final pics

I returned to Yalta and hiked up yet another mountain to see Alexander III's dacha, later appropriated by Stalin. It is creepy up there!

But the foliage was at its peak.


I ended my trip in Sevastopol', Crimea's biggest port city and to this day the home of the Russian Black Sea fleet. It was 50 degree and raining, but that didn't deter the babushka below from taking a dip!