Where to go and what to see from Yevpatoria by car

In the immediate vicinity of Evpatoria you can visit many interesting places and attractions that diversify your stay at this resort at any time of the year. So, during the day you can go to one of the most beautiful places of the peninsula – a landscape park on the tarkhankut Peninsula; lovers of historical places will be interested to visit the settlement "Chaika" in the village of Zaozernoye and the museum-settlement "Kara Tobe" in the direction of Sak; a whole complex of the Archaeological Museum and settlement is in the village Chernomorskoe; be sure to visit the Pink Lake "Sasyk Serumash" and much more, which is detailed below.

It is best to get acquainted with the surrounding sights on a personal or rented car. To plan the route, we advise you to use the Navigator, where you can upload points of interest from our interactive map of Yevpatoria, and go on a one-day independent trip.

If there is no individual transport, then, as a last resort, you can use local suburban buses that depart from the bus station in the city center at 124 Internatsionalnaya Street (Yevpatoria bus station on the map). But to use them, we advise you to first read our guides on transport in Yevpatoria and how to get to Yevpatoria.

And now we present to your attention the top interesting places where you can go from Yevpatoria in one day, with a detailed indication of how to get there yourself, opening hours and entrance fee. For the convenience of planning the race, we sorted our list in order of distance from the center of Yevpatoria:

Settlement "Chaika" in Zaozernoye

It is the ruins of a Greco-Scythian settlement founded around the middle of the 4th century BC by Chersonesos. In the middle of the 2nd century. captured by the Scythians and existed until the middle of the first century AD. It was discovered in 1959, and since then there have been archaeological excavations. Many of the artifacts found here are on display at Local History Museum of Yevpatoria.

Today, the settlement is a complex of ruins, which for most tourists are perceived simply as a pile of geometrically arranged stones. Indeed, for the most part there is nothing to see here: there are no buildings and artifacts here, there are only outlines of buildings made of stones among bushes and trees. Unfortunately, the ruins are not protected in any way in the period between excavations, and are gradually destroyed by tourists and locals. Read more about the settlement "Seagull" here.

Practical Information

🕐 Working hours: around the clock.

💵 Entrance fee / tickets price: free.

🚶 How to get there: the settlement is located on the outskirts of the village, you can get to it on foot or by bus number 8 (settlement on the map)

Sasyk-Sivash Lake

Sasyk-Sivash Lake is interesting for three reasons. The first is the largest lake in the Crimea and one of the most picturesque, because in good weather in its waters you can see a beautiful pink shade. Another reason is that you can swim in the lake. And finally, the third reason to come to the lake – its healing black mud. And although experts do not recommend taking mud procedures on their own, here you can often see vacationers smeared with soot-black mud. If you also decide to try self-medication, at least read the article "Therapeutic mud of the Crimea". Learn more about Lake Sasyk-Sivash here.

Practical Information

🕐 Working hours: around the clock.

💵 Entrance fee / tickets price: free.

🚶 How to get there: the lake stretches from Evpatoria to Saki for almost 10 kilometers. The most convenient part to visit and sandy beaches are closer to Saki (Sasyk-Sivash on the map). It is best to get there by your own transport, but you can also get there by bus or train from Yevpatoria or Saki, as well as with excursions. For more information, follow the link with the full description.

Banana Republic water park

This water park is located not in Yevpatoria itself but on its outskirts, almost in the village of Pribrezhnoye on the seashore. It is believed that this is the largest and best water park in the Crimea, at least, so its creators believe. The slides here are the highest and there are a lot of them, the territory of the water park is huge, there is a swimming pool, a cafe, etc. The water park will be interesting not only for children, but also for adults. True, there are also disadvantages that you should know about before visiting. The slides here are not only new, there are also old and not the safest. In peak season, queues on the slides reach 30 minutes. Prices in the dining room are high, while you can not carry anything with you, you can not leave the water park either. Well, a lot of complaints about visitors ' reviews are caused by black VIP bracelets that give the right to go to the slides out of turn: those who have them are allowed to pass without a queue only with scandals, and those who do not have them are very dissatisfied with the extraordinary ones.

Practical Information

🌐 Website: bananarepublic.space

🕐 Working hours: from 10:00 to 18:00, only in the summer season.

