In Kaniv

In the autumn we traveled to Kaniv - a city in the central Ukraine. It is located on the right bank of the river Dnipro. Here was built one of the largest Ukrainian hydroelectric power station. That is why storage reservoir, which stretches to the southern border of the capital of Ukraine, called the Kaniv Reservoir.
There is another interesting fact about the city. It has a long history - Kaniv mentioned in chronicles since 1144. The most ancient building, which has been preserved to our days is Uspenski Cathedral. It was built 866 years ago. And it was the temple where was held funerals for Taras Shevchenko, the man-symbol of Ukraine.
So, we had an interesting walk in Kaniv. Walking the town I made a lot of photos: about some interesting places, in particular monument of Ivan Pidkova, about Dnipro, and, of course, about beautiful autumn flowers. Here some of them:

Kaniv historical museum

Uspenski Cathedral, which was built 866 years ago


Right bank of river Dnipro


Monument to the legendary Cossack Ivan Pidkova

Bouquet of autumn flowers

But the most interesting materials about this travel will be published in the next post.

In Yalta

Our last camp was made near the final point of our travel - Yalta. The slope of the mountain has appeared to be too inclined so we set up our tents just on the forest road. No one went this road until the morning, so we had got quiet night.
In the morning we went to Yalta - one of the most popular cities in the southern coast of Crimean peninsula. Our tourist trip with backpacks and tens was over and we finally could enjoy a simple walk in the center of this beautiful city. We also went to the city quay and saw Black Sea. A few hours later we leaved Yalta by mountain trolleybus (the longest trolleybus line in Europe) and returned to Simferopol.
Here are some photos from the last day of our travel.

Our camp near Yalta


Vineyards

In the center of the city

Yalta Quay

The Black Sea

See more photos from the last day of our travel in photoalbums here and here.

Yaltynska yaila

The next stage of our travel was the most higher in the whole trip. For more then an hour we were going along Yaltyska yaila into clouds at a high of 1300-1500 meters. The road ran on the edge of yaila. And if the weather was good we would see a broad landscape on the south with the Black See on the horizon.
Thus, only when we went mountain Djady-Burun and started to come down from yaila, we left the clouds and we could at least see all the landscapes below. They were amazing. You just can see in these pictures:

A road on Yaltynska yaila


Our group


Rocks on the edge of yaila


View on Yalta from yaila


View on the Black Sea coast

More photos of this part of our travel see here and here

To be continued

Going to Kemal-Egerek

The next part of our route went from river Kacha up to one of the highest Crimean mountains - Kemal-Egerek (1529 m.). We increased the high on more then 1100 meters.
It was about 5 pm. when we crossed Kacha. So we decided to climb Kemal-Egerek the next day. That's why we made our camp on the half of this way - at the tourist stand Kermen (about 800 m.). There we found few wonderful meadows and a source with good water.
Next morning the weather vanished. Around us all was in the clouds. Rained. Clouds and rain followed us till the top of Kemal-Egerek. Thus, even when we had climbed on yaila near mountain Utch-Tash, we still could not see anything around. But we saw many beautiful flowers near the road and amazing rock Djambek-Burun not far from the top. So, at 12.30 we reached Kemal-Egerek. Here are some photos from album "Climbing yaila" and "Kemal-Egerek".

First summit after crossing Kacha

Forest in the clouds

Stones and flowers

Rock Djambek-Burun

On the top of Kemal-Egerek

To be continued