A lot of romantic legends are covered with two tiny islands that act as cut stones from the Black Sea . This is one of the symbols of Gurzuf - the famous cliffs of Adalara . Like lonely sails from Lermontov's poem, they "turn white in the fog of the sea blue" $ . Indeed, light color is easily explained by the presence of limestone in rock formations, and on some maps they are designated as "White Stones" . Once Adalars were part of the shoreline, but under the influence of time and tectonic movements otr zanes from the land . The remains of the ruptured ridge can be seen only under the water surface . Folk legends have their views on the origin of Adalar . According to the most famous legend, in the dawn of time on the top of Ayu- princes - brothers Peter and George . In attempts to win the love of two impregnable sisters-beauties, they took them on a horse walk to the Sun and nearly were not burnt . But the next day they dared to disturb the peace of the sea lord, and that With the magic of his trident he turned two horses together with riders into trye rock .

the multitude of romantic legends are covered with two tiny islands, jagged boulders protruding from the Black Sea. This is one of the symbols of Gurzuf - the famous cliffs of Adalara.

Another popular comic story tells us that the name of the islands came from the desperate cry of "Ay, dallari! "An American woman with a sharp gust of wind pulled out her handbag with all the cash.

The second legend tells about the restaurant" Venice ", built right on the rocks, but destroyed by the earthquake . At the beginning of the last century, together with the development of the resort Suuk-Su on the near from the islands enterprising restaurateurs opened the "Venice" . It was not a pathos restaurant, but rather a country house, in spite of the elements nesting on a rock .And the attendants, and the food with drinks, and the visitors came here by sea on boats . Unusual environment and the opportunity to gamble won the institution an extraordinary popularity . The landlady even started a project to connect the island with a cable car with rock Dzhenevez-Kaya, but the plans for the development of gambling business prevented the revolution and the Civil War . In memory of the descendants there was only a tunnel cut in the rock for construction, and another fairy tale about a restaurant preserved under stone rubble .

Legends of Legends, but in fact, in the translation from Turkish, the word Adalara sounds quite prosaic - "islands."

For amateur divers there is a legend about precious treasures, resting on the bottom near Adalar after numerous shipwrecks. More experienced in the history of treasure hunters know that the islands served the ships as a dock at the time when they connected to Ayu-Dag by a jumper. So, indeed, from the depths of up to 40 m in their vicinity, various ceramic and metal debris, fragments of ships, are extracted. Especially unlucky divers manage to lift whole amphoras of 12-16 centuries.

Rocks of Adalari

How to get

Anyone can get to Adalar, confident in their abilities tourists do it by swimming, the good of the beach "Gurovsky stones" distance is quite small . However, this option is not entirely safe, as a lot of motorboats and boats are traditionally running around the rocks . Therefore it's better to use the floating craft after swimming to the islands by boat or pedal boat . Catamaran can be rented on almost all beaches Gurzuf, however, the best way to travel to the cliffs from Artekovo is . Walking on a sea ship around the rocks with a landing on one of them takes about two hours .

It is better to take a boat trip on a calm day, when it is more convenient for the Adalars to moor. In this weather, a whole flock of catamarans, boats and yachts gather around the twin rocks.