Black Sea · Ukraine · Yalta
The Crimean Mountains are not high however picturesque as Mount Ay-Petri, for example. It is very interesting to travel in Ay-Petri where you can go up by an aerial ropeway with a lower station in Miskhor or along the beautiful road between Yalta, Ay-Petri and Bakhchisaray. Your weariness is left behind after you ascend the Mountain. The amazingly ...
Russia ·
Situated to the north from the Caucasus Mountain Ridge, Mount Elbrus is considered to be the highest peak in Russia and in the whole of Europe.
Mount Elbrus has other local names:
– Mingi Tau — Thousand Mountain (Karachay-Balkar);
– Uashkhemakhue — Mount of Happiness (Circassian);
– Jin-Padishah — King of Mountain Spirits (Turkic);
– Albar (...
Ukraine · Galich
Krylos Mountain is protected by a river and forests from three sides. This was the reason why the dukes of Halych chose it to be their capital and walled the southern open line with three ranges of defensive ramparts.
At the highest point of the town of Krylos there is a burial mound. It was made in honour of the leader of a Croatian tribe Khwal...
Black Sea · Ukraine · Simferopol
The Mramornaya Cave (literally translates as Marble Cave) is situated in the mountainous massif of Chatyr-Dag. The picturesque silhouette of this mountain is seen from very different points and distances and is considered to be a symbol of the Crimea.
The Chatyr-Dag plateau is dappled with numerous karst caverns making it look like the moon. Mor...
Black Sea · Abkhazia · New Athos
The picturesque nature of Abkhazia is rich in fantastic sights. One of the greatest miracles there is the famous New Athos Cave.
For many years, it had been hiding its secrets in the depths of the Iverian Mountain until it was finally discovered in 1961. In 1975, the "cave metro" carried its first tourists through the artificial tunnel going rig...
Moscow Oblast · Russia · Mytishchi
Pirogovskoye Reservoir is connected with Uchinskoye Reservoir with an artificial channel named after Moscow (located to the north from Pirogovskoye Reservoir). A dam is constructed in the west end of the Reservoir and the small Klyazma River flows out of it....
Ukraine · Galich
Since the dawn of time, the cold springs discharge their waters from below the surface on the north-west slope of Mount Krylos, just several hundred metres away from the Assumption Cathedral. There were just few springs and people took care of them. Special attention was given to one of them, existing nowadays, the Princely Well.
The well water ...
Europe · Iceland · Selfoss
Reykjadalur, or "Smoke Valley", is a beautiful, colourful, almost undiscovered valley with high-temperature geothermal activities, not very far from Reykjavik, the capital of Iceland. It is an absolute unspoiled pearl in Iceland's nature, where hot water flows down the slopes of Mount Hellisheidi and makes an ideal place to bathe in a virgin natura...
Europe · Iceland · Selfoss
Just outside the tiny town of Vik, Iceland three black basalt columns called the Reynisdrangar protrude from the stormy North Atlantic.
Legend has it that the rocks are three trolls, caught out too late and frozen by the early morning sunlight. From the wild black beach at the foot of Vik, the towers can be seen off the misty coast to the west. ...
Russia · Nizhny Lomov
Saloleyka is one of the most famous pilgrimage destinations in the Penza area situated in the forest four kilometres east of Lukina Polyana on the right bank of the Moksha River, in the forest district of Barabanov. In the ancient Finno-Ugric language, "saloleyka" means "a small gully brook flowing in the wild forest". The Dormition Convent was fou...
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