Glade, Crimea. Crimean glades Chalet Crimean glade

  - an amazing corner on the globe. Millions of tourists annually come to the peninsula to return to this mysterious and charming place again. The Crimea has a well-developed leisure infrastructure, both beach and active. Tourists with various interests find in Crimea a lot of opportunities to spend their vacations in an entertaining and useful way. The peninsula is beautiful at any time of the year, you won’t be bored.

Tourists with various interests find in Crimea a lot of opportunities to spend their vacations in an entertaining and useful way - Crimea Travel Guide

  In Russia, many people know the village of Krasnaya Polyana, located near the resort city of Sochi. Today it is a popular holiday destination, which in 2014 will host several competitions in winter sports. Tourists at this time will be warmly welcomed by Villa Uyutnaya in Krasnaya Polyana.

In Crimea, there are also many famous "Polyans". The most famous, perhaps, on the peninsula is the Yalta "Glade of Fairy Tales". This is an open-air museum, which contains characters from childhood fairy tales. The sculptures are made of wood, stone, flowers and other materials.

Visitors to the museum are greeted by heroes from fairy tales about Pinocchio, Mowgli, Snow White, and a dozen other tales. There is also a hotel of the same name on the peninsula, located in a very picturesque place at the foot of the mountains. The owners of the Polyana Skazok Hotel have provided all the amenities for vacationers: cozy rooms, bars, billiards, a swimming pool, a sauna, exercise machines, the possibility of ordering walking tours, horseback riding.

Glade of fairy tales, Evpatoria

Returning to the theme of fairy tales, Yevpatoriya - the famous children's resort, has its own clearing with cartoon characters. This year, the Yevpatoriya glade was updated, several new characters were added, to the delight of young visitors. The Glade of Fairy Tales on the West Coast of Crimea was created more than 70 years ago and was then called the Pushkin Corner. During the war, it was destroyed; a children's corner was restored only in 1954.

On the South Coast there is another famous glade - health resort "Yasnaya Polyana". This resort, the only one on the South Coast, built specifically for parents with children in the treatment area.

It attracts vacationers not only with unique climatic conditions, but also with a large number of historical places and monuments. Sanatorium "Yasnaya Polyana" has an amazing history. In the 1830-40s. the estate “Alexandria” was built on the site of the future sanatorium, where Alexander Golitsyn, a personal friend of Emperor Alexander I, rested. Later the estate passed into the possession of Countess Panina, who was visited by Chekhov, Bunin, Gorky, Chaliapin and others. In 1922, in the building the castle opened a sanatorium for scientists, and since 1947 the sanatorium is called "Yasnaya Polyana". Today it is a wonderful health resort with a well-developed infrastructure for recreation and treatment.

The history of which, however, lasts for centuries.

It is located in the southern part of the peninsula, in the Bakhchisarai district and has less than a quarter of a thousand inhabitants, and at the same time is almost the most interesting place in the whole of Crimea. And the point is not only that it is located among the majestic mountains, in the always picturesque green valley along which the small mountain river Markur flows. This village is located on the territory that was once the mighty principality of Theodoro, with its capital in Mangup-Kale, a very ancient cave city, the remains of which can still be seen in the vicinity of Polyana. Although people chose this inaccessible and rich in fresh water place back in the 8th century, they developed the land here and were engaged in pottery.

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How to get there

To get to Sadyk-Kaya Mountain, on which Mangup is located, is most convenient from Bakhchisarai. If you go by taxi or private car, the journey will take you no more than half an hour - or a little longer on a regular bus that runs to nearby villages. Also, from any resort city you can get to this place along the Yalta-Simferopol highway, turning in the direction of the village of Khmelnitsky and then following the signs. But in any travel agency you will certainly be offered a specialized tour.

