This beautiful corner attracts tourists not so much with wine tasting or enchanting nature, but with legends of the Crimea and fabulous stories about the sights that Bakhchisarai literally overgrew.
Distance Sevastopol - Bakhchisaray
As a rule, tourists arrive at the Sevastopol railway station and from this point the journey begins all over the Crimea. If you plan to go on an excursion, there will be no problems, since you will be picked up directly at the agreed place. If you plan a trip with your car, it is worthwhile in advance on the map to chart the best route for yourself. If you move along the shortest path, the distance from Sevastopol turns out to be only 41 km and in less than an hour, you will be in the right place of Bakhchisaray.
Sights of Bakhchisaray - favorite corners of Crimea
The visiting card of Bakhchisaray can rightfully be called Chufut-Kale . This cave city is one of many, but it is most to the heart of tourists. Chufut-Kale is an obligatory part of any excursion to Bakhchisaray. A unique combination of the work of man and nature, because impregnable cliffs and fortifications turned out to be quite a durable alliance.
Travel to the Holy Dormition Monastery is very popular in Bakhchisaray, and all Orthodox try to visit there once in a lifetime. The monastery is beautiful in itself, and the atmosphere there is such that the memories remain for a long time.
Most of the excursions in Bakhchisaray involve several of the most famous places. But some so-called wine excursions are very popular, because there is not only tasting, but you can see the process of creating a wine. A trip to the Bakhchisaray winery will be informative in terms of winemaking, because the experts will tell you many interesting subtleties of the vine cultivation, and even after the tasting right next to the production you can buy the wine you liked at the company store.
And of course, no trip to Bakhchisarai is complete without visiting the Khan's Palace, the former residence of the Crimean khans. This architectural complex is worth a visit also because it is the only example of Tatar architecture in the world, which means that it is of universal importance. On the territory of the palace there are quite a lot of interesting tourist sites, including a mosque, several buildings of the palace (including a kitchen and a harem house), a falconry tower, a cemetery,
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