A Glance Through The Baydar Gate

The Baydar Gate (elevation 503 metres or 1,650 feet) is a mountain pass in the Crimean Mountains connecting the Baidar Valley with the Black Sea coast. It is enclosed by Mount Chelebi (657 m) and Mount Ckhu-Bair (705 m) and provides a view over a coast of Foros.
The old Yalta-Sevastopol highway (currently called Sevastopol highway), dating from the 1830s and seldom used today, passes through here. When the highway was completed in 1848, the so-called Propylaea were built of local limestone to commemorate the event. This Neoclassical gate offers scenic views, including that of the picturesque Foros Church set atop a 400-metre cliff overlooking the sea coast.

The other day me and a friend of mine Ksenia took a short trip to one of the scenic location on Southern Crimea called The Baydar Gate. I have never been there before and I was amazed by the landscapes that opened up in front of me.

Before we did get there though we decided to make a short stop and grab some food. One of the many popular spots in the area is a village cafe called Orlee Орли in Russian. It mainly features Crimea-Tatar cuisine.
Both of us got some chebureki and solyanka soup.

The food was pretty good and quite inexpensive that was nice haha. I do not usually eat chebureki or the solyanka soup, maybe once in a year or two, but since I am in Crimea I thought I might as well go ahead and taste some, since those are not the dishes you can get in the United States, and I don't really cook a lot of soups.

The Baydar Gate

When we got there, we decided to check out some souvenir kiosks, some of them were featuring sheep skins that we were looking at. Out of nowhere a sales lady ran towards us from across the street and tried to show us more merch, and then for some reason all of the other sales ladies started yelling at her, I guess they felt like she was trying to steal customers even though we were not going to buy anything. It was freaky in a way, so we just left haha.

Here is a panorama of the Black Sea, Foros Church in the middle and the village of Foros

Foros Church

The Church of Christ's Resurrection is a popular tourist attraction on the outskirts of Yalta in the Crimea, known primarily for its scenic location, overlooking the Black Sea littoral from a 400-metre cliff near Baidarsky Pass.
The church overlooking the village of Foros was commissioned by a local landowner to commemorate Alexander III's survival in the Borki train disaster (1888). The landowner's name was Alexander Kuznetsov; he was a tea trader from Moscow.
The church was consecrated on 4 October 1892 in the name of the Resurrection of Christ in a ceremony attended by Konstantin Pobedonostsev. The last Tsar, Nicholas II of Russia, and his wife prayed at the church on the day of the 10th anniversary of the Borki incident.

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Here is me and Ksenia, selfie time :)

Another gorgeous view of the Foros Village

The road back to Sevastopol is quite scenic

I will see you again!