eurasia is really close, at a distance of 300 kilometers - in comparison with the size of the huge mainland the error is minimal.

In Altai people were looking for Shambhala, the Old Believers and the peasants wandered here with the hope of finding Belovodye, a country of happiness with dairy rivers - and Uimon valley, which generously sheltered new settlers, is so similar to the description of this magical corner. The echoes of the legends of the ancient Slavs called Altai the border of Semirechye, sacred Slavic ancestral home. "And in the prehistoric and in the historical terms Altai is unopened treasury" - wrote Roerich, once and for all charmed by Altai energy and predicted a great future for him.

Altai is a grand crossroad. Between Europe and Asia, almost the center of the continent, a node of the ancient trade and nomadic routes. The center of the natural areas, in other places spread over thousands of kilometers, but here streaking for a few hours of travel. An incredible crossing of religions - Orthodoxy, Buddhism, Shamanism, Burkhanism, Hinduism, Taoism - stretching across the centuries and preserved for today; who saw in the peaceful neighborhood near the spring the icon of the Mother of God, tied to the sticks tyalomy-tapes and stone pyramids, will never forget it. For all people, even ordinary crossroads have a mystical significance .... and if we are talking about a planetary scale?

One step away from a parallel universe

Altai is the country of mysteries. Who was actually Altai Princess, found on the Ukok, and why the overwhelming majority of ordinary people of the Altai Mountains connected the opening of her burial with a sequence of natural disasters? For what served the complex of megaliths near the Kosh-Agach, called the Altai Stonehenge? What changes promised heavenly radiance over the top Nairamdal, seen by Temujin army? How to explain the heavenly signs in the Uimon valley on the eve of the Great Patriotic War? What secrets are hidden behind a clear regularity of the location of archaeological objects on the plateau Ukok, forcing to compare this mountain zone with the mysteries of Nazca and Easter? What a woman in a waving clothes was depicted on the ancient boulder from the tracts of Kuderge, irretrievably lost in the blocade of Leningrad? Who was watching the stars from the stone observatory on the Charming Mountain thousand years ago? And this is not even a hundredth or a thousandth of the questions exciting the minds and souls...

There are many unexplained things in Altai: looming visions above the mounds, tired tourists are watching the prophetic dreams at night, unexpectedly happening the healing of the disease and unrealizable dreams are coming true. In the gorge Chulyshman is heard the tramp of invisible horses and voices of the riders, above the Seminsky pass appears cloudy hero, here and there is shown wandering lake with unearthly beauty in the Katun Ridge. Another reality is whatever you call it - the world of subtle energies, through the looking glass, or a parallel universe - leaks, breaks due to the thinned barrier so you can see, hear and touch it. Even the most ordinary person who knows the word "esoterics" only by hearsay. And what can see, feel, learn, perceive people prepared, owning meditative techniques, breaking down the barriers of common deafness and blindness?

There is only one way to find out. To come to Altai.