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Review of Evpatoria (8.07. 2011 - 21.07. 2011) from tourists from Russia
ABOUT SIGHTS OF YEVPATORIA
The main purpose of our trip to Evpatoria was not to wallow on the sea with beach sausages, but to survey the sights of Crimea. To this end, we visited 3 excursions in Evpatoria, and 3 large field trips.
About the tour on double-decker convertible buses…
They have a sump near the hotel "Ukraine", where they collect money and put them on the bus. Worth 70 gr. per person. Lasts about 1.5 hours. You can visit if you have just arrived in Evpatoria and do not know the city at all. Just drive through the main sights of the city with a small exit from the bus at the old town. Of course, this tour is not as informative as a walking tour, although it costs more. Local guides call it a hack. Although it was from her that we learned what exactly is worth seeing in Evpatoria, and what is located where... I do not recommend taking these excursions later than 19.00, because. during the tour it gets dark and you won’t see half of it, because most of it you will see from the bus…
About walking tours around the city...
The sightseeing kiosks offer tours of the Crimea anywhere, but not on foot in Evpatoria. If you want to visit a walking tour of Evpatoria, I recommend asking around who can conduct it. We were lucky, on Frunze Street we were given the phone number of a guide who conducted excursions from some sanatorium. We phoned her. We were happily accepted into the group. And so we went on a walking tour of the old city with a visit to the Karaim kenas and an excursion to Tekie-dervish (the abode of dervishes).
Of course, when you come to Evpatoria, you should definitely listen and see all this: the 2500-year history of the city, the crooked streets of the old Gezlev, the Gezlev gates - part of the wall of the 15th century, the functioning Juma Khan Dzhami mosque, the functioning Orthodox church of St. Nicholas (the second largest in Crimea), Tekie-dervish (the abode of dervishes), a functioning synagogue, Karaite kenasas.
Many of these sites can be visited on your own, inside there are daily excursions for tourists, but with a guide it is still more informative. And you can go on an excursion to the mosque, and to the kenasas, and to the tekies. Also in the old city I saw ancient Turkish baths, which you can also visit...
On some day of the week, musical excursions are held in Tekie-dervish - everyone is seated in the ruins of a string tekie and they demonstrate the music of dervishes and the whirling of dervishes...
The city has a functioning museum-pharmacy and a museum-post office, as well as a museum of local lore, though we didn’t go to it...
Having visited the old city with a guide, we then went there ourselves 3 more times, including on Friday. On Fridays at 18.00, large-scale festivities unfold there with the sale of souvenirs, paintings, stones, choirs, dance groups, a theater on stilts and a fire show...
About excursions in Crimea...
What is sold in the kiosks with excursions are all long excursions for 10-14 hours. Evpatoria is very far from all excursion programs and all excursions are designed for 10-14 hours. It's very tiring. At least 2 hours are delivered to the place of the excursion, then they are dragged for 8-10 hours in the heat, then again at least 2 hours to go back to Evpatoria. There are no excursions to any one object, they all include 3-4 objects, with transfers from one city to another... We could only endure three such long excursions, although if they were not so tiring, we would have visited 5-6...