💵 Entrance fee / tickets price: Adult - 1500 rubles / child (height 90-130 CM) - 1000 rubles / VIP – 3000 and 2000 rubles. Children up to 90 cm. "free. Parking, luggage storage-200 rubles each. Free birthday parties, children up to 90 cm tall, minors with disabilities, disabled people of Group 1.

🚶 How to get there: the water park is located on the beach in the village of Pribrezhnoye between Yevpatoria and Saki (water park on the map). It can be reached from the bus station of Yevpatoria by suburban bus to Saki, which depart every 15-30 minutes. A taxi ride will cost from 400 rubles.

Kara-Tobe Museum

Kara-Tobe is a museum of the ancient Greek-Scythian settlement and a place of active archaeological excavations. Excavations indicate that the first Greek settlement on this site arose in the 4th century BC and was called Eupatorion. In total, the settlement survived six periods: Greek, Scythian, Greco-Pontic, second Scythian, third Scythian and fourth Scythian. All these periods ended in the early 2nd century AD, when the settlement was abandoned for centuries. People returned to him only after the Great Patriotic War, when the military erected an observation post and a communications center on the hill (Kara-Tobe translates as "Black Hill").… However, you can learn in detail the whole history of this place during a visit to the museum. Learn more about the Kara-Tobe Museum and how to visit it here.

Practical Information

🕐 Working hours: daily from 11:00 to 19:00.

💵 Entrance fee / tickets price: 200 rubles for adults / 100 rubles for children (6-12 years). The price includes excursion service.

🚶 How to get there: the museum can be visited either independently by bus or by your own transport, or as part of excursions from Yevpatoria. It is located on the outskirts of Saki next to the P25 road and its tower is perfectly visible, it is impossible to miss (Kara-Tobe on the map). You can get there by bus from Evpatoria bus station (Yevpatoria bus station on the map), or by train from the railway station. For more information, see the link with the full description.

Saka Lake

Among all the lakes in the vicinity of Evpatoria, Sakskoye is the most "therapeutic". Its black healing mud mud is officially considered curative, and even more effective than the mud of the world-famous Dead Sea. On the shores of the city of Saki, to which the lake belongs, there are several mud baths with qualified medical personnel who use this gift of nature for therapeutic and recreational purposes. However, local residents and tourists constantly and with pleasure visit the shores of Lake Saka for independent mud procedures for free. Read more about the Saka lake here.

Practical Information

🕐 Working hours: around the clock.

💵 Entrance fee / tickets price: free.

🚶 How to get there: Saki Lake is located in the city of Saki and about 12 kilometers from Yevpatoria (convenient for self-treatment beach of Lake Saki on the map). It is best to get here from Yevpatoria by your own transport or taxi, but you can also take a bus from the bus station.

Space communications center ADU-1000 and P-400 in Zaozernoye

Built in Soviet times, the space communications center and the Pluto antenna complex provided deep space exploration programs until the late 1970s. The building for those times is unique and advanced, but in 1978 it was replaced by one built not far from here in the village Milk radio telescope RT-70. Currently unused and being gradually dismantled, so hurry up to see what's left. It will be interesting for those who are interested in technology and communication. As of 2023, only the P-400 radio telescope remains, everything else has been dismantled.

Practical Information

🕐 Working hours: around the clock.

💵 Entrance fee / tickets price: free.

🚶 How to get there: located on the outskirts of the village Zaozernoye (ADU-1000 and P-400 on the map). From Evpatoria it can be reached only by own transport.

Therapeutic Lake Konrad in Molochnoye

On the outskirts of the village of Molochnoye, Lake Konrad stretches along the beach. Its bottom muddy mud is considered curative, and during the rest you can use absolutely free of charge or cosmetic or therapeutic procedures. But since there is no infrastructure for mud treatment, you will have to extract mud from the bottom yourself and carry out procedures in the Wild on the shore. However, it is quite simple to do this: you do not have to dig pits or wells, but simply with your hands or an improvised object to go deeper below the silt level by a few centimeters, and get fresh black mud from there. If you go a little further, you can get a blue shade of dirt, which is considered more useful for cosmetic purposes. However, it is worth remembering that self-treatment with mud is not recommended by specialists, and therefore it is worth adhering to at least simple rules, which you can read about here - about therapeutic mud in the Crimea and how to use them

.

