In Crimea, savages where to stay. Secluded rest in a tent or car camping - which is better? Campsites

For some reason, many families, due to the dollar / euro exchange rate and the inability to go abroad, prefer to completely abandon their vacation at sea. But in vain! You can relax on a very budget, against the backdrop of amazing beautiful nature and with all the necessary, albeit minimal amenities. Take a car with tents or a camper and go to the Crimea! We have carefully selected for you the 10 prettiest campsites on the peninsula, where you are sure to have a great vacation.

Capsel

On the territory there are canteens, toilets, showers, a Wi-Fi zone, a volleyball court. If desired, you can rent housing with amenities. The car camping has its own well-maintained small-pebble beach. There is also a protected town of 3-4 local wooden houses for recreation by the sea and 350 places for tents and cars.
Address
Between capes Meganom and Alchak. Sudak, microdistrict "Shelf", №12
Prices
Place for a car and a small tent - 300 rubles. per day, 1 person - 70 rubles, electricity 80 rubles, hot shower 5 minutes 50 rubles, cool shower for free.
pros
Huge territory, not crowded, wi-fi everywhere, free swings, in recent years it has been quiet.
Minuses
In 2015, there were fewer people, the campsite is somewhat desolated, but it works. Plus or minus - you decide.
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Visiting the Joker

In 2016 in the Crimea, on the territory of Big Alushta, in resort village Malorechenskoye, right on the seashore, a new camping site has begun work. The fenced and guarded area is immersed in greenery. Shady alleys, glades, flower beds create a unique atmosphere and comfort in the campsite. The place where the campsite is located is a recreation center that was abandoned. After reconstruction, today on 2.5 hectares prepared convenient places for tents and caravans, in buildings you can rent an economy class room. There are all conditions for tourists: electricity supply, toilet, water supply, outdoor shower and washbasins, garbage containers. It offers guests a dining room, tennis table, barbecue, large gazebo. Free Wi-Fi throughout.
Address
Alushta, s. Malorechenskoe, st. Vinogradnaya d. 1.1
Price
Parking for motorhomes - from 450 rubles to 950 rubles. Places for tents - from 350 rubles to 500 rubles, depending on the place.
pros
shady, nice
Minuses
Few reviews, new place
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Camping Park Kush-kaya

Camping "Kush-Kaya" is located in the wooded part of the coast - in the natural boundary of Batiliman, which lies under the sheer rock massif of Kush-Kaya. total area camping area is more than 16 hectares. Beautiful place at the foot of the Kush-Kaya mountain, among oaks, juniper trees and flowering poppies, there is a stationary kitchen with electricity, gas and a refrigerator, as well as toilets and showers. Places for setting up tents, comfortable tables for large companies. Nearby there are more than two dozen climbing routes And hiking trails, as well as about eighty tracks for climbing and other obstacles. There are shady glades, and heaps of rocks, and even a stone beach for meditation and spiritual practices.
Address
Laspi, Batiliman, Sevastopol
Price
Accommodation in a tent - 250 rubles per person per day. Rent a tent 200 rub.
pros
Amazing nature, amenities, atmosphere
Minuses
More suitable for mountaineering enthusiasts
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Glade of fairy tales

If you decide to visit Yalta and its environs, we recommend paying attention to the Glade of Fairy Tales campsite. This amazing place with a mountain view, healing healing air and all the benefits of civilization. The campsite is located near Mount Stavri-Kaya and borders on the Yalta Forest Reserve. Here is the cleanest air, junipers and pines grow on the territory of the parking lot, beautiful landscape. And autotourists can live in wooden log cabins or the main building of the hotel. Tents, unfortunately, are prohibited, but a special area is equipped for campers and motorhomes. Autotourists have access to a restaurant, a shower, a swimming pool and other benefits. On the territory of the camping there is an activity for both adults and children; a special playground is equipped for kids. In addition, the Yalta Zoo is located within walking distance from the campsite, so children will definitely like it in the Glade of Fairy Tales.
Price
1350 rub / day for 1 place for car campers
Address
Yalta, st. Kirov, 169
pros
Luxurious infrastructure, swimming pool, nature
Minuses
Far from the sea, with tents not allowed
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Camping Ripario

Camping " Ripario Hotel Group" is located in Otradnoe. This campsite has features that distinguish it from others - it is located on the territory of the resort complex. The campsite looks like a 3-level site for car houses, it is quite spacious (26 caravans fit freely on the territory). Beautiful view surroundings fascinates, gives a sense of peace and tranquility. Crimea is famous for its many attractions, for example, the Nikitsky Botanical Garden. It is located in close proximity to the resort complex and the campsite itself. Near the campsite there is a well-maintained beach, a lot of entertainment. "Ripario Hotel Group" welcomes its guests and offers them a comfortable stay, with a lot of advantages. For example, the possibility of using electricity (according to the meter); shower, toilet, swimming pool, exercise equipment, animation.
Prices
Parking a car costs only 580 rubles. Per person - 280 rubles. Children under 5 years old - free of charge. From 5 to 12 years old - 30% discount.
Address
Otradnoe, a suburb of Yalta, st. Maurice Thorez, 5
pros
Huge territory, located on the territory of the hotel, payment by card for all services
Minuses
Since this is a hotel area, it is quite crowded.
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Sun

