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I noticed that many Russians write in the comments that they have never been to Crimea. Or they were once - they went to Yalta (because they don’t know any other city), they didn’t like it there - it’s expensive, the beaches are clogged, the service is bad at high prices, and they didn’t go anymore.
But in Crimea there are many other wonderful places, except for Yalta, where you can have a great vacation. I'll tell you briefly about each of them.

So, since many people go to the Crimea through the Kerch crossing, let's start with Kerch.

Kerch.
Kerch is a hero city, but not a resort at all. The sea is muddy, half-Black, half-Azov. In the center of Kerch there is not even a sensible beach, everyone swims from the concrete embankment (and even then it is forbidden there), the beaches are slightly better - in the southern part of Kerch - in Arshintsevo.
But Kerch is rich in attractions. Be sure to climb Mount Mithridates with the remains of the ancient Greek city of Panticapaeum and the Obelisk of Glory of the Great Patriotic War, overlooking mainland Russia and the island of Tuzla. Another place that deserves attention is the nice little Yeni-Kale fortress, located near the port of Crimea (ferry crossing). Only one bastion has been preserved in the fortress, so there are usually few people near Yeni-Kale (which is good):

Seaside
An urban-type settlement near Feodosia. Once an industrial village, it is now actively developing as a resort. To Feodosia to go no more than half an hour. The beaches are not too crowded, but there are no special attractions in Primorsk either.

Coastal
A rural-type settlement between Primorsky and Feodosia. Near Beregovoe is the Golden Beach with clean sand. They also travel to Golden Beach and Beach 117 from Feodosia. In Beregovoe itself, housing is rented in the private sector. You can rent housing in Beregovoy, then the beach is nearby - across the road, and go to Feodosia for a cultural program.

Feodosia
Feodosia is one of the most beautiful places in Crimea for recreation. A rich cultural program - a magnificent art gallery of the marine painter Aivazovsky, the Green Museum, the only hang gliding museum in the world, the local history museum, Pushkin's grotto, the Aivazovsky fountain and many other interesting places. There is where to walk in the evening and choose souvenirs.

Feodosia is an excellent starting point for excursions in the eastern Crimea: Sudak-New World, Koktebel, Kara-Dag (Golden Gate), Kerch. From other places (Yalta, Sevastopol) to all these beautiful places to go much longer.
The only minus of Feodosia is the city beach. It is pebbly and too crowded in high season. Plus - near the port, which affects the quality of sea water. But you can go to the Golden Beach and other beaches in the vicinity of Feodosia.

Koktebel
A village at the foot of the extinct volcano Kara-Dag, a bohemian hangout place like artists or musicians. There are many cafes, nightclubs, striptease bars and other sacred establishments. There is also a nudist beach at the beginning of Koktebel. There is also a house-museum of Maximilian Voloshin. In Soviet times, Koktebel was called Planerskoye, and we called it that until about the end of the 90s.
Near Koktebel is the Kara-Dag mountain range, where excursions are taken. A nice place. You can walk from the excursion, or you can take a boat to the Golden Gate - the famous rock in the sea in the form of an arch:

Resort
The village on the other side of Kara-Dag. There are few people on the beach, but in Kurortny, apart from the dolphinarium and pasties with shawarma, there is nothing interesting. From Kurortny you can walk to a nudist beach called Lisya Bay - there naked people live in tents.

Zander
Known for its Genoese fortress, Sudak itself is not a very good place to stay due to the overcrowded beaches. More precisely, I don’t know what about sanatorium beaches, but on the city beach of Sudak in the season and there is nowhere for a mouse to spread an umbrella.
But the Genoese fortress is one of the main attractions of Sudak:

New World
Novy Svet is one of the most beautiful places in Crimea. Located next to Sudak. You can relax in Sudak and travel to the New World, or vice versa. And even better - to relax in Feodosia, and go on an excursion to Sudak and the New World.

Consists of three bays. The first bay is Zelenaya, near the village of Novy Svet. This is a civilized beach with trestle beds and umbrellas. The second bay - Blue or Rogue, is already in the reserve. Wild beach. The third bay is the Tsarskaya Bay, also in the reserve. There are grottoes in the reserve. The through grotto, unfortunately, has been closed for several years. But you can visit Chaliapin's grotto, where Golitsyn's wines were stored.

Marine, Fishing, Malorechenskoe, Solnechnogorsk
Villages of rural type between Sudak and Alushta. Housing in the private sector. There are also campsites. The beaches are spacious, there are not so many people. There are no attractions. Cheap and cheerful.

