- Crimea or Sochi - which is closer?
- Difference in climatic conditions
- Mountainous and lowland landscapes
- Beach activities and excursions
Many Russians every year face a big dilemma - where to spend their legal vacation, for example, in the Crimea or Sochi? The two most popular regions, located on the Black Sea coast, have a healing climate, are ready to demonstrate beautiful mountain and plain landscapes, offer rich excursion programs for historical and cultural attractions and an impressive list of entertainment. Moreover, they are completely different from each other, what is the difference, what are the advantages and disadvantages?
Crimea or Sochi - which is closer?
Transport links are, of course, better organized with Sochi, this is due to the last Olympics - there are flights and trains. By plane it is faster, but much more expensive, trains are slower, but prices are more affordable.
Crimea is a little more complicated. Planes fly, but even with subsidies, many Russians simply cannot afford tickets. You can get to Crimea in a cheaper way by ferry, the way is long and rather tiring.
Difference in climatic conditions
The second point that tourists should take into account is that Sochi and Crimea have different climates, that is, there are differences in indicators such as air humidity; average annual temperature; the number of sunny days per year.
In this regard, the Crimean climate is more favorable - it is dry, so hot days are more easily tolerated by tourists. It is very humid in Sochi, it often rains in the summer, which further increases this indicator, so the high air temperature is more difficult to endure. From the regions of Greater Sochi, the most favorable climate for children and elderly travelers is in Anapa, adults can choose any resort.
Mountainous and lowland landscapes
The beaches of Crimea and Sochi are quite diverse: there are sandy, pebble, with a mixed coverage. If you want beautiful mountain landscapes, cozy coves, a pebble beach, then you need to choose the eastern coast of Crimea (Alupka, Alushta, Yalta) or the area of Sochi itself.
Sandy beaches, gentle slope into the sea, good seabed are suitable for children. Such places in Crimea can be found in the western part, in the Yevpatoria region, and in Sochi - in the Anapa region.
Beach activities and excursions
As for the entertainment offered on the Crimean or Sochi beaches, there is a great deal of similarity. And there, and there the list is about the same: all kinds of water entertainment - catamarans, scooters, boats and boats, yachts and bananas, snorkeling, scuba diving and diving.
Excursion programs, of course, are different, but they are associated with natural beauties, monuments of history, architecture, culture. Crimea is famous for its ancient ruins, ancient medieval fortresses, luxurious palaces that appeared at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. The list of the most famous attractions: "Swallow's Nest" (Gaspra); Chersonesus Tauride (Sevastopol); Tsarsky Kurgan (Kerch); Livadia Palace, the summer residence of the last Russian emperor.
Sochi also has historical and cultural attractions, but not in such quantities as Crimea. The main excursions are associated with trips to nature reserves and beautiful places, including the Akhtyrskaya cave, the Bolshoi Akhun and Agepsta mountains, the Psakho river canyon.
But Sochi will give odds to all resorts of the Crimean peninsula in terms of the number of sports facilities and entertainment. The Winter Olympics allowed the city to significantly improve its sports facilities, open many ski resorts, stadiums and centers where you can practice all kinds of sports.
These two regions are in approximately equal conditions in terms of the number of entertainment centers for children. You can find water parks, dolphinariums, children's clubs, green areas, like the Fairy Tale Park in the Crimea or the Berendeeva Kingdom in the resort of Lazarevskoye (Big Sochi).
Yes, a tourist who is going to rest on the Black Sea coast faces a difficult task - to choose Crimea or Sochi. The advantages of the Crimean resorts:
- variety of beaches and beach landscapes;
- favorable climatic conditions;
- extensive health programs based on balneotherapy, various types of hydrotherapy, the use of mud from the Saki Lake;
- rich excursion program in historical places.
Advantages of the Greater Sochi resorts:
- stunning natural mountain landscapes;
- the presence of a large number of sports facilities and facilities;
- the opportunity to undergo a course of treatment with Matsesta mud;
- developed social infrastructure for children's recreation.
The choice of a resort still remains with the tourist and his family, and this will be the best vacation!
