Grigory Usyskin. Essays on the history of Russian tourism

17.10.2021

Hello everyone! Articles about tourism are now in great demand, and therefore a novice author simply needs to know: where to look for material for a future masterpiece, how to write articles on this topic and sell them, and most importantly, how to turn a customer into a regular customer. I will tell you about everything in stages, and you "shake your head" and apply in practice. So let's go!

Who needs articles on tourism anyway?

First, let's talk a little about who will buy your articles.

Travel firms, real estate agencies, hotel and hotel websites;
Websites that profit from affiliate programs or advertising.

Why do you need to know about this? First, such portals pay handsomely for unique and interesting content. Second, talented authors can look forward to long-term collaboration. Therefore, well-written articles are a guarantee of constant receipt of funds for bread and butter and a glass of wine.

Looking for ideas and inspiration

It is a pleasure to write articles about tourism for free sale (and for customers). But, if a customer can say: “I need an article about the most popular boarding houses in Crimea with such and such keywords” - it immediately becomes clear what to write about and what to insert.

As for free sales, here your flight of imagination is not limited, and you can write an article about anything by selecting the appropriate key queries. However, due to the wide choice of topics, some authors make an unforgivable mistake - they write about a country or city in general terms. The result is not an article, but a synopsis of geography.

Therefore, I suggest that you narrow the topics and make small flowcharts (just create in Worde, but better on paper, so that it is in front of your eyes).

Then you can think over the body of the article and write headings, for example:

Top 5 museums in Rouen (fine arts / ceramics / Pierre Corneli / Gustave Flaubert, etc.) or write about each separately;
How can the whole family have fun in Paris? (Asterix park / Disneyland / Aquabul water park). You can write a whole series of articles on each topic, for example - Excursions in Paris with children: a trip to Disneyland.
How to choose an inexpensive hotel in Bordeaux?
What to bring from Strasbourg?

I think that after studying the flowchart and reading the little list in your minds, ideas and thoughts rush at a mind-boggling speed. Write them down, look at the template written above and create content about any country or city.

Where is the storehouse of information?

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If you are an avid traveler, then there should be no problems with collecting materials for future articles. As well as unique photographs that give the content a finished look. Especially when you keep notes in a notebook / diary / notebook or on a voice recorder (and do not keep a lot of information in your head) and photograph interesting places and picturesque landscapes.

However, not everyone can afford long-distance travel for a number of reasons, so I suggest that you familiarize yourself with other ways of obtaining information.

Foreign sites. If you know "foreign" language, then feel free to translate and rewrite articles.
Travel magazines / brochures / guides. Use Around the World, Traveler, Tourism, Voyage, Travel Jay, National Geographic, Turmir, Geo. Ask your friends to bring as gifts not souvenirs, but brochures from hotels / restaurants / airports, etc.
Subject forums. There is a dime a dozen information, and adventure lovers willingly share with it. You can read entire travel notes with tips, fun facts, or unforeseen events. However, it is advisable to double-check everything you read for the presence of false facts.
TV. Yes, zomboyaschik can offer a lot of interesting materials for articles about tourism. For example, the programs "The Journey of a Naturalist", "Unlucky Notes", "Heads and Tails", "The World Inside Out". And also entire channels dedicated to travel: "Discovery", "National Geographic Channel", "My Planet", "Travel + Adventure", "Travel Channel".

Watch broadcasts, make notes in a notebook / notebook, write notes and rewrite. There is no need to mindlessly rewrite the information received and put it on sale - someone could have done it before you. As a result, you will have to rewrite the article, increasing its uniqueness, and this is long and tedious.

Now about the construction of the article

For each article, you need to draw up a plan and texts about tourism are no exception. Let's take a look at how to make a plan for an informative article. For example, you want to write about a trip to the island of Santorini.

Where is he / what is the place?
Interesting facts / why is it popular / what is known?
Who will be interested in the trip / what kind of vacation?
What should you see?

You can use the outline as a hint or template to describe other interesting places.

Now look at the outline for a highly focused article. For example, you decided to dedicate an article to the Clos-Luce castle.

A short history (write so that the reader does not fall asleep - lively, but without fanaticism);
What's interesting / noteworthy?
What to focus on?
Curious information;
How to get there?
What is the ticket price?

At the end of the articles, you can give your readers practical advice or write about another interesting fact.

