Rested in Abkhazia, in New Athos, last year. Very calm, beautiful quiet city with plenty of attractions in urban trait available without buying excursions and long-distance trips. Due to the fact that the resort is located on the border of the Russian Federation than Pitsunda or Gagra, there are not many tourists in the season here, and the prices for housing and food are not too high. The accommodation in the private sector can be removed from 350 rubles a day, and it will be a pretty decent room in a house of 6 - 8 rooms, 5 - 10 minutes walk from the sea. The guest room or the hotel will cost several times more expensive.
The beaches in the new Athos are with a large and small pebbles, and closer to the departure from the city, near the hotel "by the sea", begins sand and pebble, with a sandy entrance to the water.
There is one wonderful place on the shore - a pebble beach, surrounded by an eucalyptus grove, is located next to the Mandarin's boarding house, we went there several times to swim there, due to the perfectly special air smelling with sea freshness and eucalyptus. Public beaches are practically not equipped with sun beds, the shower is not found, the cabins for dressing up are rare, but all this is compensated by a remarkably clean beach and transparent sea. On any newaafon beach, very clean sea water - the bottom can be seen, even when you enter the neck.
All urban attractions can be watered on foot, not in a hurry, in a few days. If you start your way from the Primorsky Park, which is very beautiful in itself, the main pride of the man-made lakes arranged here by the monks in 1880 are considered. Swans in one float, and right in the middle there is a cafe.
After passing through the park, to the left, you can go outside the street of Ashba to a small market, followed by the waterfall and the ancient temple of the Holy Apostle Simon Kananita. If after examining the temple to go a little further, you can see the old one, not a valid, the railway station "Psyrsha", standing almost on the river, in honor of which it was called. A wonderful, but a little abstract landscape - the joy of the photographer.
Having passed through the same seaside park, but taking a little right, you get on a very cool road going up, which is called a cypress alley, you can get to the newaafi caves and the monastery. In order not to get confused, where and what expensive, you can contact the tourist center, which is located on Lacoba Street in House No. 42, in the same center you can contact about the rental housing - the choice of housing here is very good, it is a pity that Late learned about such an opportunity.
Regarding the power, I can say that the proposals here clearly exceed the demand, cafes and dining rooms here is a great set. In the center of the city, on the square of martial glory and next to the Swan Lake in the Primorsky Park, there are tablets, in which it is good to have dinner at 100 - 150 rubles per person. In the cafe of the Primorsky Park or those that are on the embankment and on the street. Lacoba, more expensive in two times. Fruits and vegetables can be bought at the market at the railway station or on the embankment.
We like New Athos. Some are trying to compare rest in Abkhazia with Turkey, but it seems to me that it is wrong - these are two completely different countries. Abkhazia is a wonderful nature, mountain rivers, waterfalls, monuments of antiquities, active, independent rest, and Turkey is a more passive vacation, beach with All Inclusive and organized excursions.