Sacred and unusual places in Crimea

There is beach tourism when there are golden sand and the gentle sea, bright sun loungers and cool cocktails. There is event tourism when a traveler goes to some significant place where a holiday will take place (festival, theater, exhibition, rally). There is historical and cultural tourism when they “hunt” for monuments of architecture and art, visit house museums, historical buildings, etc.

The very meaning of the word "sacred" indicates the divine, mystical, inexplicable, irrational. These things differ from the ordinary, cannot be logically meaningful. It is believed that strong sacred places are needed for communication with higher matters, with supernatural and otherworldly forces. A sacred place can be buildings, natural objects (most often), structures, which are inexplicable either in origin or in energy. More often it is a geographic local object, one or more to which the sacred word can be applied.

Crimea is a vast territory full of silent witnesses of time, eras, climatic changes and social revolutions. The very description of the Crimea, its complex history suggests that there are definitely energy places here.Therefore, esotericists, religious people, as well as those who know how to enrich themselves with the intangible, come here. And there are many such objects to visit!

It can not be called a secret, rare place where a tourist’s foot doesn’t go so often. On the contrary, this is one of the visiting cards of the Crimea, but with it far from “everything is clear”. Therefore, the mountain today attracts the attention of archaeologists and esotericists. Until now, it is not clear exactly what age the mountains are: from 140 to 160 million years, modern scientists give it.

From the analysis of the soil, it became clear that its bulk is volcanic rock with inclusions of rare minerals. Mountains of this type are called laccoliths. Interestingly, such a composition of the earth's crust is not inherent in the peninsula, which means that the mountain is not a mainland. It was formed at the place where the lava emerged from the ground at the time of the shift of the tectonic layers during a large-scale catastrophe of a very long period.

Ayu-Dag is unique in that It is a natural mineralogical open-air museum. Amethyst, pyrite, black tourmaline, vesuvian, lomontin - these are the stones that fill the bowels of Ayu-Dag.

The Grand Canyon of Crimea is another iconic place, a unique natural site located in the Crimean Mountains near the village of Sokolinogo. There is a famous hiking trail, traditional for mass excursions, not very long. But there is another place in this territory - path to Mount Boyko, to the ruins of the Ancient Sanctuary (it may be called the Cathedral of Christ the Savior). Tourists do not go here, even stalkers do not take strangers to this place. It is located here entrance to Shambhala, which, according to some sources, was searched by the NKVD and German special forces.

If you are not so radical, then the very journey through the Grand Canyon, quite traditional, can also become a place of power for you. These are incredibly beautiful landscapes that cannot leave you indifferent. At the end of the trip, you may feel tired, as if the nature of Crimea took away your strength, but in the morning you will see, she answered you a lot more, you will be filled with new energy.

There are in Crimea Arbor of the winds - this place is advertised, an attentive tourist who visited the peninsula could visit her more than once, but if this is not a mystery of the peninsula, then it’s definitely a place with its own questions. This is a snow-white small building, decorating the rock of Shagan-Kai over Gurzuf. Its name is possibly associated with a mosaic floor ornament that resembles a rose of winds. And the very arrangement of the gazebo is consonant with the name: here on top, it's always cool and windy.

Tourists who are not looking for easy ways love to visit this place. To ascend here, you need to go through a not-so-easy route, but the view from the cliff will pay off in full. Many iconic places can be seen from here - the jagged line of the peaks of Ayu-Dag, the famous "Artek", the handsome Gurzuf, Adalary. Climbing here, you make a mini climb, therefore, you have every right to make a wish. Mystery is this or something else, but, they say, desires tend to come true very quickly. Just formulate them as accurately as possible, streamlined forms of the desired turn into strange forms of realization.

Cemetery, graveyard - non-tourist routes or, one might say, not the most popular of them. Mystical experiences and negative associations are far from all that can be associated with burial sites. If they are old, then this is a historical object, informative and informative and special from the point of view of energy.

Because people are interested in ancient cemeteries, for example, such as The large Karaite cemetery of Balta Tiimeiz in the Jehoshaphat Valley.

This place of repose is not just hundreds of years old - it is more than a thousand. The number of tombstones that the researchers studied is about 10,000. Of course, in such a place, a completely unusual, special atmosphere. Here it’s not scary, here the sensors are aggravated, time slows down, the internal dialogue with himself intensifies. I want to find answers to long-tormenting questions, I want to at least somehow talk with eternity.

