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Excursions About Crimea

Please, survey the options of sightseeing excursions listed below and select the ones that mostly suit your group's interests and desires. You can choose to visit any of these places by bus or on foot. These excursion routes are suggested as one-day trips, but we can integrate any combination of these excursions into your Crimea tour itinerary. Obtain the taste of real hiking while walking along mountain passes or enjoy the comfort of buses, boats and cable car when exploring the beautiful nature of mountains and the seaside. Short boat trips, bicycle ride, backpacker's mountain walks, stay in tourist tent camps, and horseback ride - all can be included based on your group's preferences.  Please contact us to discuss the details of the tour design.

Nature Preserves and Parks of Crimea

Nature Preserves - Nature Parks - Karadag - Chatyrdag - Marble Cave on Chatyrdag - Askaniya Nova.

Botanic Excursions About Crimea

From Krasnolesye village to Chatyrdag Mountain (best time to go is 3-rd and 4-th weeks of July)

Sokolinoye village and area - to Suyur-Kaya Mountain, Bolshoy Canyon (best time to go is 3-rd and 4-th weeks of August)

Sokolinoye village - Ai Petri Mountain - Alupka - Yalta  (best time to go is 1-st and 2-nd weeks of August)

South-East Crimea

Feodosia - Planenrskoye - Koktebel.
Schebetovka - Karadag.
Boat trip around Karadag to the Mertvaya Bay.
Sudak - Novyi Svet - Belogorsk - Staryi Krym.
Kerch - Etligen (Georgiyevskoye village) - Yeni-Kale - Taman.
Kurortnoye - Nozhezamorskoye - Kazantip - Schelkino - Lenino

South Coast of Crimea. Yalta

Gurzuf - Artek - Nikita - Nikitskiy Botanic Gardens - Massandra - Yalta - Around Yalta - Uchan-Su waterfalls - Ai-Petri - Bolshoy Canyon - Livadia - Oreanda - Swallow's Nest - Miskhor - Koreiz - Gaspra - Ai-Todor - Alupka - Simeiz - Katsiveli - Ponizovka - Parkovoye - Mellas - Foros.

Mountains pass from Simferopol to Alushta

Simferfopol - Perekopsky Val Pass - Alushta - Rabochiy Ugolok - Utyos - Partenit - Ayu-Dag Mountain - Demerdzhi - Dzhur-Dzhur Waterfall - Solnechnogorskoye - Malorechenskoye - Rybachye - Morskoye - Privetnoye.

Sevastopol and the South-West of Crimea

To visit the places listed below, you can take bus trips between towns and stay overnight in a coastal guest house and enjoy continuous bathing on the gold sand beaches all the way along the Yevpatoria coastal line.

Sevastopol - Sapun Gora - Balaklava - Yevpatoria - Monayki - Nikolayevka - Shtormovoye - Popovka - Chernomorskoye - Mezhvodnoye - Portovoye - Saki.

Boat Trips Along the Coast
From Yalta to Foros
From Yalta to Koktebel
Boat trip around Karadag to Mertvaya Buhta

Other Excursions
To Zmeinaya Cave
To Zuiskiy Forest, to Partisanskiy memorial.
To Underground Fortress of Adzhimushkay

Alushta - Nikitsky Botanic Gardens — Massandra Dolphins show - Yalta.

Palaces and parks of the Southern Coast.
Massandra Palace - museum — Livadia Palace — Uchan-Su Waterfall - Ai-Petri -Vorontsov's Palace — Foros Church — Swallows Nest — Yalta in the night.

Alushta - Yalta — Botkin's Path — Yalta.
A one-day recreational walking excursion from Uchan-Su waterfall along the slopes of the amphithearte of the Main Chain of Crimean Mountains passing the picturescue mountainous forest down to Yalta, along a path which was founded by famous Russian doctors Botkin and Shtangeev in the end of 19-th century. Be sure to have comfortable shoes and clothes.

Learn about history of Crimean spiliology with visiting of the most famous and well-explored Crimean caves — Krasnaya (Red Cave), Mramornaya (Marble Cave) and Emine-Bair-Hasar Cave. The height of the halls inside caves is up to 50m; stalactites, virgin cave rocks and halls with inner ponds of different colors. Aqualang diving into the cave ponds is available at additional request. In the end of the excursion, a walk about the upper plateau of Chatyr-Dag mountain, about an old   forest, have dinner cooked on the open fire. Be sure to have comfortable shoes and warm clothes (temperature insode caves is about 12 degrees C).

