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’.