3-day hiking tour in Crimea with private guide

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Novyi Svet & Sudak + cave towns & monasteries + the Grand Canyon of Crimea. Program 2010

Short description of tour:

Accommodation: spend two nights in two different houses of inhabitants. One night in Bakhchisarai and another in village near a bottom of Grand Canyon.
Food: Home made dinners and breakfasts.
What to see: Novyi Svet, Genoese fortress in Sudak, Khan's Palace in Bakhchisarai, Cave town Eski-Kermen, Active orthodox cave monastery, The Grand Canyon of Crimea.
Price: 405 Euro total for 2 persons all-included: accommodation, 3-times meals, entrance fee to nature reserves, museums, vehicle, my guiding. (if you're more in number, than 2, it's only + 110 Euro for each next person). We start this tour in Yalta and in the end we comeback to Yalta.

Day 1 Bays of Novyi Svet & Sudak

Novyi Svet is a small resort on South-Eastern coast of Crimea in about 10km. from Sudak. The sea coast here is one of the most magnificent coastal view of Crimean peninsula.

Yalta → Coastal road Yalta - Alushta - Sudak → short walk near Novyi Svet → Genoese fortress in Sudak → road to Simferopol and Bakhchisarai → House of inhabitants in Bakhchisarai

Time: on foot is near 3 hours. Distance on foot is 8km.

Church on road Alushta - Sudak: Church on the road Alushta - Sudak

Novyi Svet: Novyi Svet. Crimea

Sudak fortress: Genoa fortress in Sudak

Day 2 Cave towns of Crimea

«Cave towns of Crimea are fragments of lost civilization, mute witnesses of human passions: joy of cunning bargain, the night pray-thanksgiving for healthy children and happiness in marriage... and - sudden fury of Nogai nomads, fire and grief...»

House, where we stayed for a night → Khan's Palace in Bakhchisarai → Active cave monastery (VI - VIII c.) → Cave town Eski-Kermen → House of inhabitants in a small village near Grand Canyon

Time: on foot is 7 hours. Distance on foot is 21 km. Vertical ascent/descent 570 m.

View on monastery from path: Active cave monastery. Crimea

Cave city Eski-Kermen: Cave town Eski-Kermen. Crimea

Main entrance into cave town: Cave town. Crimea. Main entrance

Day 3 The Grand Canyon of Crimea

The Great Canyon of Crimea is a Natural Reserve. Walls of the canyon are about 300 m. above the level of its bottom. Highest cliff is about 900m. above sea level.

House, where we stayed for a night → Main chain of Crimean mountains → Grand Canyon → Yalta

Time: on foot is 6 hours. Distance on foot is 16 km. Vertical ascent/descent 860 m.

Path to canyon: Crimean mountains. Path to Grand Canyon