Alushta
Alushta is a city, a big city by Crimean standards. There goes a trolleybus from Simferopol. Alushta has a significant drawback - paid beaches. All beaches are divided into 2 categories:
1) beaches of sanatoriums and boarding houses - there are not as many people there as herrings in a tin can, but these beaches are more expensive for those who do not rest in this boarding house, and some are not even allowed for money.
2) city beach. Paid and with a huge crowd of seals.
My advice to you: if you are going to Alushta, then go to some sanatorium or boarding house, and not to an apartment, otherwise you will overpay every day to get to the beach.
Attractions near Alushta: Valley of Ghosts (Demerdzhi), Marble Cave, Red Cave, Dzhur-Dzhur waterfall. Even in Alushta, there is a good water park and many restaurants, clubs - there is where to take a walk in the evening.

Partenit, Gurzuf
Resorts between Alushta and Yalta. Considered thieves and expensive. Partenit on one side of the Bear Mountains, Gurzuf - on the other. Pushkin lived in Gurzuf. Two rocks in the sea near Gurzuf are called Adalary.

Yalta
A monument to the Lady with the Dog was opened in Yalta a few years ago. There is Franklin Roosevelt Street in Yalta. There is McDonald's in Yalta. However, no. McDonald's is no more.
What to say about Yalta - everyone knows about Yalta. In Yalta - a lot of entertainment and at the same time disgusting sea and beach.

There are also many different sights near Yalta: Nikitsky Botanical Garden, Massandra Palace, Livadia Palace, Yalta Zoo, Uchan-Su waterfall.

Gaspra, Koreiz, Miskhor
The so-called Big Yalta. Almost the entire coast between Yalta and Alupka is filled with sanatoriums and boarding houses. Once upon a time, the Grand Dukes of the Russian Empire built their palaces on this site. For example, Grand Duke Peter Nikolayevich built the Dulber Palace, Grand Duke Georgy Mikhailovich built the Harax Palace, and Baron Steingel built the famous Swallow's Nest.

Alupka
In Alupka there is the Vorontsov Palace and a park next to it, a cable car rises from Alupka to the top of Mount Ai-Petri, there is nothing else there, and there are no beaches in Alupka.
Lions in the Vorontsov Palace:

Simeiz, Katsiveli, Foros
Settlements between Alupka and Sevastopol. This is the southernmost, warmest part of Crimea.

Balaklava
Although Balaklava is part of Sevastopol, I will single it out separately. This is a very interesting cove:

However, there is nowhere to swim. To swim in the sea, you need to go by boat to the Silver or Golden beaches, or get to them on foot through the mountains.

Sevastopol
In Sevastopol itself, because of the abundance of warships, the sea is disgusting. There are beaches in the bay like "Omega", but they are extremely terrible. To get to a normal beach, you need to get to Nakhimov Square, transfer to a boat, swim across the bay on a boat, take a minibus there (by the way, minibuses in Sevastopol are called topics, and they pay there at the exit), and this minibus will bring you to a normal beach in the open sea. You can also go through the whole city to Chersonese or Fiolent.

But in Sevastopol there is something to see: the same Chersonese, panorama, diorama, dolphinorama, many different museums and monuments.

Evpatoria
A nice town with a tram (one of the Evpatoria trams runs along one track - first in one direction, then back along the same track), many temples of different religions (Khan-Jami Mosque, Armenian Church, Karaite kenas, synagogue) and sandy beaches. For an amateur. Not as expensive as in the South Coast.

There will be questions - ask!
Have you been to any places in Crimea?

