Miranda Loves Travelling - My Travel Diary - Page 294

We took a boat to get to a small town called Gurzuf from Yalta. Here there is the Chekhov’s dacha and it is a museum now. It is a small but…

Japanese tourists used to be famous for their photo taking, but Ukrainians and Russians who visit Crimea like taking photos a lot. Not only they snap in front of some monuments,…

This is a dessert we had in Yalta. There is some cherry inside the skin and you dip into the honey sauce. They called it Variniki. Other thing I ate and…

They said that our hotel had a special beach for the guests, so we went there. It was not really a beach, but a structure on top of the rocky waterfront…

In Bakhchisarai in Crimea, there is a cave monastery, called Uspensky Monastery. There is no evidence, but they say it was founded in the 8th century. It is built into the…

Some years ago, I saw a ballet called Bakhchisarai Fountain in St.Petersburg in Russia. Until I started looking into Crimea as our holiday destination, I did not know this fountain existed….

Bakhchisarai is the place I wanted to visit most in this trip in Crimea. It was the capital city of Crimean Khanate of Crimia Tatars who are the descendant of Genghis…

This church is in a place called Foros in southern Crimea. A man who became rich through trading tea built this and used the underground space as a warehouse. This church…

On the way back from Mt.Ai-Petri, we stopped at Chehov’s house in Yalta only to look at it from outside. He built this house at the end of 19th century with…