Gamsutl Ghost Village

Dagestan · Russia

Gamsutl Ghost Village, Russia
Photo: Slavyanochka, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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Best time to go
May to October
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An abandoned stone village clinging to a high ridge in the Dagestani highlands, its houses fused into the rock. Deserted by its last residents, it draws hikers to a haunting mountaintop of empty homes.

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