Camping "Solnyshko" is located on the coast Sea of Azov, not far from it - famous lake Sivash with blue clay. On the way to the lake, you can visit the ruins of the old Turkish fortress "Arabat". Accommodation is provided in 4-bed houses with private facilities and two 2-storey cottages with 3 and 4-bed rooms. Amenities: a bathroom and showers on the territory, water is constantly available. The dining room is located on the campsite. At 100 meters, the gentle Sea of \u200b\u200bAzov splashes. The water here warms up quickly and for a long time. And due to the fact that the depth increases very smoothly, there is no danger to children's bathing. Clean and wide beach belongs to the boarding house. The beach is sand and shell, the entrance to the sea is sand.
Prices
From 400 rubles/day/person Children from 3 to 12 years old get a 15% discount. Parking is free.
Address
With. Kamenskoye, on the territory protected area"Arabat Arrow"
pros
Ideal for children, the sea is shallow
Minuses
Sea of Azov for an amateur
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Autocamping in Privetnoye

This car camping is probably the largest in Privetnoye. Located right next to the beach. On the territory there are several canteens and cafes, a barbecue and billiards, Wi-Fi Internet, a convenience store, food tents, toilets and showers. The campsite does not provide water or electricity. But there is a lot of free space, both for cars and tents, and for swimming, sunbathing and relaxing.
Address
If you go along the M2, then the shortest path is Dzhankoy, to the left - Nizhnegorsky, Belogorsk-Privetnoe pass, to the highway, to the left, across the bridge, to the right and to the sea.
Prices, they are Pluses
For free
Minuses
Open area, but there are a couple of places under the trees.

Cote d'Azur

The wide sandy beach with a gentle slope into the sea is ideal for families with children. The sea here is warm and shallow, with a smooth sandy bottom. The sand is soft, the beach is safe and not too crowded. It is always clean here, there are shady awnings, showers and toilets, specially designated smoking areas, fountains with drinking water, changing cabins. The lifeguard is active throughout the day.
Address
West Coast Evpatoria, near the street. Kyiv on the Moinak bay
Prices
The cost of living per day is 150 rubles / person. (Children under 12 free of charge). Car parking -50 rubles/day. Connection to electricity - 100 rubles / day
pros
Protected territory, Wi-Fi, 10% discount in the dining room, laundry service
Minuses
There is a nightclub nearby, in summer it can be quite noisy.
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Coronelli

The recreation center "Koronelli" is located 300 meters from the beach. In addition to relaxing in well-maintained cabins, you can place your car / mobile home in a protected area and pay for a place for your tent. Amenities and hot water in the territory. As well as volleyball and playground.
Prices
Parking for one car - 100 rubles. per day, the cost of living in a tent per person - 200 rubles. per day, the cost of living in the camping rooms - from 350 rubles. per day per person.
Address
Crimea, Feodosia, Coastal, st. Gagarina 93-A
pros
Nice place, food
Minuses
A bit far from the sea, mosquitoes
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Warm sea, majestic mountains, picturesque forest- Crimea is rich in all this. Hundreds of tourists come here with backpacks, tents and equipment to visit among natural nature away from the noisy dusty metropolis. During Soviet times, wild recreation in the Crimea was very popular, but in the 90s it was supplanted by the appearance travel agencies, comfortable hotels with all conditions, general imitation of European standards.

Crimea - perfect place for savages to rest in tents. The time spent among nature is remembered for a long time, strengthens the immune system, gives a state of peace and tranquility.

Wild vacation in Crimea is when you don’t need to look for a suitable hotel, choose the type of food, adapt to the daily routine of the sanatorium. All the necessary items on the road are usually placed in a hiking backpack. For a vacation in a secluded forest, uninhabited mountains or a deserted beach, any season is suitable.

Summer- a great time for swimming not only in the sea, but also in numerous pens, lakes, streams. Limans, bays and gulfs near Kerch, Evpatoria, Cape Tarkhankut usually empty in summer. The bulk of tourists move to equipped beaches.

autumn you can collect a variety of mushrooms, berries. The forests of Crimea are rich in fruitful vegetation. Extensive mushroom zones are located on highlands Demerdzhi, forest expanses of Bakhchisarai, near the village of Marble.

Carefully! When picking mushrooms, you need to be careful - you need to find out exactly which areas are allowed and contain edible mushrooms.

Tent campsites provide paid entrance or entry. On the territory of such towns there is a well-maintained infrastructure:

shower, toilet;
tents;
drinking water;
dining room or kitchen;
brazier, firewood;
entertainment.

A huge number of well-equipped and minimally equipped campsites for stopping with tents are concentrated on the peninsula. The best of them are in great demand among travelers.

Tent rest in Crimea camping park "Kush-Kaya", which is located at the foot of Mount Kush-Kaya on the coast of Laspi Bay, the Batiliman tract of the Sevastopol region. Here tourists are offered:

kitchen equipped with appliances and utensils;
shower, washbasin, toilet;
rain awnings;
tent rental.

Camping Park "Kapsel" located near Cape Meganom towards Sun Valley Sudak region. The camp provides:

showers, bathroom;
drinking water;
Internet;
cafe, billiards.

Camping "Atlesh" located near the Tarkhankut lighthouse, next to the village. Olenevka. The entrance fee includes:

3 meals a day;
bathroom;
use of a private beach;
entertainment.

Camping "Bastion" is located 1400 m from Foros. Accommodation here is possible only if paid for 10 days. The price (about 4000 rubles) includes:

double tent;
Three meals a day;
excursions, trips;
equipment;
outdoor shower, toilet.

Interesting! On the territory of most camping parks, paid parking without accommodation is allowed.

Independent rest wild

For complete seclusion from civilization and crowds, you can organize an independent vacation as a savage outside the campsites. Crimea has many quiet deserted places where it is possible to set up your own mini-camp.
First of all, you need to stock up on everything you need:

tents, bedding;
dishes;
clean drinking water;
provisions, canned food;
flashlight, batteries, matches, first aid kit;
warm clothes.

