New friends in Crimea, ATV rides, walking on coals and a smoke sauna
It was so fortunate that our blog was read by guys living near Simferopol. It was with them that we stayed one night in front of our hiking in the mountains of Crimea. Lera and Andrey, thank you very much for the shelter and for spending your day off with us. You are open and interesting people, it was great to meet you and chat! I really hope we will meet again :)
But all was not done with the usual sleepover. There was a cave not far from their country house. Emine Bair Khosar, which I already talked about. And we went there for a reason, but along a short path through country roads on an ATV and an SUV.
Andrey and Lera
Country house of our friends
Country house of our friends
I love wooden houses, it's so cozy
Chandeliers in the form of a wheel from a cart
ATV in Crimea
To be honest, this was my first experience of driving an ATV. This gizmo is very powerful, and she strove to jump out from under me, and go into a ditch. It is good that the lower plateau of Chatyr Dag is quite flat, and there was no place to fly away. Andrei kept pushing, they say, this dent on the ATV, the man broke his leg, this scratch is the hand. But nothing, we drove carefully, and therefore everyone remained intact. The cross-country ability of the unit is very decent, I just drove across the field, bypassing stones, and never got caught anywhere, and the ATV did not even show that it could get stuck somewhere. I wonder how he behaves in the mud, and not on the rocky plain. I still remember how at one time the black soil on the Niva kneaded, that still machine was.
First Denis and Andrey
I'm just watching from the car
We are going towards Chatyr Dag
Half the way, you can see the surrounding mountains
Then it was my turn to ride
And I rushed off enveloped in dust
ATV can handle any surface
Small photo session on the Chatyr Dag plateau
Small photo session on the Chatyr Dag plateau
Small photo session on the Chatyr Dag plateau
Small photo session on the Chatyr Dag plateau
A view of Demerdzhi yayla opens
Stood and watched
The weather strove to turn bad
Then by car to the other end of Chatyr Dag
From here you can see the foothills
From here you can see the foothills
It's good when you can just sit and think
From here you can see the foothills
In general, of course, there is something in this. You live in the foothills in your house, wanted to go to the mountains, got on an ATV and after 20 minutes you already enjoy the view. Comfortable! Although the key word here is not ATV, but «live in the foothills». Perhaps someday we will implement it in one form or another..
Coal walking and smoke sauna
After riding an ATV and a jeep around Chatyr Dag, visiting Emine Bair Khosar caves and admiring the mountain views, we drove back to the guys' house, where a smoke sauna and walking on coals were waiting for us.
At first I refused coal. My first experience of walking on them in the village of Vozrozhdenie was not entirely successful - he burned a couple of fingers. But, as they say, they don’t go to someone else’s monastery with their own charter, and if I want to go to the bathhouse, I’ll have to walk over coals. And wow, this time everything worked out. Either I moved faster, or the coals were not very coals :)
But the smoke sauna is something! I have never been, all saunas, but saunas. When you leave the steam room, a funny aftertaste of smoke remains in your mouth, and you feel like some kind of smoked meats. I like it! I want a wooden house and a bathhouse!
Walking on coals
To the pool after the steam room