{"id":214,"date":"2008-12-07T12:32:57","date_gmt":"2008-12-07T18:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.14erskiers.com\/blog\/?p=214"},"modified":"2008-12-07T12:32:57","modified_gmt":"2008-12-07T18:32:57","slug":"belated-tr-ukraine-yalta-july-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/belated-tr-ukraine-yalta-july-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Belated TR: Ukraine – Yalta (July 2008)"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Odessa, we took a train overnight, arriving in Simferopol. From Simferopol, we took a mini-bus to Yalta. Yalta is a resort town located in an area of Ukraine called the Crimea. We used Yalta as our base to explore the Crimea, visiting places like Sudak, Livadia, Bachchisaray, and Sevastopol.<\/p>\n

A map of the Crimea is provided below, courtesy of Sergey Sorokin<\/a>.
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Yalta is popular for it’s beaches, located on the Black Sea. Many Eastern Europeans travel here, as well as Russians.<\/p>\n

Narrow streets in Yalta.
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Yalta shoreline and “boardwalk”.
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The beaches are quite packed.
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Statue of Lenin – a common site in former Soviet countries.
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My dad and Sonja, refreshing with a cold beverage on a VERY hot day.
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Coming soon- more pictures from the Crimea!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From Odessa, we took a train overnight, arriving in Simferopol. From Simferopol, we took a mini-bus to Yalta. Yalta is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions\/215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}