Barefoot on the clouds

Text by Oksana Butovskaya

A few years ago, I learned about one magical and reserved place in the Crimea - Lake Koyash. I immediately wanted to visit it and have a fascinating photo shoot. But I could not choose the time to choose a place, since the lake is located near the city of Kerch, and this is the farthest point from Sevastopol, about three hundred kilometers.

8:00 in the morning, Sevastopol bus station, Sonya and I, not getting enough sleep, with backpacks and tents, are ready for the trip. A 6-hour journey awaited us, since the bus to Kerch went through Simferopol. The heat on the street is +30 degrees, the bus is old without air conditioning, traffic jams and road repairs along the way ... All this made our trip monotonous, but with the most beautiful landscape of the Crimean beauties. We even managed to sleep for a couple of hours.

Kerch. A long-awaited meeting with Dmitry (he had 2 backpacks + a bag with a camera) We had to travel an hour by bus to our destination and overcome 12 km. on foot. We immediately went to find out the bus schedule to the village. The bus was leaving in 15 minutes… HOW???? We still have no food, no water, a strange city, where is the market??? Sofya and Dima left me with a huge pile of things, in case of grabbing onto the bus if it starts moving))) and they themselves ran for groceries. Departure time, but they are all gone ... But the guys managed to jump on the bus on the fly, I started laughing, realizing that we had a shaft of our things, 5 liters of water and a melon that we had to carry, and there was still 12 km to go. walking path to two fragile girls and one guy.))

        An hour flew by, and we are in the village. The thought came to slow down the car and drive to the reserve, but there was not a soul in the village. But despite this, after a few minutes, an old Zhiguli appeared, well, in a sooooo disrepair and, moreover, with an inadequate driver (the man seemed to be from horror films). Toli he is drunk, he is always like that. We persuaded him to take us to the reserve for 300 Russian dollars. Oh Gods!!! It was the worst trip of my life. But it's better to go badly than to go well)) He dropped us off halfway, saying that he would not go any further.

We walked for about 30 minutes, our hands hurt from heaviness, it was almost evening and we were hungry. And so the guys got there and we were there. Leaving things and putting up a tent, we ran to swim in the sea. The water was so clean and clear that I didn't want to get out of it. But still we managed to find a few twigs and a couple of logs. The fire is burning, which means there are fried sausages and hot tea (I will keep silent about wine). Now, finally, we are comfortable, satisfying and warm.

4:30 am, dawn. After sleeping just an hour, we are forced to get up and go to create masterpieces for which, in fact, we came here. The beauty around is indescribable, the sea breeze is blowing, the sun is not yet visible, and the lake is smooth, smooth, like a sheet. Our beautiful photographs are proof of this.

After shooting somewhere for a couple of hours, we began to pack up, since the way back was not easy for us, and we needed to move out earlier.

        The heat, the burning wind, there is little water, not a shadow, my hands ache from heaviness, and the path is still long. We dreamed of a car that would pick us up, but it was only a dream. Each of our halts Dima told about his scars, terrible stories, but interesting, and he had a lot of them and had a lot of halts)))

Fortunately, we reached the stop, and the bus to Kerch leaves only an hour later. We went into the store and just fell to the floor from exhaustion. We spent all this hour in the shop… Finally the tickets to Sevastopol were bought! Hurray, the road home will be long, now you can relax.

What did I personally get from this trip and meeting? Not a big sunstroke, sunburn, a lot of impressions and positive emotions, a pleasant atmosphere and communication with friends, and of course cool photos. Which I am pleased to present to your attention!

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