We tell you what you can bring from Crimea. Prices for popular gifts and souvenirs. Tips and reviews of tourists, where to buy cheaper and how to recognize fakes.
Clothes of the Crimean Tatars
A trip to Crimea is a good opportunity to get acquainted with the traditions and culture of the Crimean Tatars. Do you want to bring gifts for women from Crimea? Lovers of ethnic clothes will be happy to wear oriental shoes with curved toes, beautiful leather belts, velvet hats fez, graceful dresses ather and long shirts keten-kolmek.
Price... Individual items cost 500-1000 rubles, national costumes - from 5000 rubles.
Advice... A large selection of Tatar clothes and embroidered handbags in the market and in souvenir shops, which are located near the Bakhchisarai Palace Museum. Take a look also at the store "Terjiman" in Simferopol - st. Sevastopol, 44.
Juniper crafts
The enchanting pine scent is the perfect reminder of the journey to the south. If you do not know what to bring from Crimea, pay attention to handicraft juniper trinkets. Crimean craftsmen carve out utilitarian things and stylish interior decorations.
Wooden products are not only beautiful but also useful. Volatile compounds from juniper can kill up to 30% of harmful microbes in the air, help relieve headaches and have a soothing effect.
Price... A comb costs 100-160 rubles, a bead and a bracelet - 100 rubles, a teaspoon - 70 rubles, a ladle - 400 rubles, a hot stand - 240 rubles, a hand massager - 250 rubles.
Advice... If you want to avoid counterfeiting, buy wooden gifts from gift shops, not from hand.
Herbal teas and preparations
Russians love tea drinking, so they bring packages and boxes with environmentally friendly Crimean teas from Crimea. The grass for them is collected in the mountains, so it retains the aromas of summer and the warmth of the sun.
Price... A pack of tea 180 g costs 300 rubles, packs with herbal preparations of 100 g - 30 rubles.
Advice... In addition to teas, the shops have fragrant rolls, pillows and bags with mixtures of pleasantly smelling Crimean herbs.
Essential oils
Not decided what to bring from Crimea? Buy nice souvenirs that can be used to make homemade cosmetics, aromatherapy, and saunas. Tourists willingly take home the famous Crimean rose petal oil. The aromatic oils of Crimean cistus, cypress, hyssop, lemon wormwood, mountain lavender, mint and clary sage are popular.
Price... A 5 g bottle costs 120-350 rubles. There are sets of oils in a gift box. Popular with tourists "Flavors of Taurida" and "Swallow's Nest" with views of the sights of the Crimea. They cost 150-200 rubles.
Advice... Opt for dark glass vials. They store odorous goods better.
Wine, cognac and champagne
According to tourists, you can bring delicious wine from Crimea. Winemaking traditions on the peninsula date back to ancient times. Since the end of the 19th century, it has been working on the South Bank Massandra wine factory... Its cellars store wine of different aging years, including bottles that were produced in the year the plant was founded.
In Crimea, they sell drinks with the speaking names "Crimean Wine", "South Coast Wine", "Golitsyn Wines", "Kachinskoye", "Pearl of Inkerman", "Evpatoria", "Muscat Bakhchisarai", "Khan Palace", "Ancient Chersonesos" and "Eski-Kermen". According to experts, the dessert wine "White Muscat of Red Stone", "Golitsyn Champagne", "Livadia" port and "Ai-Petri Legends" cognac have good taste.
Price... Table wine 0.75 l costs 150-200 rubles, vintage 0.75 l - from 1300 rubles, Crimean cognac 0.5 l - 580 rubles, port, 0.75 l - 590 rubles.
Advice... Take wine in glass bottles, as there are fakes.
Crimean sweets
What to bring from Crimea as a gift for a sweet tooth? Visit local markets, shops and buy delicious sweets prepared according to traditional Tatar recipes. The most popular are baklava, chak-chak, nuts in mountain honey, nougat and Turkish delight.
Price... A small box of sweets 110 g costs 80 rubles, Turkish delight 0.5 kg - 300 rubles. Rose petal jam 0.4 kg - 250-300 rubles.
Advice... Take colorful boxes "Crimean sweets", which contain small pieces of different delicacies. A package of 400 g will cost 250 rubles.
What to bring from Crimea: herbs, teas and sweets
Paintings
Many artists live in Crimea, so vacationers are happy to buy paintings with views of the picturesque landscapes of the mountains and the sea, ancient palaces and summer cottages.
Price... Small watercolor sketches cost from 300 rubles, oil works - from 1200 rubles.
Advice... A large selection of paintings on the southern coast of Crimea, especially in Yalta. Many of them depict the Vorontsov Palace and the Swallow's Nest.
What else can you bring from Crimea
- Jewelry made of semi-precious stones: jasper, carnelian, onyx and amethyst - from 200 rubles.
- Embossed dishes from Bakhchisarai: Turks for coffee, trays for pilaf and glasses - from 300 rubles.
- Rapana shells - 50-150 rubles.
- Lavender sachet - 80 rubles.
- Cosmetics with Saki therapeutic mud - 230-640 rubles.
- Natural soap with symbols of Crimean cities - 60-70 rubles.
- Crimean sea salt, 1 kg - 80 rubles.
- Dried apricots, thorns and plums, 1 kg - from 130 rubles.
- Cornel jam, 300 ml - 350 rubles.
- Crimean honey, 1 liter - 400-600 rubles.
- Spice sets, 280 g - 360 rubles.
Travel Tips
- Prices for souvenirs near hotels and on the beaches are greatly overpriced. Don't rush to buy! Walk around and compare offers from different sellers.
- When choosing products from juniper, you will be careful. In Crimea, many poplar fakes are sold, which are treated with sprays with the scent of a plant in the Red Book. The structure of the two trees is similar, so it can be difficult to recognize a deception.
- Tourists like the products of the wine and brandy factory in Bakhchisarai, wineries "Massandra", "Inkerman", "New World" and "Koktebel".
- Not sure which alcohol to buy? Visit tasting rooms, specialty winery stores and sample different types of drinks. There are such establishments in Yalta, Sevastopol, Alupka, Alushta, Gurzuf, Sudak, Almond and Novy Svet.
- Quality essential oils and natural cosmetics are sold in pharmacies and manufacturers' stores. We recommend phytosovkhoz "Rainbow" in the village of Medicinal, plant "Crimean rose" not far from Alushta and Sudak factory "The kingdom of aromas".
- Do you want to bring an unusual souvenir from Crimea? Take a look at Alushta aquarium... They sell corals and shells, stuffed crabs, fish and even small crocodiles.