A little useful

For free sales, it's better to do a series of articles. Firstly, it is much easier to write this way, because in search of the necessary material for one article, you will shovel a lot of other information on the topic. For example, you wanted to write about hotels in Germany, but besides that, you will find a lot of interesting things about sights, cuisine, souvenirs, etc. So use the information to the fullest!

Secondly, customers prefer to purchase a "package" of articles at once. If, after reading one article, the customer likes the style of writing, content and design, then the likelihood of buying out the rest of the content will increase significantly.

In order for the customer to pay attention to your texts in the article store, write in the annotation for whom the content is intended (for a travel site, for example), what keywords you used (high-, medium-, low-frequency) and briefly describe what the article is about whether it has tips, lists, subheadings, and pictures.

Write articles as if for yourself. Imagine what you would like to get from the content you write. Don't forget about tips and tricks:

what dishes to try?
where to go and how?
where to spend the night?
what souvenirs to bring?

Listen to the customer (I have about him) and take into account his opinion. The main thing for him is to break into the top, increase traffic and turn readers into clients of the travel agency. Therefore, if you write an article about how in Egypt a shark bit off a man's leg or about the terrible service of the hotel and about the maid stealing in it, they will not pat you on the head, and moreover, the order will not be paid. Although it is very useful for your own blog to write provocative articles - they spur readers' interest.

Well, it seems everything. Now you are savvy and ready to write the first (and maybe the tenth) article on tourism. Write in the comments about your successes.

Before we start talking about the history of tourism, let's try to define the subject of our conversation. Today science has several dozen definitions of tourism. Each of them is correct in its own way, although it emphasizes different or, more precisely, different sides, aspects, facets of one concept.

Without going into the intricacies of scholarly disputes, we can definitely say that from ancient times to the present day, the main idea here is the idea of the versatility, the many-sidedness of the phenomenon, its social essence. Considering this issue historically, we will try to name some of these facets. The triad formula that has existed in our country for many years is widely known: tourism is recreation, cognition, and sports.

Tourism is not just a hobby or a fashion. This is a vital need for most normal people. At different times and eras, about the same thing attracted them to tourism: the romance of travel, which means escape from the ordinary, and even the opportunity for informal communication. Each participant in such travels begins to feel like a discoverer and pathfinder. Thanks to all the new changes, tourism makes life more interesting, fills it with unexpected discoveries in nature and in society. Such travels help the formation and enrichment of a person spiritually and physically.

The world is changing before our eyes. And different people talk about tourism differently. Time always dictates the limits of what is possible. Could we even two decades ago believe that tourist travel is primarily a trip to the Canary Islands and the Bahamas, to London or Rome? Today it is very simple: open almost any newspaper and select a point on the map. There would be enough funds, or rather, money. And then such a tourist learns the world from the window of a bus or carriage, from a ship or an airliner.

A legitimate question arises: how many citizens of our country will be able to find the necessary amount of funds for such a trip in today's time, which is quite difficult for most honest workers? One can say definitely, without even looking at the statistics - very little! Only a few percent of the wealthy and well-off. Most have very different problems.

The whole world has traveled and continues to travel along the routes proven by travel agencies, having in your pocket a voucher with an indication of hotels and well-known excursion sites. For many countries, tourism is the main budget item.

Let's consider another paradox of our modern life. Who has recently been considered or called a tourist? A man with a backpack! A backpack or a knapsack was an integral part of a traveler. Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin wrote about this back in the 18th century in his book Letters of a Russian Traveler: "A man in a traveling dress, with a staff in his hand, with a bundle on his shoulders is not obliged to speak with the careful intelligibility of some courtier surrounded by the same courtiers." ...

Two decades ago, in a tram, such a "backpacker" was pointed with a finger and almost never made a mistake. People with backpacks are used to measuring their way with steps or ropes, they are used to holding an oar, ice ax, bicycle handlebars, ski poles. Today the backpack has become the property of young people who have nothing to do with tourism. Literally everyone wears it. Especially teenage girls. Behind most of them are miniature backpacks of various shapes and cuts. This fashion came to us from abroad. What does it mean? A symbol of tourism, but without tourism?

More recently, we were also proud of other tourism - amateur. These are the so-called organizations of independent travel along a route thought out by a leader or a group with homemade equipment and almost self-catering. This phenomenon was inherent in almost only one country in the world. But the country occupied a sixth of the land, and the phenomenon had to be reckoned with. I must say that the state and trade unions supported amateur tourism. And here, too, has its own story.

