One of the highest and most remote villages in the Caucasus, at 2,350 m, whose people speak their own language, with stone houses stacked on a hillside. The drive through the gorge from Quba is dramatic.
Stay in homestays. Quba, at the foot of the mountains, has the Jewish village of Krasnaya Sloboda.
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