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History and attractions of Polyana

The Principality of Theodoro, and originally it was called Doro, was founded in the 13th century by the Greeks who settled in the Crimea, popularizing Orthodoxy and the developed culture of Byzantium here. Gradually it expanded its borders, the population increased, and fortifications were built to protect it. But even this could not save the principality from plunder, over time he was no longer able to fight off numerous enemy invasions and began to decline. But by the 15th century Theodoro entered a new milestone in its development, due to the fact that a group of Mangup princes (descendants of an ancient and very noble Armenian family) were able to consolidate the local nobility and restore the former power of their small state.

At that time, the population of this territory was more than two hundred thousand inhabitants (and this is far from a lot for the Middle Ages, and especially for the Crimea), Orthodoxy was actively preached on its territory, numerous churches were built. It was then that the principality was called Theodoro. But his story was still short-lived, already at the end of the 15th century, the rule of the Ottoman Empire was established here, and the Christian population was gradually eradicated.

Today, the ruins of the family castle of one of the nobles and the remains of an old Orthodox church with a small church cemetery testify to the once magnificent principality.

Unfortunately, at the dawn of the rise of communism, these priceless monuments were not given much importance and literally pebbled away for the construction of collective farm buildings. But, nevertheless, the church in the cave city, carved in the rock, has been preserved, even ancient frescoes were discovered here.

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Mangup Kale

In general, it can be argued that the former capital of Theodoro - Mangup-Kale - nevertheless saved quite well, so even by its ruins you can even judge about its former power. On three sides it is protected by a high steep, and from this absolutely impregnable Sadyk-Kaya mountain, the city is also surrounded by a powerful fortress wall, which is simply impossible to overcome. Here, the grottoes and deep caves, which were created by nature itself, were skillfully perfected by people and arranged in such a way that in case of prolonged deposition they would not feel neither need nor inconvenience. This was especially true for drinking water reserves - in addition to two fairly deep mountain streams to quench the thirst of urban residents, a deep well with spring water was also dug.

Mangup Kale Cave City

When the Turks took possession of the Crimea, they turned the cave city into a real dungeon for captives, the walled-up windows of the buildings confirm this. But Mangup was not a purely defensive structure, judging by the remains of round castle walls, intricate details of the decor, the local princes built their palaces here with a special scale and chic.

Today Mangup-Kale is invariably included in the list of the most popular and frequently visited places on tourist and excursion routes in the mountainous Crimea and is the cultural heritage of the Crimean Autonomous Republic.

Modern Glade is located at the foot of Sadyk-Kaya, and from here, as a rule, they begin to climb the cave city. All conditions have been created for tourists here - shops, several summer cafes work, where you can easily rest and satisfy your hunger by tasting dishes of Crimean Tatar cuisine.

• Where to stay:   Big Yalta is a storehouse of resorts that have been loved since Soviet times: vacationers are waiting for the sanatorium of cozy Alupka and ancient Gurzuf, picturesque Koreiz and the bohemian Livadia, charming Mishor and pompous Foros, as well as the beautiful Yalta, sung by poets and artists. Fans of silence makes sense to stay in the chamber Gaspra, Katsiveli, Nikita or Polyana. The swallow's nest will captivate with amazing views, Massandra - “a laughing component”, and Simeiz - with bizarre rocks. Something special can be found among others.

The length is 17-18 km; Duration! - 1.5 days; height differences of 600-640 m.

The route is recommended for people who have minimal experience hiking the weekend with an overnight stay in the field. You can get to the shelter by regular bus to the village of Krepostnaya, and then by passing transport or on foot 10 km to the side along the village of Planicheskaya Shchel along a dirt road.

The starting point of the pedestrian part of the route is * the tourist shelter Krymskaya Polyana. Built in . in the mid-seventies in connection with the development of the country's first planned tourist route for high school students “On the partisan paths of the Kuban”. In the beginning, frame tents were installed here, the territory was gradually developed, modern two-story cottages grew up, stationary kitchens and dining rooms were equipped, electricity was supplied, etc. Now the shelter can accommodate 350-400 people at a time. There are two volleyball courts, foot-

diseased field, sports and tourist equipment, bathhouse, dance room d.

