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