Practical Information

🕐 Working hours: around the clock.

💵 Entrance fee / tickets price: free.

🚶 How to get there: the lake is located near the village of Molochnoye and 13 kilometers from Evptaoria (Lake Conrad on the map). You can get here by suburban buses to the bus station, and then from the stop in the center of the village to the lake on foot.

Tram in Molochnoye

Since 1987, a special tourist tram worked in Molochny, which delivered tourists from the Beregovaya boarding house to the beach, and was one of the main "chips" of this small resort. It was one of the shortest tram lines in the world with a length of one and a half kilometers, and to ride and photograph the blue cars, even came here from Yevpatoria and other neighboring resorts. Unfortunately, in 2016, the tram completely stopped working, the remaining wires and tracks are gradually being stolen for scrap. Some sites on the internet still indicate that the tram line is in operation, but this is not the case. You can only walk along the remains of the rails, and no more.

Practical Information

🕐 Working hours: around the clock.

💵 Entrance fee / tickets price: free.

🚶 How to get there: the tram line is located on the outskirts of the village of Molochnoye and goes to the beach (tram in Molochnoye on the map).

Radio telescope RT-70 (P-2500) in Molochnoye

Another miracle of engineering, the RT-70 radio telescope (P-2500), is located just three kilometers from Molochnoye. on the way to the village Vitino. This is a huge radio telescope with a mirror diameter of 70 meters and an area of 2500 square meters, and has unique characteristics: in addition to receiving signals to study space objects, it is also able to send powerful radio signals to then analyze the reflected radiation. In addition to the RT-70, only one other radio telescope in the United States has the same capabilities. Unfortunately, it is also impossible to get on it, you can only watch this hulk from afar.

Practical Information

🕐 Working hours: around the clock.

💵 Entrance fee / tickets price: free.

🚶 How to get there: located away from the center of the village of Vitino, you can only get there by your own transport (Radio telescope RT-70 (P-2500) on the map).

Radio telescope KTNA-200 and antenna ADU-1000 in Vitino

In the village of Vitino is the Center for Deep Space Communications, built in Soviet times for communication with deep space satellites and observation of outer space. This is a fairly large complex of several territorial sites, which includes many telescopes, radio telescopes, antennas. This is a closed area, but at the entrance to the village you can see from the side the huge "plates" of the ktna-200 radio telescope and the ADU-1000 antenna. It is unlikely that these conditional "attractions" will be interesting to a wide range of tourists, but if you are interested in technology, you can admire these "engineering works of art" from the side through the fence. It is impossible to get close to them, excursions to the object are not made.

Practical Information

🕐 Working hours: around the clock.

💵 Entrance fee / tickets price: free.

🚶 How to get there: located on the outskirts of the village of Vitino, 20 kilometers from Yevpatoria (Ktna-200 radio telescope and Adu-1000 antennas on the map).

Therapeutic Airchinskoe Lake in Vitino

Less than a kilometer from the center of Vitino there is Airchinsky lake or estuary, bottom mud which is officially recognized as therapeutic. During your vacation, you can use this gift of nature for free for cosmetic or therapeutic procedures. But since there is no infrastructure for mud treatment, you will have to extract mud from the bottom yourself and carry out procedures in the Wild on the shore. However, it is quite simple to do this: you do not have to dig pits or wells, but simply with your hands or an improvised object to go deeper below the silt level by a few centimeters, and get fresh black mud from there. If you go a little further, you can get a blue shade of dirt, which is considered more useful for cosmetic purposes. However, it is worth remembering that self-treatment with mud is not recommended by specialists, and therefore it is worth adhering to at least simple rules, which you can read about here - about therapeutic mud in the Crimea and how to use them

.

Practical Information

🕐 Working hours: around the clock.

💵 Entrance fee / tickets price: free.

🚶 How to get there: Airchinsky Lake on the map.

