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Rest in Crimea. Okunevka. July 2016
Okunevka for me this summer has become the center, if not of the Universe, then of the Crimea for sure! Okunevka is a village (or village) in the Chernomorsky region, in the steppe, on Cape Tarkhankut.
There are no granite stairs leading to the sea, there is a concrete one, but locals and visitors still prefer the folk trail; there are no restaurants and night discos, but wide open gates to the courtyard without signs and names, but if you ask anyone where you can have a bite, you will get a completely exhaustive answer: “At aunt Katya! ” Gorgeous Tatar cuisine! Where you can have a snack with one cheburek, and eat up with two or three! And if there is also honey pakhvala... ? ! By the way, the prices are NOT MOSCOW! So pasties with meat or cheese cost 30-40 rubles. In the evening you can order dry wine, there is also wine! And there's nothing in the liquor stores! No wine, no vodka, no brandy! And you can order from Grisha (Valya will call and he will conduct a tasting), choose from 5-8 varieties, but Grisha's chacha is a must try! I guarantee you won't get a headache! Checked!

At dawn you will be awakened by the chirping of birds, the barking of dogs at the other end of the village, the neighbor's rooster and the sun through the window. But after all, many people cannot even imagine that it is possible to wake up like this! It's not the noise of cars outside the window.
But in Okunevka there is a primeval boundless steppe! During the excursions, people willy-nilly recalled something folk, such as STEPPE YES STEPPE AROUND... or OH, YOU ARE WIDE STEPPE... It's all about Okunevka! In the steppe, the sun rises and sets, which upset me a little - I wanted to photograph the droshky on the water, like on the South Coast. But there is a way out! You go down the same folk trail that starts right at the second gate of OKUNYOVKA-TOUR, to the sea and 500 meters on the right you will see a white yacht with the beautiful name MILANA, negotiate with Captain Igor (a very colorful figure in every respect! ) and SEVEN FEET UNDER THE KEEL ! Have you ever sailed? If not, then - to Igor! So we met one of the dawns 8 miles from the coast. By the way, he showed us, told us everything about Small and Big Atlesh, and in the bay where PIRATES OF THE XX CENTURY were filmed, we jumped from a cliff into crystal clear water! The echo sounder showed 8 m, but the sand was visible through the emerald green water! And his prices are not simply democratic, but in general - freebies! Those. he (Igor) does not make money on tourists! And one more thing: Igor is a wonderful storyteller! For any question you will receive an exhaustive answer.
So! That was only the introduction, and now about the main thing! About OKUNYOVKA-TOUR.
The epigraph to this report could easily be the phrase BORN IN THE USSR IS DEDICATED! Or PIONEER CAMP OKUNYOVKA-TOUR!

