Journey along the Volga River, visit monastery, natural parks and UFO encounter.

On the second day of the trip you'll have a great opportunity for a picnic with a panoramic view of the Volga River. So after breakfast, stop by the store to buy everything you need for a nature lunch and hit the road!

Every pilgrim and ordinary tourist should definitely visit the Holy Ascension Nunnery, which is located near Volgograd, in Dubovka. It fascinates with its atmosphere, history and legends of miracles. On the territory of the monastery there is a holy spring and a dairy shop with delicious monastic milk, sour cream and cheeses.

According to legend, this well of delicious and cold water was dug on the site of Father John's prayer for a spring of water for the monastery. During Soviet times it was buried, but the nuns restored and ennobled the spring.
Nowadays locals and tourists come to the spring to drink the water and to take it for refreshment and health of mind and body. Water from the spring was taken for biochemical analysis, it turned out to contain a lot of useful substances, especially silver.

Few people know that there is a unique natural monument a hundred kilometers away from Volgograd. Even fewer people have been here. The Alexandrovsky graben is a "gap" almost 2 km wide, which keeps the geological record of the region for the last 50 million years. Here you can find prehistoric sharks' teeth right under your feet, walk barefoot on the Yerginsky sands, sunbathe on the wild beach, gather a bouquet of steppe flowers and herbs or simply have a picnic with a stunning view of the Volga and red cliffs.

Do you believe in paranormal phenomena? Before you is one of the strongest anomalous zones, full of legends about inexplicable ball lightning clusters, UFO landing places, mysterious tunnels and caves. Near the ridge is the Devil's Lair, a place of mystical self-ignition of objects, and the Drunken Grove, where birches with twisted trunks do not grow up, but flow down to the ground. Numerous tourists come here every year to experience the characters of The X-Files.

The final part of the second day of the journey awaits you at an Italian restaurant where the chef and hereditary Italian Mirko Cebrone cooks original recipes of Mediterranean classics - pasta, risotto, polenta, traditional soups and many meat and seafood dishes.
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