Geyser Falls, Sotera Valley

Geyser Falls - on the Alaka River (the middle course of the Sotera River). Before approaching the Geyser Falls, the trail will begin to gain height, and the gorge really resembles something Haphal, only a small Haphal. There are many such Haphals in Crimea. You will approach the Geyser Falls on the right bank. It's much higher upstream. There's a big playground in front of the falls. You just need to see the waterfall and you will understand why it has such a name: the water sawed a thin gutter in the stone wall. At the bottom, it ends with a small bath. The waterfall itself, falling from a 10-meter height, hits a rock protruding from below, from which the water bounces up with a rather powerful fountain - that's where the name comes from, very much like a geyser. Stone mushrooms are in the tract of Sotera, and the tract itself is located in the valley of the Sotera River, in its lower reaches. The Sotera River Valley is a unique nature reserve on the southern coast of Crimea, located 16 km east of Alushta. The reserved tract is also famous for the fact that non-man-made stone mushrooms were formed here during a long process of weathering and erosion. Once, instead of “mushrooms”, there were just stone blocks lying on the surface. For many centuries, groundwater constantly undermined the soil, and over time, the lower part of the lump began to resemble the “leg” of the fungus, and the upper part – its “hat”. “Stone mushrooms” still continue to grow. This is due to the processes taking place in the earth’s crust, which, as it were, “pushes” more and more stone formations out of the earth. New, small “fungi” appear, and the existing ones become higher and higher. Unfortunately, “stone mushrooms” are short-lived: constantly some of them collapse, but new and new ones appear nearby.

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