Travel Yalta

Yalta is quite a small city with the population of about 100 thousand people. But Yalta city is the administrative centre of a whole resort district named the Bigger Yalta. The Bigger Yalta stretches for 72 kilometers from Foros in the west to Mount Ayu Dag in the east. The Bigger Yalta includes Alupka, Gurzuf, Livadia, Oreanda, Gaspra, Koreiz, Miskhor, Simeiz, Foros, Otradnoye, Massandra, Nikita, Katsyveli, Goluboy Zaliv (Blue Lagoon), Ponizovka, Kikeniiz (Mukhalatka), Opolznevoye, Oliva, Beregovoye (Kastropol). The biggest parks of Yalta are Massandrovskiy, Livadiyskiy, Miskhorskiy, Alupkinskiy.

Beaches of Bigger Yalta stretch for 59 kilometers, their area is 600 thousand square meters. Beaches of Southern Coast are mostly deep and pebble. The western part of the coast from Cape Aya to Cape Ay Todor (With Lastochkino Gnezdo – Swallow Nest) has picturesque hills and rocky chaoses, small bays with clear and clean waters, gravel and pebble beaches, sometimes with quite big solid magma boulders or marble limestone rocks. To the east of Ay Todor quiet bays give place to mighty capes. Yalta, Gurzuf and Partenit are located on the coasts of big semicircular bays bordered with mountain amphitheatres of evergreen parks near the coast and fir-tree forests in the mountains.

Yalta sights:

Lastochkino Gnezdo (Swallow Nest)