Museum "marine curiosities" in Shtormovoe

This is a unique Museum of its kind, the exhibits of which are unusual objects washed ashore by the sea. The idea is to show how nature in the face of the sea can become an artist, creating almost objects of art. Of course, in fact, the exhibits are far from art objects, but the stones, for many centuries or even millennia, turned by waves to The Shape of the head of an alien, a bun and the like, can not but surprise. The exhibits in the museum are both man-made (stones, shells) and man-made (bottles, ceramics, even chairs), but changed beyond recognition during their stay at sea.

Visiting the museum includes accompanying a guide who tells informative and interesting stories, and involves visitors in fantasies about what this or that exhibit looks like. There are also master classes for children on making handicrafts-souvenirs.

Practical Information

🌐  VK group: vk.com/club25899120

🕐 Working hours: excursions from 18:00 to 20:00. master classes at 12:00-13:00 and 13:00-14: 00. Before visiting, it is better to call and agree on the time of the tour, Tel. +79787935200.

💵 Entrance fee / tickets price: -

🚶 How to get there: located in the village of Shtormovoe on Lenin Street, 8 (Museum on the map). You can get here by suburban buses from the bus station of Yevpatoria.

Therapeutic lakes Oyburskoye, Adzhibaychik and black mud

Fans of taking mud baths can go to one of the three salt lakes with therapeutic mud near the storm. Lake Oyburskoye is officially recognized as curative and is known for deposits of blue clay containing useful minerals, metals, salts and trace elements. It is believed that it cleanses and disinfects the skin, and therefore is actively used for cosmetic procedures. Next to it separated by an embankment road is a small unnamed lake with black silt mud. And on the other side of the village there is another officially recognized healing Adjibaychik lake with black and Blue Mud. There is no infrastructure for carrying out medical procedures here, and therefore you will have to independently extract mud from the bottom, which is not difficult, since all the lakes are very small. Learn more about medicinal mud in Crimea and how to use it here.

Practical Information

🕐 Working hours: around the clock.

💵 Entrance fee / tickets price: free.

🚶 How to get there: all three lakes are located near the resort village of Shtormovoe, 30 kilometers from the city. Oibur Lake on the map, Ajibaychik Lake on the map and nameless lake on the map.

Z.City or remains of "Kazantip" in Popovka

On the beach of Popovka many years ago there was a festival of modern electronic music "Kazantip", known all over the world. For the festival, buildings and unusual art objects were built right on the shore, which have now become the main attraction in the resort of Popovka. To walk among these strange objects, and at the same time relax on the excellent sandy beach, even come here from neighboring resorts, for example from Yevpatoria and Saki.

Today, some objects have been made into something like rides that you can climb and climb (but be careful), and some work as cafes and beach bars with music. And by the way, it will be interesting here not only for adults, but also for children who are very happy to climb the intricate structures of Z. City. Learn more about Z.City or remains of "Kazantip" and more photos here.

Practical Information

🕐 Working hours: around the clock.

💵 Entrance fee / tickets price: entrance to territory Z.City is completely free.

🚶 How to get there: Z. City is located on the beach of the village of Popovka on the south side, is it at the bottom of the map or on the left side of the beach (Z.City on the map).

Cape and Peninsula Tarkhankut

Tarkhankut is one of the largest and most beautiful natural attractions of the Crimea. On the peninsula you can see the picturesque coastal landscapes, which stretch for almost 10 kilometers. Of course, Tarkhankut does not belong to Yevpatoria at all, because it is more than 100 kilometers away from here. But it is worth visiting it for one day on your own transport or go with an excursion. Therefore, we include Tarkhankut in one of the places that are definitely worth visiting during your vacation, especially since it is completely free if you go on your own. Learn more about Tarhankut and how to visit it here.

Practical Information

🕐 Working hours: around the clock.

💵 Entrance fee / tickets price: free.

🚶 How to get there: Tarkhankut is located 100 kilometers north of Yevpatoria (Cape Tarkhankut on the map). You can visit it on your own transport or with excursions, but you can not go there by bus for one day.

Local History Museum and lapidarium in Chernomorskoe

The Local History Museum-Reserve "Kalos Limen" and lapidarium in Chernomorskoe is the main regional museum. We recommend that you visit it without fail and first of all before you go to get acquainted with the settlement of Kalos Limen, the ruins of the "Pansky" settlement in Mezhvodnoye and other historical places in Chernomorskoe district. The museum is small, but very informative to visit. Quite recently, a complete reconstruction has been carried out here, and therefore you will be pleasantly surprised by the excellent condition and, although small, but neatly presented collection of exhibits, which in traditional form tells about the history of the region from different periods. Learn more about the Local History Museum and lapidarium in Chernomorskoe here.

