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Alushta is a small city in the Crimea, in the Ukraine.

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You can take the 'famous' Crimean over mountain trolley bus but you may be disappointed. Its about as interesting as riding around the LA municipal transit.(Alushta is twinned with Santa Cruz in California USA). The trolley system is extremely slow and basically just a really old bus that is electrically powered. The kicker is that it goes over a windy road. The trolley bus can't go around turns quickly or else it'll fall off of its cables so at every turn its goes REALLY slow. Take a mini bus instead, cheap and regular but very hot in mid summer.

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Alushta has some fairly nice former boat docks that have been converted into beaches. The town is mostly a big carnival though.

Visit the Genonese fortress and Byzantine defensive tower.

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Private accommodation is plentiful and cheap (about 7 USD per night). Just look for the signs people have posted outside their homes (in Cyrillic letters, жильё) and knock.

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