New Year in Crimea
New Year in Crimea? Why not?
New Year holidays in the Crimea can be warm and cold, with sun, rain and snow - after all, different climatic zones make themselves felt. Hope for good weather and pack your bag!
An unforgettable trip will help you organizeIvan KovalenkoA Crimean local guide who conducts individual excursions around the peninsula by car and/or minibus.
On the trip, you should take comfortable waterproof shoes, a warm hat and scarf. Let the jacket and pants be windproof and waterproof. What about an evening dress or a dress? New Year's Eve after all.
Rest on the peninsula can be made original, not like the bustling and hot summer holidays.
In winter, there are no crowds of people and huge queues to museums, there are no traffic jams on the roads.
You can get to the end point of the route in Crimea with comfort and without problems. In his own car - through the Kerch bridge.
By train - from December from Moscow and St. Petersburg to the peninsula will go the first passenger trains "Tavria" (the passage Moscow - Simferopol coupe will cost 2966 rubles, in the SV - from 9952 rubles). From St. Petersburg to Simferopol, a seat-card ticket costs from 3.5 thousand rubles, in a compartment - from 3906 rubles.
By plane - from major cities of Russia there are convenient flights to the new airport of Simferopol (tickets from Moscow in early December and the second half of January cost 4-5 thousand rubles, from Yekaterinburg 8-9 thousand rubles, on the New Year a little more expensive).
In winter, hotels and hotels significantly reduce the cost of living, there is almost individual service in cafes and restaurants, and there is no summer hype, as well as prohibitively high prices.
In the cold season, you can swim in the pools of hotels and sanatoriums, there to be noted in the solarium or visit medical and cosmetic procedures. Of course, fans of extreme sports can find an instructor to dive in cool sea water.
On the embankment of Yalta, Sevastopol, Alushta, Gurzuf, Balaklava and other cities, you can walk and breathe therapeutic sea air, then have a snack of freshly caught mackerel, mullet, taste oysters or fried rapans, without queues and stampede buy local fragrant sweets, and, if weather permits, go for a sea trip and / or fishing.
In December-January on the Black Sea coast is often relatively warm, the nature of the climate is subtropical and Mediterranean. In Yalta, Foros, Alushta, Alupka, it rains, and snow, if it falls on palm trees, then in a few hours or days it will melt.
An excellent option for a rainy day is a wine or tasting tour with a visit to the production: in the New World, Massandra, Sevastopol, the villages of Almond and Solnechnogorsk.
In the steppe Crimea from December to February is almost snowless, the average temperature in winter is 2C. -3 C, but frosts from -5 C to -15 C do not surprise anyone, and if you add to them a strong wind, you get the weather with a very harsh nature.
What to see in the cold season in the steppe or plain Crimea? Connoisseurs of history may be interested in a whole gallery of ancient sacred places on the peninsula. Petroglyphs of the Abuzlar tract, discovered by scientists in 1925 (their age is 800 or 1000 years), Petroglyphs of the Serpent beam, Petroglyphs on Yanykh-Syrt, dolmens in Alimova beam, Bakhchisarai menhir (a vertically standing stone that served for astronomical purposes) beams of Bogaz-Sala, menhirs in the Baidar valley, Tash-Jorgan dolmens.
One of the year-round entertainment in the Crimea is a trip to interesting caves, the air temperature in them is constant, kept at levels from + 10 C to + 12 C. The most popular tours are in Emine-Bair-Khosar, Marble, Kizil-Koba, Soldier, Geophysical, Three Eyes.
In the mountains of Crimea, the climate is moderately cold, humid. Each slope is marked by the nature of the weather, because they are exposed to different winds. The air temperature can vary from December to February from + 10 C to -10 C, during these months the slopes of Ai-Petri, Babugan-Yayla, Chatyr-Dag, Demerdzhi are avalanche dangerous.
The winter peninsula can be comfortably seen from the window of a warm hotel, another option is to walk snow-covered trails, and discover a completely different Crimea, not the same as in summer.
To participate in the ascent to the top of Eklizi-Burun mountain (1527 m), take part in a walk to the Kara-Tau ridge, and conquer one of the three peaks - Tai Koba mountain (1262 m), Kara-Tau mountain (1220 m), Takya Tepe mountain (1253 m), see the sharp rocks in the Haphal gorge, walk in the morning or evening fog in the Ghost Valley on Demerji.
On Ai-Petri snow usually lies from November to the end of March. There are suitable conditions for skiing, snowboarders and freeriders. If you take a chance, and go to the top with an overnight stay, then, provided the sky is clear, you can admire the sea and night Yalta from the height of Ai-Petrinskaya yayla.
The Angara Pass is a key place in hiking in the surrounding area: from it tourists begin to climb Chatyr-Dag and go hiking on the slopes of Demerdzhi.
For lovers of winter entertainment, the Angara Pass is well known: families with children come here for snow and slides with their sleds and ice caps (they can also be rented), snowboarders and skiers go to the equipped tracks, who want to rent snowmobiles. For all those who wish, horse riding is available.
In Bakhchisarai, travelers are waiting for mysterious and unique monuments of the Middle Ages - "cave towns" - Chufut-Kale on the Burunchak Plateau; Eski-Kermen, Cherkes-Kermen Balka; Tepe-Kermen; Shuldan Cave Monastery; Kachi-Kalion.
Climbers can travel to the Crimean peninsula in winter to hone climbing skills or discover new rocky areas. A popular point of attraction is Bakhchisarai, since in the cold season you can find sectors located in the sun and sheltered from the wind (and in the summer, on the contrary, to climb in the saving shadow).
This article is just a small list of things you can do in Crimea for the New Year holidays. Experiment, try to see another winter, and perhaps such trips will become traditional.