Tourism was, is and will be a deeply social phenomenon. Recall that in the dictionary of foreign words edited by Professor I.A. Baudouin-de-Courtenay, published in 1911, on the concept of "social policy" is said to be "legislative measures to improve the economic, political and moral situation of workers." This was said almost 90 years ago.

Why do people travel at all? Many Eastern philosophers in their writings wrote the word "path" with a capital letter, understanding it as a person's choice of the path to truth, to goodness, to perfection. And a person goes along this path not alone, but with friends, good and reliable companions. Joint passage of the route, close life in a team, mutual assistance in difficult conditions are becoming the generally accepted norm of behavior.

Who needs this kind of tourism? Undoubtedly - to every Russian and society as a whole. Such journeys form and enrich a person spiritually and physically. It gets better thanks to the inclusion of elements of practical hiking activities, communication with nature. We can agree with those who called tourism a school of education, character hardening, the formation of patriotic views and beliefs. Tourism until recently acted as one of the methods of improving physical and spiritual qualities, the general rise of human culture. Such a school of upbringing is especially needed, one might say, necessary first of all for adolescents, youth, schoolchildren.

Let's try to highlight the seven most important facets of tourism: health, sports, aesthetic, cognitive, social and communicative, emotional and psychological and, finally, creative.

Tourism is a great way to maintain and restore health, stay active and work. Physical activity is, according to the definition of academician I.P. Pavlova, "the muscular joy of being", she helps, prepares for the meeting with life's difficulties. That is why tourism from a recommendatory wish in the fight against physical inactivity grows into a necessity.

All of the above is not our discovery. All mass media wrote and spoke about it. Until recently, the authors of popular books predicted by the end of the century an "explosion" in our country of those wishing to travel.

“100 million people will travel, twice as many as now,” union tourism leaders predicted. Such predictions were not unfounded. When polling various social groups, 41 percent of the respondents for their rest in the first place put amateur tourism, and 26 percent preferred trips to camp sites. Even pensioners, when polled in Literaturnaya Gazeta, put amateur tourism in second place, right after the sanatoriums.

Alas, the forecast did not come true. With the change in the principles of state policy in the field of recreation and leisure for the broad working masses (trade union vouchers, tourist centers), mass amateur, as well as sports tourism today fell to the bottom. True, extreme tourism began to develop. Some groups had sponsors or substantial funds obtained in other ways. They could make hikes of the highest difficulty along the passes of the Karakorum, in the Himalayas or through the deserts of Egypt. But there are literally a handful of such "pro" tourists, well, maybe dozens.

At the state level, amateur tourism has practically been forgotten, and the problems of social tourism are still being discussed in the Duma. And in the professional environment, there is an opinion that amateur tourism does not require regulation. They simply forgot about him. Tourist clubs began to close or move to a commercial mode of activity. The “tourism” item has simply disappeared from the subsidized part of the state budget, it is dissolved in many other parts, which means that it is not indicated anywhere. Everyone's attention turned to commercial tourism, bypassing the true mass nationwide tourism.

At the same time, the incomes of the population fell sharply. Sports trips are almost gone. Many interesting and traditional travel areas ended up outside of Russia - in the Caucasus or Central Asia. But the vastness of Russia is immense. There are many more beautiful and unexplored places suitable for tourism. You can also make short hikes, weekend hikes. They are the most popular and attractive. Unfortunately, such types of tourism are becoming less and less, because tickets for suburban trains are constantly getting more expensive.

Future workers, managers and ordinary citizens of Russia still have to answer many difficult questions in order to solve the problems of amateur, social tourism. Common sense must win so that everyone understands that tourism is an integral part of the life of any person. Already today we need to look for and find those opportunities that will help revive, and as early as possible. Tourism with a capital letter, in all its diversity.

Travel stories

The tourist route began. The leader had just passed the "four", had excellent acclimatization and grandiose plans for our mountain two in the Western Caucasus. He immediately took a crazy pace and completely exhausted the newcomers, who made up a third of our group. Of course, they trained all year in the mountain tourism section, but Leninskie Gory in Moscow is still difficult to compare with the Caucasus.