The ideal trip to the wilderness - in your own car. The trunk holds much more items than a backpack, and the car allows you to move around the Crimea, constantly changing stops.

Rules of savage tourists

There are some unspoken rules of finding among wildlife which savage tourists must adhere to:

Collect all garbage, take it to special landfills or the nearest tanks;
Extinguish the fire completely, do not leave the slightest spark;
Do not disturb the natural silence, do not disturb local flora and fauna;
Be careful in the forest - there are animals, insects, poisonous plants;
Take safety measures in the mountains, beware of stone falls.

Important! It is worth showing respect to other tourists, even being far from civilization.

The best places for wild holidays

There are many picturesque places on the peninsula where civilization has not yet reached, where there is no package tourism. This area is preferred by lovers of independent wild recreation.

Crimean Shanghai

The locals called the area Shanghai because of the consonance with the name of the Shan-Kai rock. She is situated over Alupka, 1 km from the highway to the northwest. Around the peak there is a pine forest, a mountain lake, vineyards, natural drinking springs. On the shore of the lake, there are fire pits, places for a tent, and a stable nearby.

Tract Inzhir

On the way from Sevastopol to Yalta there are the village of Reserve, from where you can see the Fig tract. The real name is Ayazma, but the Crimeans called it so thanks to the huge fig plantations. To stop, you can choose a forest, a clearing near the lake, the seashore or the foothills of the Lead Pass. Koktebel. At a distance of an hour's drive to the south is Cape Meganom, to the north - an extinct volcano Kara-Dag. The bay itself is located at the foot of the Echki-Dag mountain range. The lack of advanced conditions, the Internet and the mass of tourists makes the bay ideal for relaxing with tents on the seashore.

Ternovka village

The small village of Ternovka in the Sevastopol region is hidden from people huge beech and pine forests reaching up to coastline Ternovsky lake. Here are the holy springs Spaso-Preobrazhensky Monastery. For a comfortable rest of a few travelers, the monks built gazebos with benches.

Advice! You can bring home holy water from the source - it has healing properties.

Useful video

Familiarize yourself visually with the features of a savage holiday in Crimea:

From the experience of traveling to Crimea by car.

Rest in Crimea. Crimea in September. To the Crimea with a tent. Photos from the trip.
Maritime Crimea A trip to the Crimea by car with a tent in early September is the most wonderful time! The crossing is freer, there are much fewer people, cars on the road too. And the weather is wonderful!
Crimea in September 2015 met with a temperature of +36, but mostly it was +30.
If you like a secluded vacation, then it is better to stop first after Sudak, before reaching the village of Morskoye.
Right on the seashore, you can put up a tent next to the car. Traveling to the Crimea by car with a tent, of course, you need to plan and choose a convenient route for yourself, planning tent camps along the way, and where to stay for the night, of course, you need to calculate so that you can get to the chosen place by car, and then not go on foot under the scorching sun.

Camp on the seashore near the village of Morskoye
There are small amenities - a toilet, drinking water, a shower. The territory is clean.
In the evening, administrators pass and collect money - 100 rubles. from the car.
The best part is the silence. The sea is ten meters away, clean pebble beach. People come here even from Sudak to swim.
If you need a shop, you can take a walk or go to the village, 1 km from the place of rest.
The village has campsites, hotels, entertainment, but there are more people, which means more noise, loud music.
If you look at the sea, then to the left, on Cape Kabany, there is a sanatorium "Solnechny Kamen". There you can go on a tour along the coast. Very beautiful park with swings, flower beds, rare trees, a well-maintained beach with a shower.
Very clean, people are friendly, there are few tourists in September.
You can climb the mountain, along the crumbling steep slope, next to the abandoned, unfinished boarding house of the Lipetsk plant, go along the top to the village of Morskoye.
Fyodor Bondarchuk also noticed this strange structure. He used it in the filming of his film "Inhabited Island".
So there are vineyards upstairs. They are not visible from below. Due to the inaccessibility on this side, the vineyards are not protected. And there are growing almonds.
When you climb the mountain, don't forget to make a wish. The view is stunning on the sea and on the rocks of Cape Kabanye. Wishes come true! Checked on myself.
From Morskoye you can make day trips on excursions, leaving a tent on the shore under the supervision of neighbors, and taking valuables with you.
And cook in the evening Tasty food, breathe the sea air, swim, enjoy the sunset.
By the way, it is better to cook food on a stove with a gas canister. In Crimea, there is a problem with firewood, as well as with drinking water ... there are few rivers. But if you walk towards the sanatorium "Sun Stone", then you can stumble upon a river, more like a stream, called Raven. Why this name I do not know. There you can take industrial water. But, as mentioned above, problems with clean water not in this place. You can spend on cooking, drinking, washing, taking a shower. Nobody limits. And this is an important factor in the convenience of traveling with a tent by car.

Traveling in Crimea

Tarkhankut
After bathing and resting, you can continue your journey to the west Crimean peninsula, to the westernmost cape Tarkhankut. You can camp with a tent anywhere: either closer to the rocks or to the sandy beach, the main thing is to have a supply of fresh water with you, and if you don’t have it, then stop closer to civilization, for example, not far from Olenevka. Undoubtedly, it will be interesting to visit the snow-white rocky slope of Atlesh with green-blue caves and the Kastel Bay, where there are plants listed in the Red Book.

Cape Tarkhankut is a few kilometers of coastline with beautiful bays, caves and grottoes, the water here is the purest - a paradise for diving.