I, my wife and a child of 3 years old, went to the Crimea, we decided to take a closer look there (on the ferry, by the way, it took 5.5 hours from buying a ticket to the exit to the other side): Kerch didn’t want to, in Feodosia on the city beach, the locals said that swimming in this swamp , go to Beregovoe - let's go, the infrastructure is somehow mediocre, the sand on the shore is nice, and the discarded algae (there were 06/26/15) is not very good. Let's go to Koktebel - the landscape immediately changes from plains to hills and mountains, in short, we liked it, we decided to stop. We went to look for housing, approached a man near the curb, he had a toilet for 200 rubles per person, a shower on the street and an old house, they didn’t look, he called another, he rushed over, explained that we wanted it decently and that the hot water was clean and clean for the child, he said there is super - let's go, we come, we look at a shabby cheap repair, stained bed linen, dusty and a 30l boiler (and says they say 1500r, but it will drop up to 1200), we repeat to him what we asked, he says okay, let's go where there are mountains. water is constant (although he assured that 3 adults can calmly wash themselves at 30 liters, to which we said that 80 liters is not always enough in our house during a shutdown of hot water), we ask and there the same condition and repair, and then it began that you don’t like it, the room is excellent, and I quote “.. fuck you come here at all, you got it ..” apparently we are not the first. I wanted to push him, but the family, the car, and went farther, by the way, this HAMLO stands at the entrance to Koktebel ON THE WHITE PRIOR sedan of a dark appearance and at first a smiling type. We decided only to hotels, so that it would be calmer (but not fans of hotels to choose through the Internet, they came across - the photo is beautiful, you don’t come very much ..) We chose the Little Prince, the hostess from Moscow, demanding, judging by the cleanliness, repair and equipment, we stopped by for a day, the discount was made from 1.5 to 1.3 tr. for a 3-bed room with a balcony, a bathroom. kitchen (table, sink, dishes, dryer and tiles in the room), refrigerator, air conditioning, safe, LCD TV + communal pool, playground, barbecue with a seating area on 2 floors, the only thing is to put the car not on the territory, but nearby, but so everything is super, the beach is not far away. The beach is pebbles, you go in 3-5 meters and the sand, I liked it, the child didn’t like the pebbles, it hurts to walk, and so the Dining Room is normal (Spoon) and Scarlet Sails (they decorated the ships beautifully), and the dolphinariums of neighboring Feodosia and Sudak do not work, but they work here. We decided to ride to Sudak, there is sand, the child liked it, we lived in Koktebel for 3 days, everyone climbed and moved to Sudak, we started looking for housing by visiting the beaches, the right side (where the fortress) is a paid beach, then a beach for vacationers TOK Sudak, then Base CSKA (you can’t go through it to the beach, you have to go around. ., we decided to rent near the water park and did not fail, the hotel (Admiral Nelson 1.6 tr.) in Sudak is also a little more expensive, but everything is more and according to the locals, the treatment facilities were replaced for the 1800th anniversary and taken out of the city. Here. The beach has both pebbles and sand, the sea is super, when there are no waves you can see your legs in the water up to your chest, there are a lot of entertainment and climbing, and a fortress, and go to the neighboring city to the zoo, but we didn’t have time, we’ll go again. The return ferry stood for 15 minutes. I hope this review helps you, have a great holiday!

The closer to the coast, the more picturesque the road became. Mountains appeared ahead. Here - in the south-east of Crimea, they are "bald", not covered with forest. Finally, the road turned into a serpentine, and the sea shone behind the mountains - we are at the goal!

Our first stop is in the small village of Ordzhonikidze. First of all, we went to the beach to evaluate it and decide whether to stay here. The beach was small and sandy. The bay is bounded by low mountains on both sides, and Karadag is visible a little further. We liked it, and we rented a "kopeck piece" on Lenin Street - across the street from the embankment. The apartment is quite simple, with old furniture, they say about such people "poor, but clean." But with a balcony, from where this view opened:

I suddenly realized that I didn’t want to go somewhere else today, but I wanted to sit on this balcony, drink tea and look at the sea. So they did.

The next morning we woke up early - we are already early birds, and then there is an hour difference in time. As a result, we went to the sea at 8 am, expecting to see a completely empty beach - it was not there: the people were already swimming with might and main. But still, there were fewer people than in the evening, and the water was clear, which completely turned our ideas about sandy beaches upside down.

After swimming, we went to get acquainted with Ordzhonikidze (or Ordzho, as it is also called).

Orjo is located on a peninsula, which is washed on one side by the Dvuyakornaya Bay, and on the other - by the Provato Bay, which overlooks the main part of the village.

The embankment is small, rather nondescript - but unexpectedly comfortable: on the one hand there are numerous cafes, on the other - benches. There are no tables, kiosks, vending machines on the "promenade" itself - nothing prevents you from moving around. Only now the benches for some reason turned their backs to the sea.

Both ends of the embankment rests on low mountains, which you can climb. And even you need to climb - the views are worth it!

The mountains form headlands that cut off small coves from the sea - in these coves tourists have been seen standing with tents.

And in the distance - Karadag, which is visible from everywhere.

But the mountain on the other side of the village (it seems to be called Vasyukovka) is worth climbing in the evening - to admire the sunset.

Summing up, Ordzhonikidze seemed to us a quiet, calm place. It may be boring here, but we are our own guides - and we went to Sudak to watch the famous Genoese fortress.

The road from Ordzhonikidze to Sudak leads through Koktebel.

We did not see the city itself, but on the way back we dropped into the local beach. Here it is already pebbly, and Karadag is very close.

A very picturesque serpentine leads from Koktebel to Sudak.

Having passed through the whole of Sudak, we reached the Genoese fortress. Near the entrance - paid parking: 10 hryvnia per hour (hryvnia - a little more than 4 rubles).
I heard a lot about this fortress, saw a bunch of photos, but the reality exceeded my expectations - the fortress was very impressive.

A grand building.

Part of the fortress wall runs along the top of the cliff, which already seems impregnable.

And what views from here!

Below - Sudak.

Both we and the children liked the fortress very much - we didn’t go in vain.

We spent three days in Orjo. For some reason, we felt very comfortable here. And yet, unlike the rest of the coast (both Russian and Crimean, as it turned out later), there was no feeling here that they were trying to swindle you for money every second. But the time has come to move on - now our path did not lie along the coast, but deep into the Crimea.