Having quickly passed the first pass (Azau, 1A), the leader decided that it was time to get down to more serious business. We climbed into the headwaters of the little-visited river Mursala and found out that we would not go the declared 1B, but the first ascent of the saddle in the other edge of the circus, which the leader rated as 1B with a “star”. The presence of the "star" meant that in some years this pass could be estimated at 2A, and, in my opinion, this year went to us.

The saddle of the pass was cut by a huge bergschrund. The leader, with the lower belay, crossed it over a small snow bridge and, climbing to the rock, drove a hook into it, hung a carbine and passed a rope through it. Then, gaining a little altitude, he climbed the entire rope along the slope above the bergschrund and hammered the first ice ax into the snow.

After that, he accepted the second participant, who brought a rope and organized further insurance for the leader. After hanging another rope, now steeply upward, the leader again organized a belay point on an ice ax driven into the snow. The third rope brought him almost to the saddle, leaving on which he folded the tour, wrote a note and sat down to eat chocolate.

Together with him, the second participant who insured him, who had the experience of the "four", found himself on the pass, so there was no one to command below, and the group independently pulled up the railing. Moreover, after passing the first bundle, the lower rope was not fixed on the rocky hook, but simply hung down from the first ice ax driven into the snow.

Deciding that the older comrades knew better, the people knitted grasping knots and cheerfully walked up, although it was clear that in the event of a breakdown, the likelihood of which was high enough, the man flew like a pendulum towards the bergschrund, and his further fate was determined by the distance remaining to the hammered into ice ax snow.

This scenario did not look implausible: there were already several breakdowns when the ligaments were ascending to the crack, which, given the steepness of the slope and the lack of cats and mountain experience in some of the participants, was not at all surprising.

Then an unexpected order came from above that the ice axes should be removed (!) In backpacks so that they would not interfere with the movement along the railing. Many did so. The slope was steep, the railings looked unreliable, and the abyss of the bergschrund located below did not add optimism to beginners, who had this second pass in their lives.

In general, when there were only two “experienced” (we have already passed one) participants downstairs, Galina, one of the novice girls, lost her balance and fell out. Another girl, Irina, who at that moment was on the same (!) Railing, looked longingly as Galya flew to the bergschrund, but could not do anything. Her ice ax was safely hidden in her backpack.

No one stood on the first ice ax driven into the snow, and the ice ax, unable to withstand the jerk, jumped out of the snow, increasing the girl's fall distance. Galina flew into the crack, but, fortunately, hung in it, lingering on a rope tied to the upper ice ax. At the same time, she pulled off Irina, who was helplessly awaiting her fate, who rolled like a pendulum down the slope and disappeared into the abyss.

All this happened in complete silence and took a few seconds. I crawled to the edge of the crack and shouted down. Nobody responded. He shouted again - from the depths came the barely audible cry of Irina. Thank God! Alive! But what to do, the leader is already at the pass, there are no ropes, and no experience.

I tie the two found cords, fasten them to the harness and crawl along the cornice hanging over the crack. My partner insures me through an ice ax, but as luck would have it, there is not enough turnip. I unfasten and crawl the last meter without any insurance. Galina hangs at the very edge, her eyes are open, but she is shocked and does not respond to her voice.

Leaning over the edge of the cornice, I reach the loop on her backpack and pull the backpack out into the snow with the girl. After that, portraying a nurse pulling a wounded soldier from the field, dragging her down. Now it's Irina's turn. I drag her just by pulling the rope. It seems like you need to knit some knots, but everything immediately flew out of my head.

Irina is very lucky. Having flown to the bergschrund for the entire rope, she fell on a snow plug, but did not break anything. It was damp and dark in the crack. The smooth sheer walls of the crack closed somewhere above. The snow plug underfoot looked unreliable and could have collapsed.

The unstretched rope went up somewhere, but how to get out along it was not clear. Then the rope pulled tight, and Irina felt herself rising towards the light. When, beyond the edge of the crack, she saw my unshaven face, Cupid's arrow pierced her heart, and she realized that she would marry me. I had no idea about it then, but it turned out that she was right.

Tourist story

March, Volok station. Here we have arrived. Then we will, apparently, drag around for 11-12 days. "The Polar Urals is a fairy tale," said Maxim Korobov, one of the participants in the hike: The fairy tale began with a leisurely approach to the Sobsky Pass. The next day we passed this pass and Lake Makar-Ruz.

