Natural salt cave "Khodjaikon"

How to prepare for the disease? Toughening up and following a healthy lifestyle. But sometimes the disease can unexpectedly overtake even the healthiest person. There are special places of nature in Uzbekistan that have healing properties.

We present to your attention the natural salt cave "Khodjaikon". This is an amazing place, which is healthy, unusual and interesting. In total, there are five similar caving resorts in the CIS countries. The main effect of the Khodjaikon cave is achieved due to the concentration of salt and light negative aerones in the air, which has a beneficial effect in the treatment of pulmonological diseases.

The essence of the treatment is to stay in the cave and the mines of the salt mines. The treatment procedure in the cave takes about 2-2.5 hours a day. The unique microclimate, which is achieved with the help of constant temperature and humidity, is the cleanest air environment, without allowing air infection.

The Khojaiskon salt Cave is located on the southeastern slope of the foothills of the Kugitangtau range in the Sherabad district of Surkhandarya region and is located at an altitude of 1,200 meters above sea level. It was opened in 1989 and externally represents a large salt monolith, inside which there is a system of galleries. There are five treatment rooms inside the galleries, which differ from each other in temperature, humidity, pressure and trace elements. The walls of the cave are uniquely covered with a layer of salt from one to three centimeters, and there is a spring containing a saline solution in the passage.

Throughout the year, the air temperature will remain in the range of 7-27 C, relative humidity 50-70%, atmospheric pressure about 700 mmHg. Elements such as magnesium, potassium, iron hydroxide and about twenty other trace elements predominate in the air.

Staying in the Khodjaikon cave will be a useful addition in the treatment of allergic respiratory diseases, acute and chronic bronchitis with prolonged course, asthma, complications of pneumonia, patients with reduced immunity and skin diseases.

In addition, there is a corridor at the end of the salt galleries that leads to the observation deck. There is a magnificent panoramic view of the Surkhandarya Mountains. You can also see salt lakes not far from Khodjaikon.