From the campfires located in the depths of the shelter, into the forest, in a westerly direction, the path leaves up the stream to the Crimean pass. Gradually, the valley narrows and takes on the character of a gorge. The stream dries in the summer, the rest of the year the watercourse here is constant. It is easy, free. After about 20 minutes, increasing steepness begins to be felt. The trail goes now to the right bank, then to the left. Often, fallen trees block the road, but a marked planned path does not allow one to go astray (marking will accompany us only to the Crimean pass). The pass mark is located in the area of \u200b\u200bthe plot. One of the roads goes south to the Partizansky shelter. We, having passed the plot, descend into the valley of the Solenoy stream, the azimuth direction is 280-285. During the descent, you need to find any of the many animal paths, which will lead in 15-20 minutes to the Salty. In total, from the shelter to Solyony 3.5 km, 1 h 10 min - 1 h 20 min. A road runs along the left bank of the stream. We must cross it and begin to climb one of the buttresses, stretching to the southern, steep slopes of Sober-Bash. At first, the steepness is quite significant, then the crest is flattened and turns from the southwest to the west. Here you can feel the primordial nature. It’s difficult to move forward - small cotoneaster areas alternate with rugged azalea thickets.

Azalea is yellow, or yellow rhododendron is a shrub up to 3 m high from the heather family. It blooms in May - June. Widely distributed in foothill and mountain forest regions, as well as in the subalpine zone up to 2000 m above sea level, in places it forms more thickets. The leaves of yellow rhododendron contain substances of a glycosidic nature, sterols and tannins. Petals of flowers contain essential oil, which is used in the perfume industry in the production of higher varieties of perfumes. Yellow azalea is a highly poisonous plant, especially flowers and buds. During flowering exudes a stupefying smell that causes a headache.

A hulk of Sober Bash is visible through the thicket.

About an hour after the start of the climb to the buttress, at the highest point, we descend from the ridge, descending towards the Duly Slit, to the overgrown plot. After 5 minutes we leave from it to the "sober round the world" - the old ring road around the mountain. If we go along it to the south-west - we fall again into the basin of the salt stream. We are going in the opposite direction. We continue to traverse the eastern slopes of Sober Bash. There are individual giant specimens of oaks in several girths ...

Not far from the fork, before going up to the summit of Sober Bash, the "round the world" leads, after 25-30 minutes, to a turn to the top. The main thing is not to miss this turn. It is located opposite a burnt tree with a hollow, 200-250 meters before reaching the Duleva Shchel brook.

There is very little left, but these are the most difficult hundreds of meters. A long, very steep climb, uncharacteristic for logical, “smart” forest paths. But we have no choice. Alpenstocks (a long stick with a pointed tip) will be very handy. The steepness of the trail increases to 30-35. You need to go in a dense group, with an interval between the participants of 0.5-1 m, not stopping, evenly, at a slower pace. Steps through 200-250 to do "minutes" - short stops for rest. Hold the Alpenstock in the “cane” position, that is, in one hand, like an ordinary stick.

In a beech-maple forest 500 meters from the top there is a spring, one of the sources of the Duly Slit. In general, there are many similar springs on the slopes of Sober Bash. Some of them are forgotten and abandoned, others (Rimba or Kalina, for example) are used to quench thirst. Cross the mountain meadow flat top. In the sixties and seventies, this peak in winter was a place of pilgrimage for Krasnodar tourists and skiers. Gradually, the Sober-Bash ski resort lost its position, giving the palm to the more promising ski slopes - on Lysaya mountain (near Chilipsi station), Semiglava mountain, the dam of the Krasnodar reservoir.

But back to our route. Passing two

huge, gently sloping glades, through a small strip of forest we reach the highest point. A geodetic point and a bust of V.I. Lenin were established here.