After a short thought, they turned back to the geologists' base. And they did not regret it. The whole next day I had to sit in the gully. As a poet would say: "A snowstorm howls - a tourist falls asleep." The bad weather ended as suddenly as it began. And again on the road! Geologists are hospitable people, but not talkative.

But local dogs missed communication. With whom to "talk" if not with strangers? And so we, under the escort (or escort) of three dogs, continue our journey. Ahead, a red-haired dog, about 1.5 years old, is silently running. And two black-and-white puppies in size, not inferior to him, with a cheerful barking strive to claw on the heel on the go.

We passed the Geologov pass and stopped for lunch. And then the question arose: to feed the dogs or not? After the discussion, we decided to do what the youngest participant suggested: "If we feed them, we won't live long. The dogs will run after us. And if they are not fed, they will go back."

So they continued to walk for an hour, two, ... a day, two. We passed the Ynga-Yu, Makar-Ruz, Khara-Matolou, making a turn in an arc in the direction of the railway. On the third day it snowed at night. Rise. Where are the dogs? And suddenly three snowdrifts crumble, and three heads appear: we are here!

Although they say that wolves and dogs can get along quite freely without food for a week, it is somehow uncomfortable to eat under the gaze of those who have nothing to eat. We decide that if the dogs do not run home today (from here is the shortest way to the geologists' base), then we put them on rations.

After warming up in the sun, we continue our journey. But something is missing. An hour passes, the second, the third. The leader is here, but there are no puppies. If he ate them, then not two at once! As it turned out after the campaign, the puppies heard a working all-terrain vehicle and, having crossed the ridge, returned to the base.

We give the remaining dog the nickname Red and put it in the group with all the ensuing consequences. For the first two days, he does not let anyone near him. We leave the food in the snow and move away. But soon the relationship is improving, and he even allows himself to scratch his ear.

He feels good: he runs non-category passes like Arka-Matolou, Hara-Matolou, without even noticing them, sometimes twice, running forward and backward. When we try to climb Payer Vostochny, we find ourselves in a cyclone. The wind on the ridge either knocks into the snow, or lifts it into the air, lifting it off the ground.

We go downstairs. Not reaching a hundred meters to the top, we wait out the bad weather in the igloo. We also allow the redhead to spend the night in a shelter for the first time, and not on the "street". And here his insidious nature manifests itself: you gape a little, and he is already under the sleeping bag. Soon Red became even redder and, of course, more experienced. The path to the peak of Payer Central passed several times. I was all worried about us.

I ran from the first participant to the last, counted whether everything was in place, and ran back. Only after descending from the top did he calm down that no one was missing. How long, whether shortly, the polar fairy tale takes its toll, but it also ends. Our campaign was also coming to an end. We leave through the Sadlo pass, then along the Kech-Pel Srednyaya river to the Yeletskaya station.

Well, what a dog, where will life take you next? I managed to become a tourist in one trip and from the very first attempt to climb Payer. What's next? And then Maxim Korobov, who used to have a dog, decides to take Ryzhy for training. So he acquired a new owner. And the old one happened to be in the same carriage: he was returning home, having completed his watch.

And now, dog, you have a choice again. The old master called: "Wolf!" And the new one: "Redhead!" And you ran from one to another. But, apparently, tourist friendship is not only slices of chocolate on the pass, but also something imperceptibly huge and mesmerizing, like the underwater part of an iceberg, which is not visible, but larger, more significant than the visible part.

Wagging its tail guiltily, the dog stopped near Maxim. The old owner waved his hand and sharply threw: "Take it." He turned and walked into his compartment. We return home with three transfers on the railway, and to the question: "Is your dog?" - we answer: "Our" - "Then put a muzzle on your dog."

When buying tickets, no one asked for a dog's passport. At home, in Ufa, Red was vaccinated and a passport was given, even with the right to travel beyond the "hillock". And the dog's marching life began. Climbed to the top of the Bell Tower, Manaraga, People. I met with a seal on the ice of Lake Baikal. He overcame passes 2A and 2B k.t. in the Kodar ridge. He descended the steep walls, sitting in a backpack behind the owner's back.

And there were many other tourist adventures. Recognition also came: in the 2002 Russian championship, the hike with Ryzhim along Kodar (in class 5-6 class) took 5th place. Now you just have to start packing your backpack, as the dog already understands: soon on the road. And when Red appears at the carriage, the conductors ask: "Do you have a muzzle, does ... the tourist have any vaccinations?" - "There is!" - "Well, then get into the car."

