Athos Cave - one of the largest caves in the territory of the Republic of Abkhazia. Located in the interior of the Iberian mountains, the cave is a massive karst cavity whose volume is approximately 1 million cubic meters. Athos Cave millions of years to hide its secrets and has been studied relatively recently - in 1961

It has long been the attention of the residents of New Athos attracted a huge failure on the slope of the Iberian mountains. Large well with loses in the dark steep walls was named the bottomless pit. I go down there no one dared. The first attempt to descend into the black mouth of the cave took a local resident Givi Smir. And in 1961, the whole expedition was organized to investigate this mysterious place, resulting in the underground was discovered a miracle.

For visitors to New Athos cave was opened in 1975. The length of the route in the cave is about 2 km away. The route passes through the halls 8: Anakopiya, Narta, caving, Deer corallite gallery gallery Ayuhaa, Aphertsa and Apsny room. Many rooms are not yet available for unprepared tourists.

The biggest room is the New Athos cave room Muhajirs, and the highest - Speleologists room. Its length is 260 m, width - about 75 meters, height - 50 m. Speleologists Hall - is the third largest cave hall in Abkhazia. The most beautiful halls of the New Athos cave considered halls named Givi Smir, Geliktitovy grotto Anakopiya and corallite gallery.

The main attraction of the room Anakopiya - Lake Anatolia. His area of ​​1000 square meters, and the depth - 26 m. Also, there is a beautiful blue lake. Hall Geliktitovy grotto used for scientific papers. He has a huge amount helictites different colors and amazing stone waterfall Apsny height - 20 m and width - 6 m.

In the New Athos cave has four entrances, three of them are artificial, as well as specially made from the floor Vanishing Lake Drainage Gallery. The only natural entrance through which researchers originally came into the cavity bottomless pits, located in the ceiling of the hall Anakopiya.