Much has been written, told, and composed songs about Mount Sober-Bash. We give only the azimuths of directions to the uplift from the top: Medvezhya Mountains - 300, Ubin-Su - 253, Papay - 243, Pschada-230, -Bolshoy Athena - 170, Baraniy Rog - 145, shelter “Crimean Glade” -128, the highest point Pshaf ridge - 93. A circular panorama from the highest elevation of Sober Bash does not open. Directions to the northern rumbas can be seen from other open points of the mountain.

In total, 4-5 running hours were spent on the ascent from the shelter, the climb amounted to about 650 m. We return to the "circumnavigation" along the ascent path. If we proceed from the fact that the time spent on the descent, relative to the time spent on the ascent, is two times less at the same distance, then we will overcome this path in 25-30 minutes (50 minutes - G h were spent on the ascent ). Alpenstocks will be needed again. With the feeling of winners, we’ll go down to the place of the big halt along the “gathering round the world” - first, before the intersection of the trail with the Duly Slit, and then you need to climb a little (100 m) into a small tubercle with a forest. There is a flat area, a fireplace, neatly folded firewood.

After lunch or a snack we make an excursion to the waterfalls. There are more than twenty of them in the Muzzle, large and small. Just above the trail, one of them falls from a 5-meter ledge. But the most remarkable waterfall - Utenny - 300 meters below the trail. Over its entire 11-meter height stands a giant limestone-sandstone formation. When there is a lot of water, the noise of a waterfall is heard for half a kilometer. Around grow oak, ash, dogwood. At the bottom edge of the ledge is a well-developed pool. In hot sunny weather, a tired traveler will be happy to freshen up in its water surface. From the place of halt we go back to the shelter in a shorter way. The reference point is a wide and gentle forest ridge, stretching east-southeast, to the Salt Sole. After 30 minutes we leave to the destroyed dolmen. It is not described in the literature. It is only known that there were several dozens of dolmens in the area of \u200b\u200bSober Bash. Some of them were found by students of an agricultural institute headed by a tireless nature researcher V. Likhachev. Here is what the famous Kuban archaeologist Professor N.V. Anfimov writes about dolmens:

“Literally, dolmen is a stone table. And indeed, in the west of France, in Brittany, dolmens look like huge stone tables. Dolmens of the North-West Caucasus are somewhat different. A typical dolmen form is a dolmen composed of four massive stone slabs and covered with a fifth slab. Plates are carefully weighed, and grooves are made in the longitudinal walls to strengthen the transverse plates ... In the front wall, as a rule, an oval or round hole was made, which was closed with a stone mushroom-shaped sleeve (cork) ... Dolmens have long attracted the attention of the local population. Poetic legends and legends were formed about them, which were passed from mouth to mouth, from generation to generation and survived to this day. According to Adyghe legend, in ancient times a tribe of dwarfs and giants lived in the mountains. Dwarfs did not have houses, and if they did not have enough strength to build their own homes. That’s why they were exposed to all kinds of hardships of a homeless life: they were wet in the rain, they froze, in winter they were covered with snow. Giants took pity and decided to build houses for dwarfs. The giants were so strong that each of them could cut down a huge slab of stone and, having shouldered it, brought it to the place of construction. Of these four plates, laid out in the form of a square box, a house was made up, covering itself from above with a fifth plate. Instead of two rays ... in the front plate, the giants punched round holes through which the dwarfs rode astride the hares. And therefore Adygs called dolmens "spyun", which means dwarf houses. The dwarf tribe has long died out, and there are no giants, and the dwarf houses are still standing. That is the legend.

The Russian population ... called the dolmens "heroic huts." In fact, these are funerary structures, a kind of crypts, related mainly to the second half of the 2nd-2nd millennium BC, i.e. having 3-, 4-, 5-thousand years ago. They are

they can be found alone, in small groups or form large clusters ... As a rule, dolmens are always located on the surface, but they are also buried in the ground ... ”!

"Our" dolmen is also tiled. In all likelihood, he, dug halfway into the ground, was destroyed in the postwar period. Only one plate turned out to be intact (2X2 m). The second is split near the inlet. The diameter of the hole is 25-30 cm. The facade of the dolmen was turned southward, towards the lowering of the ridge. Traces of human processing are visible on the plates.

