Chatyrdag
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Chatyrdag (Crimean Tatar: Çatırdağ, Ukrainian: Чатирдаг, Russian: Чатырдаг) is a mountain in Crimea, near Simferopol-Alushta highway. In the Crimean Tatar language çatır means tent and dağ means mountain.
The mountain consists of two plateaus - the lower (north) and the higher (south). The lower plateau slopes gently toward its north side, which is covered with steppe grass. On its south end (near the steep slope of the higher plateau) the lower plateau is covered with beech forests and juniper glades. It has many hike trails and several beautiful caves (see a list below). On the east side of the lower plateau there is a relic grove of yews.
The upper plateau has a shape of a giant bowl and its most high edges have their own names as independent peaks. The upper plateau is covered with alpine meadows. Its slopes are very sharp and contain climbing and alpinistic routes of all categories of difficulty.
[edit] Some caves of Chatyrdag mountain:
- Mramornaya cave
- Emine Bair Hosar cave
- Fur-tree cave
- Obval'naya cave
- Vyalova cave
- Artuch-coba