More recently, the Internet literally blew up a movie called the “Gravity Anomaly in Crimea”. Events unfold there on the twentieth kilometer of the Alushta-Feodosiya highway. True, if you revise the video with the cyclist several times, exposing his riddle becomes closer and closer. The cyclist is trying to roll down, and the visible display of the road suggests that he really does. But the transport seems to slow down and not go. But when he starts to go uphill, the bike rides perfectly itself. The hero of the video throws up his hands in surprise.

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Specialists, who have repeatedly tried to decipher what is happening on the video, tend to see here not unusual gravity, but simply optical illusion. The human visual analyzer, with all its interesting and complex structure, is imperfect. He catches one, losing sight of the other, roughly speaking, we see schemes, patterns. Therefore, due to the objects surrounding the highway, we see a person rolling downhill, although in reality there is a descent in this place.

It turns out that The illusion of gravitational anomalies is created by landscape objects. A similar phenomenon is observed in Lake Wells, in Florida. A highway runs along the mountain, the slopes and rises of which also confuse people who think that cars are moving up after the brakes are turned off. But you can challenge this boring version and see what really happens in this place.

Even if they are on the map, many tourists are in no hurry to visit these places. Someone is not very sure that it is really interesting there, someone thinks that once again you should not disturb the mysterious corners of the Crimea.

It is difficult to imagine a list of esoteric places without the Valley of ghosts of Mount Demerdzhi. Of course, those who love mountains and cannot imagine a vacation without trekking or mountain climbing will say - each mountain is individual, unique, it is not worth comparing the highest points. But Demerdzhi is really unusual: she herself is like a ghost. If you stand with your back to the mountain and look at it in the mirror, it is like reincarnating.

The slopes of the mountain were covered with huge stone sculptures, which are involved in creating a mystical picture. The mountain shrouded in fog has one silhouette, on a sunny day it looks completely different. The light of the sun constantly creates a new color landscape. This is a mountain-chameleon, on which idols are still wondering, now approaching a tourist, then soaring up to heaven.

If the topic of post-apocalypse is close to you, and the terrible, dangerous places associated at least aesthetically with this topic are of interest to you, you should visit the abandoned nuclear power plant in Crimea. You can find it on the Kerch Peninsula. At one time, it became an urban development object, for the sake of which Shchelkino was built. And when the station was 90% ready, they simply did not manage to launch it. This happened in connection with the tragedy at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.

The vast territory and the efforts of a considerable number of specialists associated with it remained a ghost - this is a forgotten page in Soviet history, of which there are many. Much, of course, was stolen and taken out, but the huge walls, the skeletal skeleton among the scorched steppe, are frightening with their lack of demand. Once Kazantip’s “Atomic Parties” were held here, the station was sold in parts, and it was transferred “from hand to hand”. For more than 2 years, the idea has been put forward for implementation to create a new industrial park on this territory.

And such an object will surely interest many lovers of secret and secret places. True, the base can no longer be called an unknown object - now it acts like a museum, open to visitors. There is a base in Sevastopol. Abandoned military facility number 221 attracts diggers, tourists with wide interests and just adventure seekers. There is something to see here: underground tunnels with depressing and frightening gloom, but as if luring farther and farther away, secret structures and rooms that were completely plundered.

If the uncharted and sacred zones should, in your opinion, be connected with paganism, ancient rites, not completely unraveled by symbolism, you are unlikely to miss the opportunity to visit the Temple of the Sun on Mount Ilyas-Kaya, near Laspi. The temple resembles a flower, only its petals are stone. They are located so that the rays of the sun fall on the central stone. By the way, in this place, for unknown reasons, the equipment often fails.

There is a legend that during the Second World War the Nazis tried to solve the riddle of the place so that its energy would help them establish world power. But the mountain did not let people who came with bad thoughts use its power to the detriment of humanity. The Nazis went missing. When you approach the Temple, you will see an altar in the middle of a stone flower, where offerings are regularly brought.

It is difficult to say whether the placebo effect works or if the energy of an ancient, unsolved place cannot really be discounted. As long as the path does not heal, it can be judged that people find what they came for. And this is the best advertisement for Crimean riddles. Places of power, energetically powerful objects, territories and buildings, the look of which makes not only consciousness but also the subconscious, always find those who are interested in such intangible things. And Crimea is full of them! It is worth arriving in one place, as they will immediately tell you about another, no less interesting. Such travels are never forgotten.

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