What to bring from the Crimea?
Rest in another city and country is always extremely useful and interesting. Rest in Crimea will give unforgettable moments. This is a place where you can spend hours enjoying the beauty of the mountains and the blue of the sea, breathing in the cleanest air and feeling the special peace. Souvenirs from the Crimea will allow longer to extend the memories of this wonderful land. Various magnets, spices, tasty wine and Crimean sweets will certainly be pleasant gifts from this sunny region. But this choice is not limited.
Garments and jewelery
The Crimean Peninsula is rich in deposits of mud and healing salt, as well as all kinds of semi-precious stones. Products from these gems can always be found in large and small stores, in souvenir shops. Here everyone will find for themselves a quartz, jasper or agate jewelry. Brilliant beads, bracelets and earrings made of semi-precious stones will be a good gift.
Gift shops have a large selection. onyx productswhich look very expensive and elegant. Products made of onyx can be real charms. To increase the positive influence of a stone on its owner, his horoscope must be taken into account.
In order not to purchase a fake, you need to see whether the sun's rays shine through the stone.
The constant symbol of sea holidays are products from cockleshells. Local craftsmen make of them excellent crafts, affecting their variety of shapes and colors.
In the Crimea, a very favorable climate for keeping and raising sheep and goats, therefore, tourists are offered a large selection of wool products. Here you can always find a warm and soft blanket of wool.
Are in great demand sheep wool slippers or felt boots. Such a gift will please adults and bring joy to kids. Now their legs will always be warmed and will not freeze even in the most severe frosts.
Also in the Crimea can be purchased all sorts of t-shirts and vests with different inscriptions. In the tents on the embankments and souvenir shops a large selection of swimsuits, tunics, pareos, sunglasses, hats, caps. There is always a chance to find something original.
Selection of cosmetics
An excellent gift from the Crimea will be eco-cosmetics, which can be bought at pharmacies or eco-shops. Those interested can purchase essential oils. Especially popular is the oil from the Crimean rose, it is used as a supplement to creams or ointments, used as an aroma.
Natural cosmetics from Crimea is popular far beyond the region.. Vacationers can purchase products from local manufacturers or give preference to such proven manufacturers as “Crimean Rose”, “Crimean Collection”, “Saksky Mud”, “House of Nature”, etc.
Here you can always find natural balms and ointments that will help get rid of back and joint pains, relieve muscle spasm. Also in large quantities ointment from varicose veins, painkillers and tonic preparations. In their composition only natural ingredients. All ointments and balms are made on the basis of therapeutic mud, natural fat, essential oils and herbs.
In the Crimea, there are large deposits of blue clay, which are located in Koktebel, Sudak and Karadag. Apply clay not only in cosmetology. It can be applied to the face, used for anti-cellulite wraps. Treats blue clay sore joints, use compresses based on it for sprains. Use Refined Clay Drink for getting rid of toxins, slags and cleansing the body.
In many cities, therapeutic mud is sold, which is used to treat skin diseases. Use it for anti-cellulite wraps. Apply as a rejuvenating agent.
Sea mud or clay, purchased as a gift, will help to rejuvenate the body, improve skin condition. When choosing a particular product, it is worth asking more about the effect of the drug and find out the presence of contraindications. Detailed instructions attached to a jar of mud or clay, will be an important addition to the presentation.
Sellers offer a variety of mud that have a therapeutic and cosmetic effect on the skin. Healing Crimean mud or products based on it will be an excellent gift. Vacationers can purchase a 200-gram jar of clay or opt for a mud mask of Saki Lake.
Especially popular pink salt. On the western coast of the Crimea there are many therapeutic lakes and estuaries containing salt and mud. Pink salt is used to reduce weight, it is used for edema. It is especially useful for the treatment of colds. On its basis, rinsing is prepared, inhalations are made.
As a small gift you can choose shampoo, scrub or cream, as well as natural soap. Crimean soap is cooked without the addition of harmful ingredients. In its manufacture do not use chemicals and dyes. As part of natural soap may be small pieces of fruit, rose petals, coffee grounds, medicinal mud and essential oils.
One of the popular lines in the Crimean cosmetics is floral. Buyers presented a large selection of natural distillates with rose, lavender, mint or cloves.
Unusual souvenirs
From the Crimea, you can bring quite unusual souvenirs. Vacationers can purchase products of local craftsmen. Particularly appreciated handmade goods from wood, stone or metal.
In each city there are many interesting places to visit.
- From Sudak It is worth bringing as a gift a skillfully decorated original whistle. A large selection of such products can be found near the Genoese fortress.
- Vacationers in Simferopol will be able to choose as a gift products made by local craftsmen. On the market or on small trays on the embankment they sell all kinds of decorations, carved caskets, badges, paintings and other handmade items.