Hiking in the mountains - perfect for the first time - is impossible to forget. An ironic story is the truest definition of my story. On one Wednesday, A.I.Teryokhin comes up to me. I do not remember all the titles - Instructor, Party organizer, Trade union organizer, Major "Dynamo" and my teacher. He says: "Tolyan, do you want to go to a seminar in the North Caucasus, and then go camping, do we have two invitations?" I answered briefly: "Yes!" The second was Vera Karaulova.

Hiking in the mountains. For the first time

The road was remembered for its extreme nature - there are rocks on the left, an abyss on the right, a teahouse in the middle of the road, in which the driver drank "Khvanchkara", and as if nothing had happened, we drove on. We arrived at the seminar. Application form. Who, where, when? Vera is asked: "Where do you work and by whom?" Vera answers: "Bicycle plant ZiF, inspector of quality control department in shop 5". - "What are you checking?" The answer shocked me: ". For a long time I could not stop hysterical laughter. They reacted with understanding to my answer: "Junior Researcher". I couldn't say I was a laboratory assistant.

The trek to the mountains began from Achish-Kho (translated as "Bag of water"). The vegetation is above the head, the water is the sea, both from dew and from rain. The first days everything and everything was dried by the fire, then I realized the uselessness of this - after 3-5 minutes my feet were wet again, so I just began to warm my socks on my belly at night, and in the morning I put the wet ones on the warm ones. One of the drying evenings, someone said that the panties were on fire. It turned out the underpants were his.

Furrier story

But that's not all. His boots made of natural leather have shrunk, it is almost impossible to put on. Because of my toxicity, I started a conversation with the leader, but in such a way that the victim could hear: "My furrier grandfather forced the hide to suckers, stretching it almost twice, soaking it in hot urea." The victim, "accidentally" listening to us, asks: "Where, they say, to get it?" And then, in one voice with the leader (he knew my "ulcer"), we said: "Doesn't it matter whether it is urine or urea, the main thing is to heat it almost to a boil. What to boil in? Yes, right in the boot! " Without thinking twice, the "new furrier" walked away for a while, brought a boot full of "urea" and put it by the fire. I "purely accidentally" hooked on this boot. Do you know the smell of a campfire, poured by men ?! It's good that dinner has already been removed from the fire, otherwise it would have got to me! The heel of the boot had to be cut off ...

On this first mountain hike, I realized that cans need to be either burned or burned at the stake. At one of the bases of planned tourists, we chased for half a day after a pig, who put on an unfinished can of stewed meat on its patch. The piglet got off with light scratches, and we got off with an unscheduled training session.

This extraordinary Ben

The group was attended by an extraordinary man - a French teacher, a planned tourism instructor, about 2 meters tall. For some reason, his name was Ben. When he twisted his leg, we offered to unload him. His answer was: "This will make me unable to walk faster, but it will be harder for you." He played the guitar beautifully. When the planners asked him to sing Vysotsky (fashion), he sang his songs in French. And I was very sorry that we did not understand his phrases and curses in French. Ben, with his knowledge of French, was assigned to Sputnik with a French group with 12 French women. When he rendered intimate services to one, everyone else thought it was a service, and everything is included in the ticket. Ben had to go through the back wall of the tent, ripping it open. He was saved at our seminar.

At one of the last camps on a magnificent lake formed by a sliding glacier, surplus millet was found at the caretaker. They cook a bucket of porridge for everyone. The group eats half a bucket, and the rest must be thrown away. The caretaker Tanya is on her knees begging to finish the product. Ben's cup is a small bowl, and I said I would eat from the bucket until it ran out. When we realized that we couldn't finish it, an idea comes up - we need to spend calories. Ben was the first to jump into the lake. I was the second, but for some reason I was the first on the shore. There is no porridge left in the bucket ...

Then there was a point ball - barbecue, wine, stars. Ben barked at all the dogs in Krasnaya Polyana. The dogs recognized him as the leader of the pack. In the morning I looked for my shoes for a long time. I remember that I went in, wiped them on the rug and put them on the side. It turned out that I entered through the window, and the rug is someone's towel ... This is such a trip to the mountains.

... I only survived at sea for a day ...

Anatoly Savin.

Tourist notes. Use LEVETON FORTE to increase endurance. It is a unique natural preparation that increases endurance and helps the body adapt to high altitude conditions.