It's great if you're into diving, windsurfing, kiteboarding...or want to learn all of it. There are all conditions for this.
And the road itself will be interesting. Especially the section of the old Yalta road. This is an extraordinary place! Beautiful serpentine from Yalta to Bakhchisaray. What views open to the sea, rocks! The road winds through the forest to Ai-Petri, and descends in the same serpentine. The feeling that you are in a fairy tale, especially when you meet roe deer.
On Ai-Petri you can stop and admire the extraordinary landscape of central Russia. It's cold and windy up there. There are cafes, viewing platforms.
When you go down from the pass, the road will pass near unusual rocks. It was as if a giant wizard had thrown cobblestones. Be sure to stop in Bakhchisarai. There is something to see. Khan's Palace, in which Pushkin saw the Bakhchisaray fountain. These amazing old streets. Monastery with a church carved into the rock. cave city- Chufut-Kale.
Oh, what peaches they sell on the road right next to the peach orchards! But peach season is July-August.
In Bakhchisarai, you can buy fresh food supplies and continue on your way to Tarkhankut.
interesting road between the cities of Saki and Evpatoria. A long, long multi-kilometer sand and pebble beach stretches along the sea. And the water is amazingly turquoise. You can stop and swim, relax. Here you can get up for free, you can go camping.
Steppe Crimea not a very pretty sight. Rare agricultural fields, but mostly semi-desert with scorched red rocky ground with rare dry grasses sticking out.
The roads are not very good. The path lies in the village of Olenevka. The village itself is quite civilized, you can rent accommodation here, but if you want to live on the coast in a tent, then you still need to drive five kilometers to the seashore, where there are white rocks with through holes, an underwater museum where boat services and diving equipment are provided.
In general, this place looks better from the sea. All beauty is removed, basically, from there. On the very shore, there is a dry, stony desert.
If you want to retire, then to the left of the lighthouse to the village of Olenevka stretches shallow water with an amazing rocky beach. All stones are "chicken gods" with holes, light, multi-colored.
The tents are at a great distance from each other. Silence. The sea is very warm and clean.
Again, there is a problem with firewood and drinking water. That's why, best way out- This is a gas cylinder with a camping stove and a supply of drinking water.

Near Olenevka
Orlovka
From Cape Tarkhankut you can go to the village of Orlovka.

Orlovka
There is a wonderful sandy beach here. A river flows into the sea, so there are technical problems fresh water No.
Near shops, entertainment, recreation.
The only inconvenience is the strong wind. It is difficult to keep a tent on the beach. But if you do everything right - fix it well, then relaxing here is a pleasure! The water is clean, the sand is velvety, there are few people.
Lyubimovka

Lyubimovka
Then you can go to Lyubimovka (it is nearby), put up a tent and relax right on the seashore.
The shore is sandy and rocky, a clay cliff overhangs, protecting from the wind.
In Lyubimovka there are recreation centers and campsites, shops, entertainment.
But relaxing in silence on the very shore of the sea is great!
The same question - fuel and water. Everything with you.
Sevastopol

Wild beach in Omega Bay
Oh, that's a different story. There are so many attractions!
One day is not enough to see everything.
With a tent, we were standing in the city itself in the Pilots microdistrict, on the very seashore, in Omega Bay.
From there they made trips by car to Malakhov Kurgan, Khersones, to Sapun Mountain, to the 35th battery, the Fraternal Cemetery of the Warriors - Defenders of Sevastopol, to the Black River in the Inkerman area, Cape Fiolent, etc. We walked along the embankment, watched the city center, museums, panoramas .
Balaklava

Bay Balaklava
Great to go see Balaklava! Such beautiful bay! Closed from the sea (never a storm), with yachts different countries moored to the shore, with amazing houses stuck almost to the water's edge. On the high slopes are the Genoese towers, to which you can climb along numerous paths. Amazing views! And the feeling of such antiquity!
Below they sell souvenirs, many cafes, canteens, grocery stores. From Balaklava bay you can ride a boat on the Golden or Silver Beach. Swim there, and return to the car on the same boat. Or take a tent, food, water with you and spend a few days on the seashore. This color of sea water can only be seen in films, thinking that it was filmed with special filters. But in fact, the sea here is a real blue, turquoise.
Laspi
Then you can go to Laspi Bay between Capes Sarych and Aya, and specifically to Batiliman.

Batiliman

Batiliman beach. The beauty here is extraordinary! Coordinates: Latitude 44°25′12″N (44.420068), Longitude 33°41′32″E (33.692098).
You can swim until mid-October - the warmest place.
Millennial junipers grow along the rocky shore.
You can put up a tent for free on any wooden decks that are placed along the slope among the trees.
The beach is very exotic, created by nature. Shards of rocks in the water, you can swim around them. On the shore there are huge boulders and small pebbles.
To go down by car to this place, you have to maneuver along a narrow road, along the edges of which cars are left near summer cottages, small hotels, boarding houses. By the way, Yanukovych's dacha is upstairs a little to the side. The parking lot itself, where you can leave your car (you need to go to the end of the road), is an amazing sight. Cars are close to each other. Leave a phone number on the windshield. If someone needs to leave the parking lot, they call, and the owner of the car comes, makes maneuvers to clear the road. Everything is civilized.
A trip to the Crimea by car with a tent is very exciting! Along the way, wonderful views of the sea and rocks open all the time. Along the way, you can stop in all the amazing corners and make excursions.
You can complete your trip to the Crimea by car again, on the already familiar shore, near the village of Morskoye. Spend the night, swim and go to the crossing.
It turns out that you traveled almost the entire coast of Crimea.

Map of the route of travel in the Crimea by car with a tent.

