Western Crimea
The long beach season, the ideal climate for family vacations, a large number of sunny days a year, not too high popularity among tourists and an abundance of interesting sights of various properties make the west of Crimea an ideal region for a vacation. Especially when you consider the pleasant prices for accommodation, the options for which in this part of the peninsula are really impossible to count..
Cards on the table!
The main resorts of the west of Crimea are the cities of Sevastopol, Balaklava and Evpatoria, and the less famous, but no less popular, are Saki and Chernomorskoe. In this part of the peninsula, you can find beaches for every taste - both sandy and pebble. The entrance to the water at all organized swimming places is rather gentle, and the temperature of the sea waves reaches +20 in June. Resorts of the west of Crimea are most often chosen for families with children and because of the relative silence and lack of noisy entertainment, but the water parks, which will be interesting for both children and their parents, are built here in the best traditions of popular world resorts.
For active and curious
In addition to the traditional beach holiday, the west of Crimea is also interesting for those who are fond of history and local history. Some sights of the region rightfully rank high in the ratings of the most popular with tourists:
- The ancient settlement of Kara-Tobe was built by the ancient Greeks and Scythians. The accidentally discovered ruins of an ancient settlement are still being restored, but today you can take an excursion to the museum of ancient exhibits collected during excavations, or see the most interesting ruins in the vicinity of the city of Saki.
- The ancient city of Tauric Chersonesos today is a nature reserve in Sevastopol, consisting of a settlement and a museum with unique antique exhibits. More than two and a half millennia ago, this city was founded by the Greeks, and today archaeologists and historians answer questions from visitors to the museum exhibition about their most interesting finds and discoveries..
From dirt to Kings
The Saki resort in the west of Crimea is known for its curative mud, extracted from four salt lakes. In addition to mud, water itself and brine from the bottom of reservoirs have a healing effect. In the Sak hospitals, patients get rid of many ailments of the musculoskeletal system and dermatological problems, treat infertility and chronic bronchitis.
Healing programs developed by doctors of sanatoriums can be successfully combined with a comfortable beach holiday in the west of Crimea.
