Elton - a village and a lake in the Volgograd region. Not simple, but the largest salted in Europe! So much salt you've never seen. This is a huge bowl of golden-pink water that is fringed with snow crystals.
Here they come to improve their health in the sanatorium and look at the chamomile steppes in the local national park. Here is an amazing landscape of beauty and diversity: the lake, valleys, ravines, steppes and beaches.
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How to get
Elton is located in the Pallasovsky district near the border with Kazakhstan. To get here, it is necessary to take shape at the border post, which is located in the center of the village.
It's best to get to Elton from Volgograd, Saratov or Kamyshin. Roads in this area are not the best, so you have to spend a lot of time on the road. True, you can wipe through the steppe - then save a few hours.
From Volgograd to Elton a bus leaves several times a day, which runs through Volzhsky to Pallasovka. If you want to get by train - leave at Elton station
Infrastructure of the village
The infrastructure is not very developed in the village - it's a small town with a couple of shops, one cafe and one hotel. But here there is a gas station - the only one for 100 kilometers. So, you can only fill up the gasoline reserves here
Improvement in the "Open South" program.
Excursion tours for children and adults.
Elton hotels
Elton every year hosts so many tourists that they would have accumulated a few such villages. They all need places to sleep. Therefore, the local hotel does not lack guests. Moreover, this is not just a hotel, but a whole sanatorium.
The cost of living starts from 800 rubles per day. You can stay for a few nights or choose a treatment course for 10-14 days. In this case, you will receive regular meals, treatment and excursions.
Fans of "wild" recreation can stop at the shore of the Chapaevsky pond - this is the only fresh water reservoir in the area. Here you can break a whole camp, only you need to agree in advance with the guards of the natural park. If you are a complete extreme, you can put a tent even in the steppe. There is definitely no need to beg.
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| Hotel RING from 3 300 rub Volgograd Krasnoznamenskaya Str., 25 B | ||
| City Hotel from 4 500 rubles Volgograd Rokossovskogo Street 62 | Grand Imperial Hunting Hotel & Spa from 3 800 rubles Volgograd Rokossovskogo Street 7 | |
| Hampton by Hilton Volgograd Profsoyuznaya from 2 800 rubles Volgograd Profsouznaya Street 13 | Yuzhny Hotel from 3 000 rubles Volgograd Raboche-Krestyanskaya Street 18 | Volgo-Don Hotel from 2 310 rubles Volgograd Fadeeva Street 47 |
| Stalingrad Hotel from 3 100 rub Volgograd Rokossovskogo Street 102 | Tsaritsynskaya Hotel from 1 400 rubles Volgograd Barrikadnaya 1G | Start Hotel from 650 rubles Volgograd Gramshi Ulitsa 4 |
Treatment in Elton
Elton for a hundred years is known as an excellent balneological resort. At the beginning of the 20th century, only wealthy people came here. Here, clean air, breathe easily and freely, the whole body feels full of strength and vigor.
Today, different layers of the population can afford treatment on Lake Elton. Fortunately, tours are inexpensive - the average rate will cost from 15 thousand rubles. They treat diseases of joints, musculoskeletal system, skin, digestive organs, nervous and genitourinary systems, respiratory organs, etc.
Elton Health Resort operates all year round. The main means of treatment - the brine of a mineral lake, mud and water from sources. Rapa is used for baths, and mud is used for appliqués. The treatment uses only fresh material. Agree, it's much nicer to sit half an hour in fresh mud than in yesterday's.
By the way, they say that earlier when the sanatorium was working the Museum left crutches - they were forgotten by the people who passed here the course of treatment. For a few years, crutches have accumulated so much that the museum had to be shut down.
- Get in the dirt - before the patients on Elton were treated by burial in the mud. The person himself can not go deep underground, so you should ask your friends to put them deeper into you. An hour later, you can go to the surface and wash in the lake.
- See the tulips of Gesner - these flowers bloom by the end of April, are a symbol of the village and the lake. They are listed in the Red Book. Rarely can anyone see the flowering of the tulips, because they can be found only in the deserted places of the region.
Entertainment, excursions and sights of Eltona
The main sights of Elton, in addition to the lake, is the national park and ethnographic center.
National Nature Park " Elton "
This park was created in the early 2000s for the protection of nature and cultural monuments of Elton. Its main attractions are Lake and Ulagan Mountain. Here you can meet many unusual plants, some of them are under protection.
And in the park, besides the wonderful nature, there are many cultural and historical objects. For example, ancient burials, which are periodically found by archaeologists. Or the remnants of settlements of salt miners who worked on the lake in the 17th and 19th centuries
Ulagan
Ulagan - mountain with a salt dome, located in the park "Eltonsky". It consists of different layers, the eldest appeared in the Jurassic period.
Every year Ulagan grows by several millimeters due to the addition of salt. Walking along it, you can find various fossils, for example, ancient mollusks, and the shell of the griffey. From the top of the mountain you can see a beautiful view of the lake and the national park
Altyn-nur
One of the main attractions of Elton is the ethnographic center "Altyn-Nur". This is a real find for historians and art historians. The center tells about the culture of two great nations - Russian and Kazakh. How they lived together and separately for many centuries, how they lived and divided the land.
In addition to the excursion, the center offers camel riding and real Kazakh dishes. They need to be tried - when will there be an opportunity to get to the neighboring country?