Sights of Crimea

Attractions that can be seen along the described route:

Kerch- Adzhimushkay quarries, Mithridates.
Feodosia— Museums of Aivazovsky, Green and others.
Koktebel- House-Museum of M. Voloshin.
Zander- Sudak fortress.
New World- Golitsin trail, blue bay, Museum of Champagne Wines, etc. Alushta - Yusupov Palace, etc.
Yalta — bird home, Nikitsky Botanical Garden, Zoo "Skazka", Massandrovsky
palace, etc.
Bakhchisaray- Khan's Palace, Chelter-Koba Monastery, Cave City Chufut-Kale and many more in the vicinity of cave cities ...
saki— Settlement of Kara-Tobe
Evpatoria- Karaim kenasses, Gozlev gates, etc.
Sevastopol- Chersonese, Grafskaya pier, Monument to sunken ships, Cape Fiolent, 35th battery, Panorama "Defense of Sevastopol 1854-1855", Malakhov Kurgan, Sapun Mountain, Fraternal Cemetery for Soldiers, etc.
Foros– Church of the Resurrection of Christ, Baidar Gates, etc.
Alupka- Vorontsov Palace, etc.
Livadia- Livadia Palace, Glade of Fairy Tales, etc.
Partenite— Park of landscape art "Paradise".

This place on the world map can rightly be called paradise. Where cypress trees pierce the turquoise-crimson horizon in orderly rows, the mountains are buried in the depths of the sea, and the air is filled with the aroma of pine needles - this is all Crimea is!

They say that having been here once, you will definitely come back again, because love for the peninsula is inexhaustible, sincere and all-consuming. Much has changed since Soviet times, when ordinary hard workers could afford holidays in the Crimea, spending legal holidays in health resorts and boarding houses of the pearl of a great country.

Crimea has not changed over the years, even became more developed, both in the tourist and industrial sense, but the pricing policy has grown exponentially. Tourists still come here every year, but they choose budget options recreation.

One of these areas was the rest of the "savages" or speaking modern language- Leisure activities for eco-tourists. Crimea is an inexhaustible casket natural resources, it is famous for its many great places to stay.

Rest in the cities of Crimea is fashionable hotels, expensive excursions to the main attractions, crowded beaches, especially in high season. Most often, such a vacation does not bring pleasure, and it also devastates your wallet at the speed of light. A completely different thing is resting with tents in the usual circle of friends or the company of a loved one, the cleanest beaches and pristine nature around. In Crimea, there are still many amazing places where civilization has not reached. But where is the cleanest sea in Crimea, and how to get there. will help to understand this

Here you can still admire the starry sky, cook pilaf from rapans on a fire and sing songs with a guitar.

Tent camps for rest

Often, large tent cities with a minimum set of necessary services are organized by businessmen, breaking them up in the most beautiful places peninsulas. For those who are going to travel with tents on their own, the following list of popular and suitable places will come in handy.

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Campsites

The entire territory of Crimea is divided into 14 districts and 11 points of the urban district. There are also places in Crimea specially equipped for camping tourists, which are scattered throughout the peninsula, who travel by car. The most popular and frequently visited places for camping are Sudak, Alushta, Evpatoria, Yalta, Pervomaisky and the Black Sea region.

If you want to spend time at sea, then choose Yalta (and here, indicated in this article), Alushta, Sudak, where campsites are located on the very shore, and if you want to enjoy the fabulous vegetation and mountain ranges of Crimea, it is better to go to the Bakhchisaray district or Batiliman Bay.

Camping Batiliman

All of the above places involve tourists resting in their own tents, equipped houses on the campsite. Travelers with a private car should not worry, as there is a safe place to park a car in specialized camping sites.

Travel by car

Considering options for recreation as savages and at the same time, traveling on own car, it is worthwhile to determine the location of the camp in advance. You should not choose parking lots as far as possible from the highway, sometimes access to them can be difficult due to impassability.

Popular car campings

Turn your head in literally tent camp Cape Aya, which is located at an altitude of 70 meters above sea level. amazing scenery, pebble beaches and the minimum benefits of civilization - there is everything for a comfortable stay.

Do not ignore the camp near Balaklava, in an area called Fig, Bastion near Foros and Batiliman in Laspi Bay - this amazing places for family holidays.

Unusual and untouched places

Crimea is known not only for resorts with developed infrastructure, but also charming places where the benefits of civilization have not reached.

Cup of love

One of such places is Cape Tarkhankut and its Chalice of Love. This is a miracle of nature, a natural pool that is filled with sea water and is connected by a cave to the sea. To experience all the beauty of the Cup of Love, you need to jump into it.

Cup of love

An ancient belief says that by jumping into the depths of the sea with a lover, you can live a long life together. Learn more about the Cup of Love, and where it is, set out in this

Crimean dolmens

In total, there are about 72 stone dolmens in the Crimea, but there are practically no ones that have not been destroyed under the influence of time. Presumably, dolmens in the Crimea were erected by the ancient people - the Taurians, who lived from the 6th century BC. to 3rd century AD their exact purpose could not be determined, but it is said that they served as structures for the accumulation of strength and cosmic energy.

Crimean dolmens

The most famous are located in the center of Simferopol, near Mount Cats in Simeiz, near the village of Pionerskoye, in Massandrovsky beach, in the village of Gaspra.

Temple of the Sun

In the Laspi tract, in the southern part of the Baydar Yayla, a Greek monastery named after St. Elijah was located many years ago. The natural object called the Temple of the Sun is full of secrets and mysteries.

Temple of the Sun

It is a circle of eight boulders, in the center of which is a concentration of great power. If you bring something as a gift when visiting the Temple of the Sun and make a wish, it will certainly come true.