Practical Information

🌐 Website: https://kaloslimen.ru/

🕐 Working hours: June-August from 10:00 to 18:00; September from 10:00 to 18:00, Closed Saturday; October-May from 9:00 to 17:00, Closed Saturday and Sunday.

💵 Entrance fee / tickets price: adult ticket – 150 rubles;reduced ticket – 75 rubles; children under 16 years – free of charge. Entrance to the lapidarium with a tour is paid separately: adult-150 rubles; preferential-100 rubles; children 7-16 years – 50 rubles; up to 7 years – free of charge.

🚶 How to get there: The Museum and lapidarium are located in the center of Chernomorskoe village in the same building at 8 Revolutsii Street (Museum on the map). From Evpatoria here a little more than 70 kilometers on a good asphalt road, which can be overcome in an hour. We advise you to combine a visit to the Black Sea with a trip to Cape Tarkhankut, but it is better to leave early in the morning to have time to see everything.

Settlement "Kalos Limen" in Chernomorskoe

This is the main and most famous historical and archaeological site in Chernomorskoe district, and indeed in the northwestern part of the peninsula. These are the ruins of an ancient Greek city, founded approximately from IV BC.E. during its heyday, the city was a fortress with an area of about 4 hectares with a very favorable geographical and economic position, and therefore was constantly raided. It existed until the First Century AD, when it was invaded by the nomadic tribes of the Sarmatians, the inhabitants of the northern steppes and completely destroyed. You can pay for the entrance, and then walk around the territory along the paths and inspect the ruins yourself. But it is much more interesting and informative to first visit the Museum of local lore, and then go here and get acquainted with the Archaeological Park with excursion service, which is offered when buying tickets for an additional fee. More detailed nickname "Kalos Limen" here.

Practical Information

🕐 Working hours:

• June-August - from 8: 00 to 19:00, without a break and weekends, excursion service from 11:00;
• September - from 8: 00 to 19:00, Closed Saturday, excursion service from 11:00;
• October-April-only for preliminary applications;
• may-daily from 9: 00 to 17:00, seven days a week, break from 12:00 to 13:00.

💵 Entrance fee / tickets price:

• Entrance ticket for adults – 100 rubles, preferential-50, children under 16 years-free of charge.
• Excursion service for adults (per person, not a group) - 300 rubles, preferential – 200, children from 7 to 16 years – 100, children from 5 to 7 years – 50, children under 5 years – free of charge.

🚶 How to get there: the entrance to the Archaeological Park "Kalos Limen" is located on the shore from the main beach of the Black Sea (entrance to "Kalos Limen" on the map). From Evpatoria here a little more than 70 kilometers on a good asphalt road, which can be overcome in an hour. We advise you to combine a visit to the Black Sea with a trip to Cape Tarkhankut, but it is better to leave early in the morning to have time to see everything.

Museum of wooden sculptures in Chernomorskoe

The Museum of wooden sculptures or the museum-exhibition "Forest sculpture" in Olenevka is a private collection of original products from parts of trees, roots and stumps. There are whimsical figures of fairy-tale characters, masks, vases, pens and pencils, and even furniture. Some of them are real works of art with their own idea. All exhibits can be viewed and touched, and what you like, even buy. Prices start from 100 rubles for the simplest products, and reach tens of thousands for complex sculptures. During the inspection of the museum, the hostess or the owner tells about the exhibits, how and from what they are made, and can also tell a lot of interesting things about the village.

Practical Information

🕐 Working hours: during daytime.

💵 Entrance fee / tickets price: 50 rubles for adults, children free. For buyers, admission is free.

🚶 How to get there: the museum is located in the House of the author and artist at Pavlenko STR., 18 (Museum on the map). From Evpatoria here a little more than 70 kilometers on a good asphalt road, which can be overcome in an hour. We advise you to combine a visit to the Black Sea with a trip to Cape Tarkhankut, but it is better to leave early in the morning to have time to see everything.

🕒 3 May, 2026