Hitchhiking in Dombay. Day 10-11 by @fourapril

10 Day

All night, a guy shouted at the forest in an inhuman voice, "Mo-mo", really all the night long screamed one word all over his throat and neighing :D
This was our last day at Kara-Köl, so all day we were planning to be lazy and eat up our supplies (we took so many groats that we will bring to SPb). Welded coffee, cooked oatmeal, leisurely had breakfast and went to wash sneakers. Today I decided to make soup and tea with some herbs or berries. But first you need some delicious food. We reached the store, enrolling the power banks on the way to the cafe. Bought some strange sweet things, local lemonade and local beer (just could not pass by).

Another idea came to making soup with nettles, sprat in tomato and potato. I walked through the woods, found a couple of butteries and some other incomprehensible mushrooms, did not collect them, well, them. Around is full of scurvy, bushes of barberry and dogrose. So the gull gathered.

Went through the neighborhood, found a river, like the river. Teberda, but not sure.

In the camp, trying to dry the sneakers with the help of glowing stones in a bowler hat. My sneakers did not really help, tomorrow I'll drown in slaps and again my legs like the homeless will have :D

The soup turned out to be suitable, but the nettle itself does not give any taste, I do not know why they used to make soup from it.

There remained a pile of coals and a couple of potatoes, the choice was obvious - bake it.

11 day

Of course, we overslept) instead of 5 am woke up at 8. While we were about to land two dogs, kind ones, they all tried to sleep on our tent.

They saw us off right up to the exit from the village, neither screaming nor the shop helped (they went straight to the store with us), nor other companies of people.
But for some reason they did not go beyond the river, like the Nazgul from the lord of the rings)

On the rise, about 100 meters from the river, we began to stop. It did not work out from the new minutes, every single driver suddenly began to feel like a taxi driver and demanded money, once the car with three (!) People stopped. We were picked up by a couple who were traveling to Arkhyz, they agreed to take us to the turn. On the way again, elegant views were opened with mountains, rivers and pastures with horses. On the way to Dombai we did not see this beauty, because again we did go at night.

Then we were driven by a Russian family from Kislovodsk. Fans of mountain skis and mountains, very savvy in the history of their land, even a couple of times called themselves Russian Caucasians. With them we drove to Cherkessk and then problems began. A huge stream of local cars and the city limits, so we had to walk 2.5 hours on foot on the other side. Believe me, it was hard)

Already everywhere we were picked up by 2 guys who rode 50 km for Cherkessk. They told us a lot about local nations and how they get on with each other, about the fact that the Russian people are afraid to go to the Caucasus because they are progressing, but it's not realized yet. Then suddenly we asked if we were eating meat and stopped at a cafe. After 5 minutes the driver came out with a package in which 3 hutchins with meat, 3 with potatoes and cheese and a bottle of Nestea. That you understand one hutchin it is quite possible to be full. One of them even took the address of my blog on the Voice, if you're reading, thanks for the friends, friend :)

Then they rode on the Niva with the door opening. The day before, he had been driving drunk on the mountains and had put the car on his side. I showed pictures from Elbrus, said, they say a very easy climb, even I can. pondered
He dropped us off near Nevinnomyssk and again we got in the ass: an endless bump without a shoulder, and then an uninterrupted road repair as much as 8km, we tried to stop and everything was unsuccessful, even trying to stop off from a village with the same result. For the day we were incredibly tired, I did not feel my legs. We pitched a tent in the field with the hope that tomorrow there will be a better stop.

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