Text: Anna Chesova

IN THE SUMMER OF 2016, AT THE AGE OF 29, For the first time, I faced the need to go on vacation in splendid isolation. All my adult conscious life, if I went anywhere, then with my husband, but it so happened that a few months ago we divorced, and I was left alone. I didn’t fit into my friends’ summer plans either. At some point, I realized that this was a problem - I have zero experience in planning a vacation on my own, in this sense I am completely dependent and do not know what to do at all. Of course, the most logical and easy solution would be to buy a tour to some all-inclusive and spend a blissful two weeks there, plying between a sunbed and a buffet table. But - and I still do not quite understand how it happened - at the end of August I packed a tourist backpack and left for two weeks on the wild Crimean coast, where all this time I lived in a tent alone. And it really changed me.

I remember the monstrous confusion that preceded this decision. In my mid-thirties, everything that my life was built on suddenly disappeared: marriage, home, the belief that there are things that are forever. There were other circumstances - an affective love for one person, with whom nothing happened. In a word, it was a really hard year, and neither conversations with friends, nor conversations with a psychotherapist, nor work, nor sports, and even more so alcohol did not help get rid of the feeling of total uselessness. A lot of mental strength was spent on continuing to pretend that everything was fine - I did not want to look unhappy in the eyes of others, I did not want to complain. Often in the mornings, I literally persuaded myself to go to work, which I actually love madly. After all, all I could do with full dedication was lie on the floor and stare at the ceiling, listening to some sad song on repeat.

At some point, I reached a point where I couldn’t really concentrate on anything: I couldn’t read, work, have small talk, watch movies, and I couldn’t even sleep. One morning I was riding the subway and once again indulged in exhausting rumination. It was then, in the haul between Belorusskaya and Krasnopresnenskaya, that I decided that I needed some kind of radical experience that would help rethink everything - this is how the idea arose to go live alone in the wild, in a tent, preferably on the shore seas. Crimea seemed to me the cheapest and geographically closest option. Half an hour later, I flew into the office and from the doorway called our editor-in-chief Yura to talk face to face. I told him: “Whether you like it or not, Yura, I'm going on vacation. And by the way, will you lend me any money?”

Instantly, so as not to think again, I ordered tickets to Simferopol and back with a departure date exactly one week later. It was at the moment when the money was debited from the card that I finally remembered that I actually did not have a tent.

Preparation

I was on a very limited budget, and a light, compact and functional tent is worth the money. So I posted an ad on Facebook, which was answered almost immediately by a girl whom we had never met in person before. A couple of days later, in exchange for a promise to bring her Crimean wine, she lent me a light and very compact double tent, as well as a bonus tube of sunscreen - another item of expenditure turned out to be less.

A backpack, a sleeping bag, a tourist rug (aka foam), a gas burner for cooking, a lantern, a metal camping mug, a folding knife, an inflatable pillow - my ex-husband supplied me with all this. I laid out the necessary travel equipment on the floor in my room and realized that, together with the tent, it would take up a good half of my small backpack. In order not to overstrain on the road, I took a minimum of clothes: two pairs of shorts, two T-shirts, a sweater, warm pants, socks and underwear, one pair of shoes, a panama hat. I twisted all the things into thin bundles, after which I distributed them in the corners of the backpack so that there was room for bags of cereals (buckwheat, rice), spices and cosmetic bags with a minimum of cosmetics (toothbrush and paste, sunscreen, shampoo, soap, coconut oil - without which I'm nowhere - and a face cream).

The most difficult thing is to give up everything that is not really necessary, because I had to carry all the things myself. However, I did not achieve perfection in this refusal. For example, at the last moment, for some reason, I shoved my favorite home dress into my backpack - quite voluminous and heavy.

All week before departure, I listened to stories from others about what a strange and even crazy decision I made. Mom threw a fit. One longtime fan tried to reason with me on Facebook for an hour: “Forget it, baby, you are not a man, you are a woman. Why do you need all this? Hand over the tickets, we will fly with you somewhere abroad, I will pay for everything. “Thank you,” I answered him, “but I already have my backpack packed and I’m flying out the day after tomorrow. Bye!"

First day

The most difficult thing in the wild mountainous terrain - and this is exactly what I chose for my trip - is to find a flat, spacious enough area and set up a tent there. I reached the desired point about two days, already exhausted by the hardships of the road, and under the scorching sun began to look for where I could settle on this deserted coast. For half an hour I jumped from stone to stone and finally chose a small area, partially littered with boulders. I had to clear the territory of them and set up a tent in a rather strong wind - not such an easy task, especially if you are doing it yourself for the first time.

The day before I left, I carefully watched several training videos on YouTube. However, the preparation of the site and the installation of the tent still took me at least two hours - the wind, which was blowing almost continuously, strongly interfered. In addition, it is very difficult to drive stakes into the stony ground, and I had to strengthen the tent for the most part with cables, which I tied to large stable stones found nearby. Having finished, I climbed higher and for a long time victoriously looked at the fruits of my hands. And then she undressed and joyfully jumped into the sea. Having sailed away from the shore, I rolled onto my back and looked around: there was not a soul nearby. I was lying on the water and in a circle I was thinking the same thought: “Fuck it, fuck it, how did I even decide on all this.”

I remember well my first night on the coast. At the end of August, the Crimean sun - crimson, like a fresh wound - sets over the horizon very early, around eight, and the whole the world plunges into darkness filled with a thousand sounds. A branch crunched, a stone fell, a fox busily trotted past, a centipede rustled, sitting in the shade all day. The smallest noises are distinguishable - even though the sea is raging at full volume ten paces from you. Over time, you get used to it and learn not to flinch at every nonsense, but the first night I sat alone for a long time and stared fearfully into the blackness of the night, lighting cigarette after cigarette.