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In the corners of the Christmas tree, the Snowmen are located under golden ceilings (really golden!) Among the snow-covered Christmas trees - the atmosphere of the holiday is right in the air.

I have a big family: a husband, three children, a mother-in-law. And once a year you need to heal this cheerful company at sea. We chose Berdyansk because there are sandy beaches, a shallow sea suitable for children and a huge selection of entertainment for both children and adults.

Housing was rented via the Internet, in the very center of the city, right behind the amusement park. To Lunapark, the central beach and various cafes - one minute walk. If you are arriving by car, then this is a great option. You can always go to the beach by car, before the evening entertainment - no need to pull the children far. All the sights known for Berdyansk are within walking distance: a goby-breadwinner, a chair of desires, a fisherman boy, a monument to a toad. A varied selection of cafes where you can have a delicious dinner, dance and even sing karaoke. Lunapark in the center will delight both adults and children. A large selection of extreme attractions for merry people (over 140 cm), and positive trains and carousels for children. If all this is noisy for you or is already tired of passing ... read in full

This spring I was lucky to spend almost a month on vacation in Odessa, the capital of humor and sun. I once parted with my previous job and had not yet got a job on a new one, so I was able to come to South Palmyra for the whole of May. Fortunately, my friends said that I could stay with them for free. Maybe I was lucky, but already in May my vacation was as resort as possible and included, among other things, swimming and sunbathing, the weather did not differ from summer, but there was no influx of tourists yet, because the beaches were as clean as possible. Therefore, I sincerely believe that going to Odessa in May is the best idea, if the weather permits, and if you are not from the cold.

I opened the swimming season here on April 30th, they also swam for the May Day, like the whole month of May after that. The water temperature in early May was about 20 degrees, which was already quite comfortable for me.

As I said, I stayed with friends, but they, as locals, guided me to the future, where is the best place to stay in the city. Give ... read in full

This was our first trip to Montenegro. We chose a time for rest, having studied the information on the websites about the average temperatures of water and air. We decided to fly at the end of August. Tickets were bought in advance, in May, on the website of the low-cost airline Pobeda. For two they paid 28,000 rubles. I booked accommodation via the Internet. After reading the reviews and looking at the prices, I chose Milyutin's apartment.

Sveti - Stefan wanted to visit for a long time, having seen a picture of this wonderful place. The location is convenient, near Budva. The situation in this village is calm; it is not suitable for youth recreation. For couples, parents with small children - this is a great option. There is a playground for kids in Milocer Park. The air there is special, different vegetation, mountains and sea. It's just an amazing symbiosis!

We did not choose the time for rest very well. In subsequent years, the error was taken into account. The best time is from mid-September to October 10th. There are much fewer people. The weather is sunny, the sea is warm.

This was not our first trip to Tenerife, but this year we were surprisingly unlucky with the weather. We were on the island in the first half of July, there were no completely sunny days at all, the sea was not very hospitable, and it often rained. Basically, the picture outside the window was like this:

We stayed at the Sandos San Blas Nature Resort & Golf 5 hotel * near the town of Los Abrigosa. I am not ready to praise or scold the hotel, but the big plus were the well-heated pools, thanks to which our stay did not go without a swim at all. In terms of beach accessibility, this location is only suitable for those who, like us, rent a car. Popular Los Cristianos and Las Americas can be quickly reached by hotel shuttle, but without a car it would still be inconvenient.

Los Abrigos has some very decent fish restaurants that compare favorably with those in the more touristy parts of the island. I liked the assortment of products in the stores: good ... read in full

We have long wanted to visit the UAE. In December 2015, vacation and last minute tour to Sharjah coincided. We flew away from cold Moscow, it was either raining or snowing, it was uncomfortable. The flight took just over 4 hours. Flying up to Dubai, we saw the Persian Gulf and oil platforms across the entire surface of the Gulf. It was impressive. The second thing that struck me on the plane was the skyscrapers. From a height, they looked impressive. At the Dubai airport, met the guide and the bus. It was warm and comfortable. How pleasant it is to travel from winter to summer! I think the best time to travel is early December. Tour prices are falling as everyone prepares for the New Year. Any trip can be carried out at an affordable price. At this time, it is warm, in the sun +27 degrees, the water is also at a comfortable temperature. In the evening, of course, they dressed in windbreakers and jeans so that it would not be cold to walk in the night Sharjah.