The Belaya River (Adygea) is well known not only to ordinary tourists, but also to extreme lovers. In summer, short (one-day) rafting tours and competitions are held here.
In addition to the possibility of rafting to the very mouth of the Kishi River, you can also visit the most picturesque places: Rufbago (waterfalls), Hadzhokh gorge, Big
Azish cave. Some rafting routes with high water are considered extremely extreme. However, the White River, even during low tide, is able to “give” a large portion of adrenaline when crossing such serious thresholds as Kisha (first and second), Axes, Hatchets, Theater (fifth category of difficulty). For beginners it is better to start with simple rafting (the route "Granite Gorge - Dakhovskaya village").
The length of the largest aquifer in the region is 260 kilometers. This is the most powerful left-bank tributary of the Kuban, the total fall of which is 2280 meters (an average of about 840 centimeters per kilometer).
The Belaya River receives the main food from the springs and streams of Oshten, Abago, and Fishta. Throughout its length, there are 3460 tributaries (the largest of them are Psheha, Kishi, Kurdzhips, Dakh).
Breaking out of the arms of the mountain stone bowels of Fishta and Oshtena, she rushes to another peak - Chugush, to soon merge with her first tributaries - the Berezova River, Chessa and Kishi.
Starting from the source and up to the village of Hamyshki, the river is accompanied by gorges, deep and narrow.
Having overcome the granite Dakhovsky massif, the Belaya River receives another tributary - the Dakh River (near the village of Dakhovskaya). Then she has to make her way through the narrow gorges
(Khadzhokh gorge), decreasing in width from sixty meters to six, and only having reached the Ammonite Valley, the river temporarily “calms down”.
Now her path lies past the village of Abadzekh, Tula, Maykop, Belorechensk. Bypassing these points, the river flows into the Krasnodar reservoir.
Adygea can be bottled, regardless of the time of year, except winter. The cause of spring floods are
melting glaciers (Oshten, Fisht), autumn - heavy rains.
The Belaya River has another name - Shkhaguashe (Adyghe), and each name has its own, surprisingly beautiful story.
According to one legend, the prince once lived on the river bank, having brought the beautiful Georgian Bella after one of the military campaigns. The prince sought her for a long time, but the girl refused to reciprocate. Once, trying to defend herself, the beauty stabbed the prince with a dagger and rushed to run. Overtaken by the servants, she threw herself into the waters of the river and perished in a seething stream. Since then, the river began to be called Bella, but soon the name changed to a more harmonious - White.
The second name is associated with another, somewhat similar legend. In the upper reaches of the river there once lived a rich old prince. Above his treasures, he valued a beautiful daughter named Shhaguashe (“commanding deer”). Having decided one day to marry his daughter, the prince convened dzhigits and arranged a contest. The winner was to become his son-in-law, provided that, among other things, the princess could please. But Shhaguasha stubbornly remained silent. Even the best, most courageous, most dexterous and most beautiful dzhigits could not melt the heart of the princess.
One night, the prince saw Shhaguashe talking quietly with a young shepherd. The prince contemplated both the rootless shepherd and the beloved daughter. He ordered the servants to sew a couple in a bag and throw it into the White River. But when they threw the bag, the shepherd cut it and saved his beloved. The couple settled in the forest: the princess milked tamed deer, and the shepherd fished.
Years passed. Once, strangers came across a hut trying to get deer milk for the old prince. It was they who said that the dying old man sadly recalls the rebellious Shhaguasha. The princess could not restrain herself and decided to go to her father with her beloved. The prince, having seen his daughter, was delighted and, finally, blessed her choice.
In every story, rebellion is traced, reflecting the nature of the river itself: winding, turbulent and unpredictable.