I climbed into the tent and closed my eyes, tightly clutching a camping knife in my hand - it seemed to me that all the wild animals had gathered around my little shelter

During those few hours that I was afraid to fall asleep, I remembered in detail all my Last year, which was so complex and so important. I thought about my failed marriage, about my divorce, about the apartment and the things I left behind, about the huge chunk of my life that was over, the huge chunk of life that had begun. I thought about all this calmly, as I should have thought much earlier, but I didn’t have time - everything happened so quickly, the emotions that prompted me to do everything that I did were so strong. It seems that for the first time I sat and did not believe that all this had happened to me. I repeated aloud the names of the people whom I loved and still love (which, in essence, is one and the same), spoke to them words that I had not dared to say all this time. And I wanted to believe, naively though it was, that somewhere out there they felt that right now I was thinking about them so much.

Around midnight, I climbed into the tent, wrapped myself in a sleeping bag and closed my eyes, tightly clutching a folding camping knife in my hand - it seemed to me that all the wild animals of the world had gathered around my little shelter and were watching me attentively through its thin fabric walls. My heart was pounding so hard that I couldn't sleep for a long time.

The next morning I woke up a different person. It's like I changed my skin.

Weekdays

Days flowed in a string, similar to one another. I immediately came up with a regimen for myself that allowed me not to run wild, in the bad sense of the word, until the last day - I had some travel experience behind my shoulders (several times we traveled as savages with my ex-husband) and knew how great the temptation in nature is to turn into an anthropomorphic animal with a slight unobtrusive admixture of human. I have met such people - a little frightening sight. And I had a plan for how not to be one of them.

Every morning I woke up around nine, when the sun rose over the rock and instantly heated the tent to such an extent that it became completely impossible to stay inside. Next is the morning shower - in a small cave near the water, I equipped myself with a boudoir where my bathing accessories were stored. I thoroughly washed myself, then swam for 30 minutes, smeared with coconut oil and went upstairs to a small flat area where I did short morning exercises. Then breakfast. Then a walk until the heat finally kicked in.

How to wash? How to wash dishes? How to wash clothes? How to entertain yourself? How to get your own food? There is a universal answer to all this - in the sea

During the most suffocating hours of the day, I climbed into the library - a spacious cave under big stone, where I read for several hours in a row or just lay and looked at the sea. After four, she took the mask and swam again, watching the fish and jellyfish. A few meters from the shore, my favorite flat stone protrudes from the sea, on which I liked to sit and look at the black birds that cluster around coastal rocks and pull their necks, shifting from paw to paw. If the day turned out to be windy, I dressed up and went to study the local flora and fauna - collecting and drying leaves, watching insects, sorting through stones and looking for artifacts left by my predecessors. For example, once I found a round flat White stone, very beautifully painted with some amazing patterns. I still regret not taking it with me. And another time, in a rock niche, I discovered a collection of animal skulls - someone carefully gathered them together and arranged them in order, from smallest to largest, and they were staring with empty eye sockets right at me, as if they were just waiting for me to see them. find.

About six - and I very quickly learned to distinguish time by the sun - I had dinner, then I read for another hour and, if I wanted to look at other representatives of the human race, I jumped over the stones for 30 minutes in the direction of the nearest holiday village with the only one in the whole area grocery store and a small cafe where there was even Wi-Fi. There I sometimes chatted with some vacationers, locals or savages like me, sat on the Internet, and when I really wanted to, I bought something harmful like ice cream or cheburek and immediately ate it under a small stunted tree. Then she went back to meet the sunset, took an evening shower in the sea to wash off the sweat of the day, went to bed and instantly fell asleep with the blissful sleep of the righteous. So I lived for two weeks, and it was, without exaggeration, the best two weeks in the past few years.

In the sea

There are a few questions I get asked most often about living in the wild. Here they are: “How to wash?”, “How to wash dishes?”, “How to wash clothes?”, “How to entertain yourself?” and “How do you get your own food?”. There is one universal answer to all this - in the sea.

Salt water and hard algae are great for washing dishes. The sea is also quite suitable for hair and body. Standing ankle-deep in water, I soaped myself from head to toe, and then dived deeper to wash off the foam. For the face, of course, it is better to use fresh water, and here springs come to the rescue, which can always be found in wild tourist spots - there were two of them near me.

Food is also in the sea. Not far from me lived people who every evening took fishing rods, got into the inflatable boat they brought with them and got breakfast, lunch and dinner for themselves the next day. I’m not very good at fishing, but catching crabs in stones is not so difficult - sometimes specimens of such impressive sizes come across that it’s scary to pick them up. However, you should not hesitate - the crabs are so nimble that it is worth gaping, and now you are already left without lunch.

Waking up in the morning, I didn’t even think whether I should wear shorts now or not. I just went about my business naked and sometimes remembered about clothes only in the evening when it was getting colder.

I washed with soap - there is nothing special to get dirty among stones and trees, and sweat and rock dust from clothes are easily washed off with soapy foam and sea water. In the heat, clothes dry out in a couple of hours - just spread them out in the sun and press them with stones from the wind.

However, I rarely had to do laundry in the Crimea - I wore almost nothing. I don't have any ideology about this - I'm not an apologist for naturism, but I like not to wear clothes when I can. On the wild coast, in the heat, rags seem to immediately lose their relevance, become superfluous. Waking up in the morning, I didn’t even think whether I should wear shorts now or not. I just went about my business naked and sometimes remembered about clothes only in the evening when it got colder. At some point, this state of affairs began to seem so natural to me that, without any ulterior motive, I began to post rather frank, according to my friends, photos on my Instagram (which I took using a timer on an iPhone). Already in Moscow, I was asked more than once why I did this, what goal I pursued. In fact, I just walked like this all the time and could not even think that photos of my naked tanned ass or stomach could outrage someone. And there were such cases: for example, in the midst of my vacation, a former classmate unsubscribed from me, who considered my account “porn”. Surprising but true - in 2016, many still consider the naked body to be porn, hello, Jock Sturges!