Sevastopol - Bakhchi-Saray - Chufut-Kale — Bolshoy Kanyon — Ai-Petri - Yalta.
Visiting Bakhchi-Saray means traveling deep into the historical roots of Crimean peninsula. You will see layers of history, from visiting ancient Scyphian settlements to Tatar Khan's Mediaeval Palace and  surrounding lands, and to visiting a currently working Orthodox Svyato-Uspensky Men's Monastery. Take wondnerful  treatment in waters of the holy water sourse in the monastery. The water of the sourse cures illnesses, clears sins and prevents aging. 
Be sure to have comfortable shoes, hats or cloth to cover heads (for women) and glasses for holy water.

Two day mountains trip from Sevastopol to Yalta.
Sevastopol — Foros Church — Baydarskiy Pass — Mangup-Kale Cave town  - Sokolinoye - Bakhchi-Saray — Khan's Palace — Chufut-Kale — Bolshoy Kanyon of Crimea - Ai-Petri — Cable Car - Yalta. You will learn history of Mediaeval Crimea, see unique cave town of Mangup Christian state. Spend night in a guest house with simple but sufficient conditions of stay.
Be sure to have comfortable shoes, hats to cover your head against sun in summer time, some water and snack food and a small comfortable backpack.

Alushta — Crimea Nature Preserve — Massandra (visiting museum-palace of Alexander II included) — night Yalta. The trip to Crimea Nature Preserve includes visiting trout  breeding farm  - Kozmo-Demyanovsky Monastery with diving into holy water sourse  — Romanov's road lying at the height of over 1000m above the sea level. Visit Rotunda of Winds and learn about mountain peaks Ayu-Dag, Kyzyl-Tash, Gurzuf. See panorama of Yalta from highest nountain peaks, visit Grushevaya Meadow on the mountain plateau.

Tavrida Holy Places:
Alushta - Simferopol - Belogorsk - Alushta. Visit nature landscape preserve — Ak-Kaya mountain, Saint Paraskeva Monastery, touch holy water of natural water sourse in the monastery — visit Armenian Church monastery Surb-Hach.

Sudak and Novy Svet in one day.
Visit Sudak Fortress, the relic juniper grove. Take a boat trip to Galitsin's grotto, take time to swim on the Tsar's beach, visit a wine tasting hall of Golitsin's champaigne and sparkling wines plant.
Be sure to have comfortable shoes, bathing costumes, cups for wine.

Alushta — Chaban-Kule Fortress - Arpaty - Solnechnogorsk.
Wine tasting at «Sedmoye Nebo» hall at Alushta winery plant. Learn about Mediaeval history of Genouess period in Tavrida,  visit feudal estate of De Guasko brothers, marvel the beauty of cascade waterfalls of Arpata.
Be sure to have comfortable shoes, bathing costumes.

Sevastopol and Balaklava.
City-hero Sevastopol  witnessed two heroic defences. Malakhov Kurgan - Panorama, Sapun-Gora - Diorama. Grafskaya pristan' and Severnaya bukhta. Visit Balaklava — the submarines museum, a boat trip, swimming on the beach.
Be sure to have comfortable shoes, bathing costumes.

Alushta — Pushkino (Massandra wine can be purchased here) - Gurzuf — Ayu-Dag mountain — Artek.
Take a 4-hour walking trip to the foot of Ayu-Dag mountain. Walk about Artek children's recreational resort complex. Visit museum of Soviet cosmonautics to learn the most interesting facts about space industry of the former Soviet Union. Walk about Pushkin's park on the territory of the complex, visit Shalyapin's grotto, attend museum of Russian most famous writer A.Chekov,  museum of Pushkin,

Yalta - Uchan-Su Waterfall - Ay-Petri - Bolshoy Canyon - Yalta.
Ay-Pteri can be mounted on foot or by cable car (up to 1234 meters above the sea level); Bolshoy Canyon will welcome those who are brave enough to dive into the cold natural stream that has legendary popularity of keeping people from aging. You can take a hourse ride about the mountains.
Please make sure you have comfortable shoes, swinning suits and warm clothes.

Chatyrdag in the evening.
Visit unique caves (Mramornaya and Emine-Bair-Hosar cave). Stay in the mountains to watch the sunset. Take a horse ride. Have dinner around the open fire in the "Barsuchya Polyana" guest house.
Please make sure you have comfortable shoes and warm clothes.

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