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olgaehr Says: Love this gardens. Even though I live in a country with plenty of exotic plants, this is still beautiful and special to me. This used to be one of the major botanical gardens in Soviet Union (probably still is). Just go there and take a nice long walk in on a sunny day.
Kuznetsov_Sergey Says: Westwards to the Seaside Park, nearer to Yalta, another park is situated on Cape Ay-Todor. Aboriginal species - downy oak, tall juniper - grow together with relic coniferous exotic plants: numerous species of pine-tree from different countries of the world, metasequoia with...
Kuznetsov_Sergey Says: The Seaside Park is the best protected by neighboring mountain crests. The climate is milder here and that is why the most heat-loving evergreens are presented in this part of the garden: various palm-trees, cedar and osmantuses, mastic pistachio-tree, numerous brightly...
Kuznetsov_Sergey Says: In the Lower Park of the garden grows Californian oak (it cannot be met anywhere else in Russia and Ukraine). In Nikitsky garden there are also Allepian pine-tree, Numidian (Algerian) silver-tree, grass-leaved Californian oak and Arizonian cypress, Virginian juniper and the...
Kuznetsov_Sergey Says: The excursion around Nikita gardens begins in the Upper Park, where along the skillfully put into shape alleys, one can meet the plantations, the species of which were delivered from all the continents of the Earth: bamboo from Nothern China, evergreen stone oak, powerful...
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You’d better make it from Yalta by a fixed-route taxi N34, trolley buses N2 and N3. Boats from Yalta, but the road from a mooring up to the park is rather long and tiresome. There are two roads - old (Lower) and new (Upper).
Nikitski Botanical Garden is situated about 7 km. from the Yalta Sea Port (20-30 minutes by coach). Visiting of the Gardens should to be done on foot also.
We arrived to the garden by a minibus which we rented together with the driver for all time of our visiting of Yalta. It has appeared very convenient. Thanks to the driver Dima we had time to see during one day so many sights that is usually possible to see for two or even three days. So in the day of visiting of the Nikitsky garden we have already visited Massandra and Livadia Palaces. And the excursion to wine cellars was waiting for us in the evening.
This pleasure (rent of transport) is not so cheap. But for five person (we had a rest five together) it was normal.
Updated Apr 1, 2007
Kuznetsov_Sergey Says: I often ask this question having appeared in clean and well-groomed Europe. I ask this question having appeared in any fine place in Russia (or Ukraine just the same), littered and dirtied by locals or tourists. The Nikitsky garden is just such a place. It is possible to...
Kuznetsov_Sergey Says: Characteristic parts of the Crimean landscape are skeletons of buildings which did not completed even from the Soviet times. These constructions began 15-20 years ago. They had to be turn to sanatorias and rest houses. But the Soviet Union disintegration has not allowed...
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The mountain Aju-Dag (in translation from Turkish it means the Bear-mountain) is one more symbol of the Crimea. This mountain on the outlines is similar to a bear drinking water from the Black sea.
The legend tells about huge bears lived here long ago. Once a little girl has got to these bears. She remained to live with bears. They liked to listen to her singing. The little girl has grown up. Once, when bears went away on hunting, the young man came there and saw a beautiful girl. He took her away. Bears, trying to return fugitives, began to drink water.
Then the girl started singing. The bears fascinated by singing lifted heads and only the main bear immersed his muzzle in the sea more deeply and finally he hardened with grief peering in a sea distance.
Updated Apr 1, 2007
Nikita Botanical Gardens excursion
Kuznetsov_Sergey Says: We recommend beginning a survey with the Upper Park. Then you will go downwards, and excursion will not be such tiresome if it begins with the Lower Park and you have to rise upwards.It is opened daily 8.00-19.00. The greenhouse is opened 9.00-16.00. Entrance fee 20 grivnas...
Nikita Botanical Gardens History
Kuznetsov_Sergey Says: The Garden is about 200 years old.The edict of the founding of Imperial botanical garden at the public cost in the Crimea was signed in Petersburg on the 10th of June, 1811 with the active participation of scientist-botanist, inspector in silkworm breeding on the South of...
Nikitsky Garden is the place which one would like to visit more than once. I happened to make it twice. First - in far 1967, second - in 2007. It is like a museum, where the great masters' works have...
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