But I digress. All local raves also take place at sea. You can watch underwater life endlessly, and at night the water becomes very phosphorescent - to see the light show, just put your hands under the water and move them.

Food

Of course, you won’t be full of crabs alone, and here cereals, vegetables, fruits and everything that you can get in nearby stores come to the rescue - so it’s better, of course, to settle where they are relatively accessible. There is another option for those who live near a village: locals they often sell milk from their domestic cow, as well as vegetables and fruits from their garden. Announcements about this are often given right on the fences.

I bought buckwheat, tomatoes and cucumbers, nuts and dried fruits, herbs, and, of course, seasonal fresh fruits - I had to carry all this along the stones to the tent, store it in the shade away from the sun and carefully pack it - ubiquitous insects, especially ants, all the time they strive to settle in what you actually have in store for yourself.

It is most convenient to cook on a tourist burner (there is a lot of fuss with fires), but it happened to mine mysterious story. I checked its performance in Moscow before the flight, and when I arrived at the place, it turned out that the burner had managed to break down in a strange way. As a result, all two weeks I was forced to be content with cold buckwheat - from the night I filled it with water, and by morning it, having been saturated with moisture, was already ready. When eating cold food became completely unbearable, I warmed the buckwheat a little in the sun.

It is better to bring a minimum of spices, salt, tea and coffee with you from home, having previously packed it in the most ergonomic and airtight containers (my favorites are pre-washed plastic packaging from photographic film or round boxes from Kinder Surprises) - so, in my opinion, easier and more convenient than buying it all on the spot. In particular, in many small Crimean shops, salt is sold only in packs of a kilogram - so much is enough for a company of soldiers. As for cutlery, here necessary minimum- one plate, one cup, bowler, swiss knife and spoon. By the way, I in a hurry forgot the last one at home, because of which I was forced to eat food with my hands (yes, including buckwheat).

Other

The hardest thing to learn to trust is not nature - you realize too quickly that she is completely indifferent to you, but those strangers you meet periodically. Sometimes idle tourists from the neighboring village stumbled onto the stone where I lived, sometimes my neighbors appeared for a short time - all these people (usually men) were certainly interested in a young half-naked woman living in a tent all alone.

In the movie "Wild" there is a very accurate episode on this topic - the heroine Reese Witherspoon, exhausted during the first stage of her lonely journey with a backpack, meets a man somewhere in the field and asks him to help her. They get into the car, and she perceives his every word, every gesture as a prelude to rape. The same thing happened to me several times. For example, one day a kayaker sailed up to me on a stone and pestered me for a long time with persistent suspicious questions about how I live here completely, completely alone, how long I will stay and how far from here you can meet other people. Maybe he did not want anything bad, but at some point I grabbed the knife - after all, if he had bad intentions, no one would have heard my screams. And one day, a man in years of age, an experienced hiker from Sevastopol, decided to spend the night right next to me: going to bed, I firmly barricaded the tent with stones - which, it seems, amused him very much.

I met several girls who, like me, spent their summers in tent seclusion. And they all talked to me about it - a lonely savage always arouses, in general, quite understandable curiosity in the men she meets on her way. Such curiosity is easily converted in your head into a sense of danger, anxiety - also quite understandable. Here it would not be out of place to recall the recent flash mob #I'm not afraid to say - in particular, thanks to it, hundreds of women learned that they were not alone in their habit of clutching keys in their hands whenever they were alone on a dark street. In Crimea, I carried a knife with me everywhere (you never know) and, if possible, tried to avoid communication with persons of the opposite sex, who periodically appeared on the horizon. Vigilance is rarely superfluous.

I no longer feel like my life has failed. The feeling of amazing simplicity and correctness of what is happening now rarely leaves me.

But I want to tell about one acquaintance separately - it seems that good story for the final. It took place on the first day of my trip. Leaving the Simferopol airport, I got on the bus to Sevastopol with mixed feelings: I was all alone and, of course, worried about what was waiting for me ahead. There was almost no one in the salon - except perhaps a few grandmothers with seedlings and a married couple with a child. And about five minutes later, a handsome young man came in with a tourist backpack, who, like me, was also traveling alone like a savage. At the very first stop, we started talking - he said that he had come from St. Petersburg and was heading to Cape Aya, where a friend was waiting for him. We chatted about this and that all the way, and when we drove up to Sevastopol, I looked at the sky, where thunderclouds were gathering, and said worriedly: “Damn, it seems that it will rain soon, how inappropriate. Then my new acquaintance turned to me, narrowed his eyes, because the sun hit him right in the eyes, and uttered a phrase that I still repeat to myself every time I start to worry about something. He said: "Listen, let it pour."

When we said goodbye, he shook my hand and instead of "bye" he suddenly gave out: "Never be afraid of anything." And here, of course, I could say that after these words I was not afraid of anything, but this would not be true - I was scared many times. But I tried - and still try - to remind myself that if it suddenly pours, then it's okay, let it be. And immediately it becomes somehow calmer. By the way, I was very lucky with the weather - not a single rainy day. So I was completely unnecessarily worried.

I returned to Moscow in mid-September - black, salty and calm as a reptile. I got a second job, refurbished my room, took a drawing course, traveled to St. Petersburg, and made some pleasant new acquaintances. I don't know how it happened, but I no longer feel like my life has failed. The feeling of amazing simplicity and correctness of what is happening now rarely leaves me. But if it suddenly happens, I remember that guy from the bus. Or how once in the Crimea a huge vile centipede sat on my arm - nothing could be more terrible.

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