Devil stairs - Shaitan-Merdven
Russian-language article (translation in progress).
The way upstairs - especially passing the quarry - is charming. To say more it is just disposed to observations and meditations. Cliff precipices and miraculously attached pines to these slopes. How is it possible to survive?. Here and there in the cliff's clefts we can see tiny groves of evergreen fine-fruit wild strawberry called - "the shameless". They looks like elegant trees but age of some of them is 300 - 400 years. At the begining of the Summer we find them in rags because of changing their rind. By the Autumn the rind is sleek and unwanted red.
You can be charmed by the magnificent view of the coast from the cape Sarich - the extreme south point of the Crimea - nearly to the Cat ("Coshka") Mountain. At the evening hours when every cape, every fold of the earth's crust casts long shadows and the coast itself is hazy - all this sight is especially charming. Parks are distinguished by dark spots of cypresses and cedars. The well-defined ledge of the rock "Ifigenia" now appears and now is lost in the darkness. Underneath the continue din of the new Sevastopol highway is heard and here we enjoy only by the shout of the frighten off jay or rustling of the blackbird in underbrush. Sometimes a squirrel appears for a moment between trees and hides itself under the truck of an old tree.
The way upstairs is steep but any unexpectedness, danger and dizzy climbs. Pushkin was right, remembering it with a smile. There is only one unexpectedness besides very pleasant, - after many sights which had to be already seen in the Crimea you will enjoy once more time to marvel at the beauty of this land.