Continuing the route, we descend from the ridge to the watercourse of the Duly Slit. Adhering to the azimuth of 120-130, after 1.5-2 km we get to the already familiar stream Solyony. You can return from it in two ways. The first - on the original path through the Crimean pass. The second option is somewhat more feminine, but more interesting. From the crossroads of markings, go along the upper left path: After crossing the lintel, we traverse the southern slopes of a height of 341 m. A 20-minute walk to the shelter opens a good panorama of the Afipsa valley and the surrounding uplifts - Korabelny, Krepost, Krasny, Shirokiy ridges. Far in the south, in the blue haze you can see the regular cone of the Big Afips mountain.

Tourist recreation center "Krymskaya Polyana" "Crimean Polyana" - a tourist base specializing in the provision of outdoor activities. Located in the upper reaches of the Afips River in the Seversky district of the Krasnodar Territory. The unique natural landscape of the base allows vacationers to diversify their leisure activities by climbing to Planic Rocks, excursions to the spring Quick, Red Rocks. Cozy two-story houses with rooms with a capacity of 6 and 8 beds will welcome vacationers with pleasure. After a day full of events and impressions, guests will be invited to relax and take a steam bath in a real Russian sauna, and barbecue lovers will be able to test their culinary skills on the barbecue facilities provided to them. Evening gatherings near a huge bonfire and guitar songs are also popular at the base. Equipped places for camping, equipped areas for sporting events (football and volleyball fields). Every year, the Region 93 youth rally is held here under the patronage of the governor of the Krasnodar Territory. The main specialization of the base employees is work with children. Every year, at a camp site, he rests in summer camps for children from many cities of Russia. Experienced instructors accompany children on hiking trips, help to cook food at the stake, learn to survive in conditions close to extreme. The team spirit, the ability to achieve goals, and managerial skills are instilled in children. And the stories told by the flickering flame of the evening bonfire remain in the hearts of young tourists for a long time. Enjoy the splendor of the mountain scenery, crystal clear air and just relax in the "Crimean meadow". An unforgettable experience for all vacationers is guaranteed! Location and Territory Krymskaya Polyana is located in the headwaters of the Afips River in the Seversky District of the Krasnodar Territory, in a mountainous and wooded area, 7.5 km from the village of Krepostnaya. The area of \u200b\u200bthe base is 3, 9 hectares. Accommodation Cozy two-story houses with several rooms with a capacity of 6 and 8 beds will be happy to welcome vacationers. A common room with satellite TV, a shared kitchen with stoves and a set of dishes. Meals Cooking - independent in a shared kitchen with stoves and a set of dishes; on the grill or bonfire from their own products. For groups of 20 people and more, cooking is possible by the base cook according to a custom menu (for an additional fee). Baza Beach is located on the headwaters of the Afips River. The beach is rocky. Services - satellite TV, - parking, - kitchen with a gas stove and a set of dishes, refrigerators, - iron, - outdoor shower, - Russian bath. Tours and special offers. Weekend rest. Paintball. Corporate leisure. Organization of accommodation on the basis of participants in visiting festive and business events, competitions, hiking. Children's tourism. Excursions to the Planic Rocks, to the source Quick, to the Red Rocks. Additional information: Animals: pets allowed. Documents: Passport. Checkout time: Hour of arrival at the base. Duration of arrival: no restrictions. Water supply: water from an artesian well. The nature of the functioning: year-round action. Cost of accommodation Price level: economical, average May-September: daily stay 100 rubles. per person, overnight - 200 rubles. October-April: 350 rubles. per day per person The price includes: Accommodation, use of sports fields, the beach, sports and kitchen equipment, awnings, barbecue facilities, satellite TV. Discounts: Children under 6 years old - free of charge, leader of a group of tourists from 15 people - free of charge. Address: Krasnodar Territory, Seversky District, 7.5 km from the station Fortress