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PHOTOS FROM THE CRIMEA
SUMMER, 2006
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This is downtown Simferopol on a hot August afternoon. |
Not much going on here today. |
This is the Khan's palace in Bahcesaray. As you will see in other photos, the landscape around Bahcesaray is quite interesting. |
This was taken from inside the courtyard of the Khan's palace. |
A fountain on the second floor inside the building from the previous photograph. |
Me in front of one of the palace's entryways. |
A sitting room inside the palace. |
Another small building on the palace grounds. |
A view of the courtyard from inside one of the buildings. |
Outside the palace walls |
Mountains and caves outside Bahcesaray |
More of the same |
The Uspensky cave monastery, outside Bahcesaray. It is built into the mountain, and the inside of the church consists of several caves. |
This was taken as we walked up the footpath to still more caves. |
More cliffs |
This was taken at the top of the footpath, which went all the way up to a series of caves located about a half mile beyond the cliffs in the previous photo. |
This was shot from the mouth of one of the caves. |
Somewhere, Sevastopol is supposed to be in the distance. |
Another shot from on high. |
In front of the port at Sevastopol |
Sunset from Sevastopol. This is the background photo for this website's homepage. |
Sevastopol in the afternoon |
Yalta! This shot was taken from a boat taking us on an excursion to another point on the peninsula. |
This is pretty much the same shot |
A bit further away |
The "Swallow's Nest," an overcrowded tourist trap near Yalta. Nice to see from afar, though. |
On the jetty around Yalta. |
The islet from the previous photograph is in the background, to my left. |
Alupka Palace, which was owned by M.S. Vorontsov, viceroy of the Caucasus |
A shot from the palace's gardens. |
Again, from Alupka |
A path takes you down from the gardens to the seaside. |
Shot of the landscape with my back to the sea. |
Taken from the sea on the jetty back to Yalta. |
Ditto |
This shot was taken from the hotel balcony. |
Good times in Yalta |
One of my favorite Lenin statues anywhere, located in a very pretty setting. |
A crowded sea in Sudak, on the southeast coast of Crimea |
And an even more crowded beach. |
View of the sea from outside Sudak. 'Sudak' is the name of a type of fish, but I was told this city got its name from the Crimean Tatar words "Su" ('water') and "dag" ('mountain'). |
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From Sudak we took a little boat to a slightly less overcrowded beach. The trips there and back were gorgeous. |
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The Genoese fortress in Sudak. Where did the Genoese not go? |
Genoese horse |
More from the fortress |
From inside the fortress |
Fortress and sea |
Take me back to Simferopol! |
Back home in Simferopol--and not much has changed. |
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