Simferopol - the first city on the Crimean Peninsula, which I got, going out at the station. It is a pity that there is no sea in the city. This is his only minus, otherwise he could be a unique seaside resort. But it all does not matter when there are quiet cozy streets, interesting buildings of architecture, from here takes its beginning a unique trolleybus to Yalta. Anything, nothing, drive more than 3 hours, and Yalta embankment at your feet.
Architecture honestly confess, did not particularly please and impressed. Familiar from Simferopol, though he compared him with Odessa, but I personally did not seem so at all. There are a lot of echoes in the city from the past era, the old buses are still passing through the streets. Monuments, buildings - all together combined into a single lifestyle ensemble, suffered slightly ruin. In the city of Eat Avenues, Streets, Old Building, new supermarkets contrast with small shops. Low buildings in the historic part of the city and the Soviet architecture.
In the second trip it turned out that the bus stations as in any big city with an important center of transport junction, several. It was amazing that it was impossible to immediately immediately take and leave at the desired point, because only stepping on the Perron Simferopol, you will be surrounded by many sentences to take you to Gurzuf, Saki, Feodosia, Yalta. And all this is only with us, only at the biggest discount, already we are going, let's have your suitcases.
And in order to go not to the usual resorts, which are offered at the exit from the train, but a little further, it is worth driving through the entire city and in another area there will be a bus station from which buses are sent. We spontaneously decided at the station to go to the village of Sokolina. There is a unique attraction - a large Canyon of Crimea, but not takai, as in America - orange rocks and a scorching sun, but in vegetation, trees, greens. With healing sources, rivers and reservoirs. So it turned out that no one knows how to go to this village. In one place they suggested that it was possible from another bus station, go there on trolleybus. We arrived at our own risk and risk, and after 10 minutes they were already sent further.
And also the first calm was remembered at a completely unaccounted station. We drove to Simferopol by the bus from Sevastopol at your own risk with a margin of 15 minutes. Any jam on the road would leave us for a day in this city. Renting to the station, we went down to the underground transition, to access the platform, and there after a huge shower, water flows straight from the ceiling. Moreover, a very strong jet and you can either pass through this waterfall, or not to get to your train, there is no way to around the way. People in panic try to run on two parallel arrivals. We do not find our train, panic begins. In general, after a 30 minute-time running, when, judging by time, our train has already left, after disassembling at the checkout and the reference station, it turned out that because of the shower, all trains are delayed, they did not even come and when they would be unknown. Next, of course, Happy End.
These were my impressions from the huge Crimean transport junction. Where everyone falls, and from where the rested, with a surprisingly beautiful Crimean tan, many souvenirs, and the most important memories and impressions.