Sights in Sudak
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Novy Svit Beach
Although 7km outside Sudak, the beach at Novy Svit Beach is very much part of the same experience. In high season, buses and marshrutky wind regularly across the slightly hairy but breathtakingly gorgeous mountain road connecting Sudak with this popular satellite. Each bus is jam-packed with day-trippers coming to water-ski, jet-ski, scuba dive, hire pedalos and swim.
Whether in the high season or the more relaxed and arguably more amenable shoulder period, Novy Svit bay is generally considered to have some of the best beachfront in Crimea. And that's not just because there's sand, albeit of a greyish complexion; it's also because of its scenic setting between the 474m Mt…
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Novy Svit Botanic Reserve
Once you alight at Novy Svit, most amenities are clearly signposted or easily apparent. However, it’s worth knowing about the Novy Svit Botanic Reserve winding around the base of Mt Orel. This path takes you on a picturesque, if rather slippery, coastal walk through a seaside grotto where local 19th-century tycoon Prince Holitsyn used to hold high-society parties. Today there’s a funfair atmosphere down here, with costumes hired out for photos and a famous bungee-jump type contraption, where brave – or perhaps foolhardy? – souls swing on a rope over the mouth of the grotto for just 20uah. It’s called ‘the leap into the future’.
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Genoese Fortress
Its vertiginous location is one of the major appeals of Sudak’s Genoese Fortress. This once impregnable complex is perched on a massive seaside cliff and in true Ukrainian fashion you’re allowed to clamber all over it, at times perhaps unsafely.
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