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Crimean Mountains Photo Gallery. Pictures from hiking tour 1997.

Big Canion of Crimea - Aj-Petrinskaya Stena (Cliff) - Bajdaro-Kastropolskaya Stena (Cliff) - Baidarsky Valley - Laspi Rock.

Crimea is quite an interesting place. Everything is mixed here -- different peoples and cultures, different epochs, even different climate zones. From the ruins of Khersones -- an ancient Greek city not far from Sebastopol, through the monuments of medieval age like florentian fortress in Sudak to the modern buildings and resorts of current days.

It is also quite a marvelous place for hiking, rapelling and other kinds of outdoor tourism. Crimea as well is a center of hang-gliding and bicycling. There were a number of well organized tourist trails in Crimea, but they mostly fall into a state of total neglect now. Anyway, you can always take your backpack and go there. Even if there's no comfortable camping waiting for you in the deep forest (so, you will have to bring your camp and sleeping bag with you).

I myself had walked it all along and across and here would like to share some personal impressions with you. Here I will describe mostly my last journey taken May 1997, but I will also make some lyrical digressions along my way.
 

This project is nothing more than just an illustrated history of our travels in the mountains of Ukraine with the photographs some of us have made. You can read about me and other authors of these pages here.

This project will grow continuously as we will make new travels and bring new fresh pictures. Probably it will have pictures and stories not about only Ukraine but other other countries we are planning to visit.

With this project we wanted to share with you our excitement, our admiration of Mother Nature and our enthusiasm. So, we hope this Gallery will inspire you for your own travels and your own stories we shall be really glad to read.

If you have your own pictures and your own travel stories -- just write us. We would be very glad to read your stories and see your pictures. The best ones will become the part of these Galleries!

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