This is a private pension again with VERY affordable prices. So a day of accommodation with three meals a day cost me only 950 rubles, less than one thousand! And immediately about nutrition: the food is the most homemade! There will be no lobsters or mussels here, you will be offered porridge on your own (! ) Milk and butter, but I personally have never eaten anything tastier! Pancakes with meat and cottage cheese, boutique and tea (coffee, compote). This is breakfast. You will leave the table with a rounded tummy! After 3 days at lunch I refused salad and bread, for dinner - I gave my bun to a neighbor, but I DID NOT CLIMB SO MUCH!! ! By the way, about lobsters. . . The children, swimming in the sea, caught crabs, small ones and asked the hostess of this very pioneer camp to cook and. . . please! Valya (she's Valentina Ivanovna, she's the head of the camp! ) and Tanya will make you crabs and lobsters! They are true experts in their field! That same Aunt Katya had only once, and then out of human curiosity - I really wanted to look at the Tatar courtyard. And there is no snacking - I would eat my own! But you can sit without disturbing anyone and drink wine-tea, yes! Because somehow on the weekend we sat and drank, and then in an undertone we had small talk... and even swam in the night sea... In the morning they told us everything that they thought about us. Some extreme sportsmen (represented by a young couple-students) refused to eat at all - they saved on everything - they paid only for accommodation! The exact amount can be viewed on their (OKUNYOVKA-TOUR) website. I think 200-250 rubles at the peak of the swimming season.
And, the best part, no matter where you swim, no one will jump over your head!
Comfort. There are many comfortable hotels for sure in Olenevka and Chernomorskoye, but! Everyone is going there! Naturally, the sea there will be churned up even in calm, a dirty coast from household garbage; you can choose rooms with air conditioning, private toilets and showers... But won't you return to this comfort in... days? Come home and - please! And here. . ! It's nature! Romance! I think that at least once in your life you need to experience this yourself and then tell your children. In Okunevka, the coastal strip is also dirty after strong waves, when the dregs settled on the algae wash ashore. Having passed this muddy strip, 5-10 meters wide and waist-deep, again find yourself in the clear sea, and when you return home, you can wash it off in the shower. No problems! Another small minus is the narrow coast of a meter and a half, and there are even less, i. e. practically you lie near the water. And I repeat again - we grab places for everyone and everywhere. Need a spacious beach? Jump into the car and onto Belyaus or Gromovo! Don't forget your fins, mask and snorkel! Definitely a tube with a valve! And swim, swim, swim! You can also get there without a car, like me! Fall on someone's tail! Or, in the end, ask Sasha. If you ask Valya to cut boutiques for you and take a bottle with their own water, passing by melons and peaches, and grab them, then you can take off for the whole day!
. . . If Valya is our head of the pioneer camp, then Sasha (Valya's husband) can easily be called a LEADER! He also keeps the territory clean (I personally walked barefoot all two weeks and never pricked or injured my leg), he will be lucky on excursions and will tell you everything he knows (prices on their website - type OKUNYOVKA-TOUR), and in the evening you will be company, unless of course it is not completely tortured, on billiards, table tennis (a wonderful table, by the way! ) And badminton.

Lyrical digression. Why did I remember the USSR? Yes, because the owners are Ukrainians! To them and friends with the whole family by car from Ukraine come to relax and, simply, guests, and they lived normally! We communicated like human beings, played the same tennis and billiards... No one bent their fingers, much less jumped! They don't go here!
And the pioneer camp. . . Having met the first dawn on my veranda, that was my first thought! Like the good old days! And toilets (not to be confused with toilets), and showers, and washbasins - all in the yard! And it doesn't bother me and doesn't bother me! I like this, because I spent all my conscious childhood in the same camps near Moscow.
And I’ll add one more thing: cars, or rather car numbers - in addition to 82, the sea is 97 and 99, a bunch of 98. In our yard there were 46, the Samara family traveled (by the way, divers) - they started from Okunevka and returned here a week later.
Let's get back to geography. To the east of Okunevka, gently sloping sandy beaches begin, a real expanse for children! Shallow water without algae, room for children's shovels and buckets! Belyaus begins at 15 km. If there were palm trees, then you can easily confuse them with the Maldives or Hawaii - sand and the cleanest sea! Even purely theoretically, he has nothing to get dirty here! This is the steppe! Without industrial zones! No big cities! And in general, competitions (! ) in underwater photography are held here on Tarkhankurt! They even turn out to be!
In the other direction, to the west, the same Atlesh! Completely different coast! Do not be lazy and type in the search engine ATLESH and JANGUL. I don’t know how the video camera takes it, but the camera... Alas, it’s resting! He does not take all the beauty at once! Only pieces... Therefore, in between filming, I recommend sitting on the grass or a pebble and admire the sea, open spaces, miraculous beauty!
Ideally, of course, you have to go here in your car, sit down wherever you want, when you want and for as long as you want! Only do not forget to warn Valya or Sasha so that they leave you food.

I lived here for 13 days and, as always, on the penultimate day I found out that I had not yet been there, there and there! Didn't see this, this and this! I think that I will come here next summer and it would be great if my new friends from Moscow, Dnepropetrovsk were here and... I'll tell you later! Don't forget your mask, snorkel and fins!
I will keep the password for meeting Sasha at the AEROEXPRESS cafe the same: I am in a white windbreaker with a blue sports bag, he is with MURZILKA magazine for March 1986.
And off the cuff: if I hadn’t been chic, then in addition to the obligatory expenses (flight, accommodation), I would have spent only 2-4 thousand! For cherries, juices, wine… No more! So count and think: WHAT DO YOU WANT? ! Air conditioning and chic staircases or natural beauty? Personally, I choose the second!