Excellent Highways, Hotels And Sanatoria Holiday seekers wishing to go far afield or those travelling to Europe via the Trans-Siberian route might be glad to hear of good trips in the Caucasus Mountains situated between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea.
On reaching Moscow, travel to which from Shanghai takes about twelve days, one should proceed to Ordjonikidze as a starting place for the trip along the Ossetian Highway, This would take two The cost to Moscow is £14 tot £28, inclusive of food, and depending upon the class of accommodation favoured, From here all tours in any region would cost the visitor from G.$5 to G$15 a day including transport, food, hotel accommodation, and all services.
To view the splendour of the Caucasus one might make the trip along one of the exceheni roads there, that of the Ossetian Highway is suggested, and the starting place would be Ordjonikidze, at the foothills of the Caucasian Range. Formerly known as Vladikavkaz, Ordjonikidze is the centre of the North Ossetian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. It is a large and thriving city with big industrial enterprises.
The military Ossetian Highway begins at Alagir, 50 kin. by motor from Ordjenikidze, From here the traveller sets foot on the famous military highway which stretches for 240 kin. right across the Caucasian Range, southward to Georgia,
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