- From Alushta You can bring original and inexpensive products cut from juniper. The resort is famous for juniper groves. These items will be folded over many years, reminding of a pleasant rest with an unforgettable scent.
- In Yalta It is worth visiting the “Glade of Fairy Tales”, where you can buy as a gift products of local craftsmen made of metal, wood or stone.
- From Alupka recommend to bring pictures with the image of Ai-Petri. They are in special demand here. Also here you can buy prints depicting the Vorontsov Palace.
- From the royal village of Livadia they bring painted eggs, extraordinarily beautiful paintings, postcards and photo albums.
- Those who rest in Bakhchisarai, in memory of this place, you can buy crafts from wood, which are sold at every step.
Gardeners' friends can bring a “live” souvenir in the form of plants as a gift. It is worth going in the Nikitsky Botanical Garden. There is a large selection of seedlings and seeds of cedar, cypress, palm trees.
From the Crimea it will be useful to capture bags and pads that are filled with fragrant herbs. Herbal bags help you fall asleep quickly, calm your nerves or improve performance, envelop you with a pleasant scent.
An excellent gift will be a salt lamp. This may be a small and not very expensive copy or a souvenir, complete with carved ornaments, which will cost an order of magnitude more expensive.
What food can I bring as a gift?
Resort cities are famous for their sweets.Undoubtedly, it is worth taking as a gift Turkish Delight, which is sold here everywhere. Buyers offer a large selection of this sweet with nuts, seeds, rose petals, candied fruits, coconut flakes. As part of the Crimean sweets there is no sugar, so they are suitable for young children and people with various diseases.
Vacationers are offered all kinds of sweets in the form halvah, nougat or sherbet. Also everywhere here you can see jars of honey and nuts. Such a gift will be not only tasty, but also very useful. In addition, as a tasty gift worth bringing churchkhela
A good gift will be A jar of fragrant jam brewed from rose or walnut, peach, white cherry or blackberry. Buyers are offered a lot of dried fruits. Dried dogwood, cherry plum, figs or strawberries can be found here in any market. Vacationers also offer sets of dried eggplant, pepper and pumpkin.
Crimean honey is especially appreciated, which is collected at local apiaries. The most delicious is honey from herbs, collected during the flowering of honey plants.
In the Crimean markets you can always buy seasonings and spices. Here and fragrant mixture for pilaf, there are all sorts of spices for fish, meat, for salads. Dry adzhika, seasoning for first courses and lagman are very popular.
Mistresses should bring from the Crimea Yalta bow, which has a characteristic taste without bitterness. It is usually added to salads. Onions give the dishes a special taste, besides, it has healing properties. The price for this product is higher than for a regular bow, but it's worth it. Tourists often carry whole bundles of Yalta onions.
Beverage options
Herbal tea from the mountainous Crimea is perfect as a pleasant and useful gift. Herbal Fees here they sell almost everywhere. A large selection of this gastronomic souvenir can be found in the tea shops of the Crimea Teas.
Alcohol lovers should pay attention to winery products. Wine manufacturers in the Crimea are offered by such manufacturers as Koktebel, Massandra, Zolotaya Balka and others. Winery products are very popular. At international exhibitions, wines of Crimea receive prestigious awards.
Vacationers better not to buy wine from random sellers. For this drink it is better to go to branded stores.
- Lovers of fortified wines can bring port wine as a gift. Massandra wines are especially appreciated.
- Dessert wines are not in vain considered the best. For example, “White Muscat of Red Stone” is called the king of muscat wines. This wine twice won the Grand Prix Cup at the winemaking competition.
- Vintage and dessert wines are produced near Sudak in the Sunny Valley. Black Colonel and Black Doctor brands became the pride of winemakers.
- In the XIX century in the New World began the production of champagne on the French technology. In order to evaluate the taste and aroma of this drink, it is better to opt for it.
In addition to these major producers make good wine and many small wineries. Even home winemakers sometimes offer decent wine, although they often sell medium quality drinks.
Selection rules
Those who rest in the Crimea in the spring should pay attention to various souvenirs in small shops. Tourists can buy paintings or photographs of local landscapes or sights as a souvenir.
In the summer, at the very peak of the season, the shops and shops are just overwhelmed with souvenirs and handicrafts. Buyers offer a large selection of products from seashells, essential oils, eco-cosmetics, herbal teas.
In autumn, you can bring a good book about the history of the peninsula from here. For example, the book "Legends of the Crimea" in a colorful design will be a good gift.
A good gift to the gardener will be planting material from the Nikitsky Botanical Garden.
In winter, they usually choose as a present. wine. Moreover, there is a series of New Year and Christmas holidays ahead of everyone.
Choosing a souvenir for memory, you need to pay attention to the time of manufacture of the goods, its quality. It is better not to purchase goods in places not provided for this, but to give preference to supermarkets and shops.
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