One step away from the Green Cape
Knowing the world
Circling around the hotel outside the swimming season can get boring if you come here for more than 2 days. During the season, the hotel, it should be noted, is well prepared. Here you have a medium-sized children's animation. But what is most important for children is that someone takes care of them, it's true. So you will induce another hour a day alone. Here you can also rent rackets, chess(! ), skewers and, most importantly, daily excursions. You will see Crimea. We beat on our wheels.
In April, we waved to the city itself and to the Vorontsov Palace. The city is very sprawling, so a walk through it will be a thrill only for those who have a good cardiogram. But on a sunny April day, Alupka was very picturesque and not crowded, conducive to walks and reflections.
To the palace from the "Green Cape" on foot for about 40 minutes. It's only 3 kilometers, but the mountainous terrain, plus the heat, you will definitely get tired of going back.
But the palace itself and the park, as always, are magnificent. We fought there in the rain and in the sun. The palace itself is not big, but very nice and cozy. Severely frowning with the gray northern facade of the toothy masses of Aipetren, he smiles complacently with the snow-white southern full face in the style of Moorish estates to all onlookers passing by. Two huge parks, combining the symmetry of alleys, parallel ledges descending to the sea and randomly located stone ensembles with waterfalls of various heights, will bring coolness in hot summers and melancholy in rainy autumns.
Much has changed since the revolution and my last visit. Now there are English-language signs everywhere, and the entrance price tag also smacks of European financial status.
The excursion menu consists of a visit with a tour of the palace itself - 70 hryvnias and a lot of smaller visits with audio accompaniment, like the house of Count Shuvalov, Vorontsov's kitchen and several art exhibitions - about 20 hryvnias each. Passage to the southern facade with lions is also paid - 5 hryvnia.
You can buy a combo ticket for 90 hryvnia and visit everything. The park has remained a national treasure, tobish free of charge, well, children under 7 are always on the road.
For photography, you will be required another 10 hryvnia.
After exchanging glances with my wife, we ordered two travel cards. What to do, sometime you still need to go to this palace.
I liked the palace. This, of course, is not a European standard, but it has its own charm and taste. Count Vorontsov had something to brag about.
After the palace, we went to the southern terrace, which is customary to parade on various guidebooks and photo postcards. After that we hit the art. They went around everything, except for the exhibition “Flowers in Painting”. I felt very sorry for my daughter, who was not as interested as we were. All the same, we still don’t orient museums to children in the same way as in Sweden or Germany, for example.
Having supported the souvenir industry financially, we went for a walk in the park, where my daughter, to my surprise, found many very hidden and interesting paths, bypassing the main routes. So much for the new generation, after all, I spent all my childhood here, but I didn’t bother to find so many paths.
In the summer sunset, we went down to the tea house, which turned out to be closed and the children's beach. It turns out that the sea terminal is still functioning, from which you can get on a boat bypassing the Swallow's Nest to Yalta. I recommend checking the schedule in advance.
The only negative is that there is no normal cafe on the territory of the palace, although there is a very nutritious and cheap canteen nearby, which everyone praises. If you are heading towards the palace, then it is located in front of the main entrance to the park to the left-up. In front of the same entrance, you will be offered to leave the car in the parking lot. 20 hryvnia per day.
But the palace cafe sells to legal entities and individuals only pies and coffee in cardboard cups, and then no more than one in hand, since the device is not very functional. Cafe near the ticket office of the palace.
In May, leaving our camp site, I wanted to continue the banquet. We decided to visit Simeiz and at the same time admire the only water park in Ukraine with sea water. That one, it turns out, opens only on June 8th. But he looked pretty attractive. I made a note in the diary about the need to visit him.
We decided to go to Simeiz directly from Alupka. Fortunately, we decided to orient ourselves on the ground with the locals. They said that at the entrance to the town, the valiant GAI officers erected a sign with a sign that they say there is nothing to enter here until 23.00. To, so to speak, unload the city from cars. I had to look for other ways. It was possible to drive from the villages of Katsiveli or Ponizovka, but we noticed a paved path right behind Mount Koshka.
I note that I have not yet descended such narrow and curvilinear serpentines. The car barely fit between the impudent branches. But this was the charm of the pioneers. After passing the recreation center "Blue Bay" you can turn left into Simeiz itself, or right into the water park.
Having entered Simeiz, we decided to leave the car on the outskirts and take a walk. The city is a rank higher than Alupka and is very attractive. There is the upper part of the city, there are parks, civilization (shops, stops and stalls "Soyuzpechat") and the lower part - a sea promenade with a beach and restaurants. For those who want to eat, I recommend immediately going to the sea, the prices there are not much more expensive than the “upper ones”, but the landscape is much higher. Although we found an inexpensive cafe at the top with a good view, it would be better if we didn’t find it and went down to the sea.
The beach is a large pebble, small and in a more or less protected bay. For children, there is complete expanse.
I liked Simeiz, even despite the rather steep descent-ascent to the sea.
