Lisya Bay (Sudak)

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Lisya Bay is a gulf between Kara Dag and Meganom Mountains. The coast of Lisya Bay between the villages of Solnechnaya Dolina (Sunny Valley) and Kurortnoye (Resort) is sparsely inhabited.

Lisya Bay is about 4 to 5 km (2.49 to 3.11 miles) in length. The Ecki Dag Mountain Ridge (translates as Goat Mountain from the Crimean Tatar language) is on the coast of the Bay. The Ecki Dag has tow peaks: Kokus Qaya (Turkey Mountain) that is 570 metres (1,870.08 feet) high and Qara Oba (Black Hill) of 670 metres (2,198.16 feet) in height. Mount Ecki Dag is one the highest mountains in the neighbourhood.

Lisya Bay has high-relief terrain with great differences in level up to several hundreds metres. Here are a lot of plateaus, hills and cliffs. Near Mount Ecki Dag there are two springs (the Upper Spring and the Lower Spring), and the famous Ukho Zemli (Ear of the Earth), the cave of over 100 metres (328.08 feet) in depth. It is also interesting to know that Lisya Bay is underpopulated. There are no buildings but tents only, the number of which is growing every year. The area has few earth roads.

In summer time, several mobile shops with poor choice of food are open and make a small market on the coast. Lisya Bay has one of the most popular naturist beaches on the southern coast of the Crimea.

In 2007, the Supreme Soviet of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea adopted a resolution to declare Lisya Bay, the adjacent natural site and offshore zone a vicinal landscape reserve "Lisya Bay — Ecki Dag".

Some of the slopes and paths of the Lisya Bay coast are very scarp and dangerous.

Generous amount of volcanic clay used for therapeutic bathing is found in Lisya Bay.

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