Interesting places of nature in Georgia. Vokluse in Georgia. Vokluse Bertha (Olyang).

In volcanic areas, where there are widespread series of alternating dense or crisscrossed lavas and unconsolidated rocks. Often there are lava springs with a powerful flow rate. These are the lava vokluzas. There are especially many of them in the mountainous regions of South Georgia, in particular on the Tsalka, Javakheti, Gomareti, Dmanisi and other plateaus.

In the Tsalka valley in the village of Berta (formerly called Oliango), at an altitude of 1600 meters above sea level in the yard of a medieval church one of the most numerous karst springs in Georgia springs to the surface. Many tourists come to see this natural monument. But it is not so much the spring that attracts visitors as its strange inhabitants: in the stone pool, which is arranged at the outlet of the spring, "miraculous" trout have been swimming since time immemorial. Despite the fact that the fish are free to swim down the flowing stream into the Ktsia River, they never leave their abode. Many pilgrims come to see the trout: they believe that if they touch the fish, they are sure to be healed of their ailments.

It is known that the Berta basin existed until 1829, that is, until the Russian general Paskevich after the Russian-Turkish war began to settle these places by Orthodox Greeks and Armenians, previously living in Turkey. Tsalka Greeks, who were called Urums, diligently monitored the churches and monasteries located in Tsalka. The "miraculous" spring had its own Greek master. He decided to move to Greece. Before leaving, he appealed to the Patriarch of Georgia to send someone to Oligano, since real miracles were being performed there and he could not leave these places unattended. It was with the blessing of the Catholicos-Patriarch that the first women's and men's monasteries were opened here.