Sochi was many times. From the attractions of this beautiful city for me the most impression always leaves the park "Arboretum".
The entrance to the park with a beautiful rother is located in the resort prison (stop "Circus").
Fountains, pools, ponds, gazebos, sculptures, alleys - all this in combination with a huge mass of green spaces of a wide variety of exotic species - palm trees, pines, oaks, bamboo, cypresses ...
A park, based on nobleman, playwright S.N. Khudyakov, more than 100 years old. The creator in the park has a monument-bust.
"Arboretum" is an immense, in one day it cannot be circumvented.
It has two parts - the top park and the lower park located on the mountainside and separated by the resort avenue and the underground transition.
There is a cable car. I always use it when visiting "Arboretum". You sit in the booth, and soon you find yourself at the highest point of the upper park. There is an observation deck where you can climb and see from the height of the city, the sea, the mountains. View stunning!
And then descend from the mountain down, admiring the beautiful compositions of the plants and the creations of a person.
I confess, the upper part of the park ensemble I like more than the bottom one.
It is more festive, bright, luxurious in terms of arrangement, which is only worth the central alley with palm trees, cypresses;
Villa Khudyakova "Hope" with white terraces, stairs, cast-iron vases, a variety of sculptural compositions;
fountains "fairy tale", "Cupid", "boy with fish";
Arbor - Love, Moorish ...
The lower part of the park is more darkened, chamber with a natural pond, where ducks are floating, swans; bamboo; Sculptures "Neptune", "Adam and Eve", "Boy sitting on a stone", fragrant rosary ...
The park has an ostrich farm, aquarium, many different corners for recreation.
You need to visit this paradise!