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    • - Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan)
    • - Vladivostok
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Sochi, Holiday All Year Round


Sochi is the only high quality Russian resort city located in the subtropics. Host to the Winter Olympics in 2014, Sochi is one of he best Snow-next-to-Beach resort in the world, a truly unique place and combination! More than 80% of the resort area is occupied by parks and gardens. The holiday season lasts all year round in Sochi. The average summer temperature is 26,5° and the average winter temperature is 8° above zero. Clean and spacious beaches stretch for 145 km of the Black Sea coastline. Sochi is a source for a unique type of healing Sulphur water, known as ’Macesta’ it provides for world wide fame to the region with travellers from across the world traveling to these water sources and spas. 

 

From Snow clad slopes to the Beach in 30 minutes - Another unique feature in the Sochi region is the Ski Resort Krasnaya Polyana which is the most popular ski resort in Russia. This resort is 30 minutes driving time from the beaches of Sochi. Modern hotels for more than 5000 guests were built here for the 2014 Winter Olympics. There are totally 44 tracks of varying difficulty categories of overall length of 62 km. Ropeways that stretch for almost a 100 Kilometres in many directions, night skiing, clubs dot this region of Sochi giving it many entertainment and adventure options. 

 

Architectural and historical monuments, natural monuments, national parks and caves, waterfalls, unique historical sites are located in the vicinity of the resort.  There is a wide range of entertainment choices for adventure-seekers: camping of any difficulty category, mountaineering and climbing, mountain biking, pot-holing, skiing, canyoning, horse riding and jeeping, trekking, rafting on mountain rivers ashore, windsurfing, diving, sailing, seaplane, jet ski on the water, paragliding, parachute jumping and host of other things in the air, private helicopter tours not withstanding.

 

The Oceanarium, dolphinariums, water parks, circus, parks with numerous exciting attractions, concert halls and theatres, nightclubs and open-air discos, specialty restaurants - everyone will find entertainment based on one’s own preference. Sochi is among the top ten Russian cities regarding cultural and business events. Numerous festivals, tours of Russian and foreign artists, world-class political and bilateral meetings are held in the city.

 

Holiday All year Round in Sochi a truly unique experience!

 

 

Welcome to Sochi!

 

 

10 must see sights in Sochi

 

1 . Sochi's quay is  a favorite walking place of Sochi’s  inhabitants and tourists. It begins from seaport and passes through sights and interesting places of the city.

 

2. The Sochi Arboretum  is the green treasury of the Russian subtropics numbering more than 2000 exotic and rare plants which are delivered in park from different corners of the world. Except of flora the arboretum is proud of rare animals and  birds living  there, and also a rope-way, with its impressive  mountains and  sea views which open up before your eyes on the top point of the arboretum .

 

3 . Mountain Big Ahun is the most popular place at vacationists and tourists in the Sochi area. The height is 663 meters above sea level.. It is located only in 3 km from the coast of the Black Sea. Every year more than 100 thousand people visit the stone tower constructed on its top to admire the Black Sea, the coast and the Caucasus Mountains.

 

4. Krasnaya Polyana  is one of the most beautiful corners of  the Western Caucasus and a unique ski resort of  Russia near the city of Sochi. Today it is a resort of the international level, a venue of all main competitions of the Winter Olympic Games of  2014.

 

5. Teahouses in Uch-Dere. In Sochi’s outskirts on slopes of the Caucasus Mountains  is grown the most northerly tea in the world. Here you will be able to taste and buy this tea, you can also  learn the history and features of its cultivation.

 

6 . The trout farm is the largest in Russia and one of the largest in Europe. Here you can get to know how to  grow up a trout, you will be able to see how fish (from a fry to the largest one weighing 4,5 kg.) splashes in ponds and how to feed a trout.

 

7. Vorontsov cave is an underground miracle of the nature. It’s one of the longest caves in Russia: lenght of the examined passages is 12,5 km, depth - 240 m.

 

8. Tiso-Samshitovaya (Yew-box tree)  grove is the natural open-air museum on the  slope of  Mountain  Ahun, located  in 2 km from the Black Sea. The main species  that grow here  are unique yew and  box.

 

9. Stalin's dacha in Sochi was Iosif Stalin's favorite dacha. Here still remain Stalin’s home decorations and furniture. On the first floor  is located the restaurant where  you can  try magnificent dishes of  Caucasian cuisine and also Stalin's favorite dishes.

 

10. The Valley of legends ( 33 waterfalls). In the picturesque gorge there are short numerous falls, rapids and waterfalls which attract  a lot of tourists.

 

Our Visit to Sochi, October 2017:





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