grand array Ai-Petri, towering over the southern coast, the Crimean peninsula has presented a lot of interesting natural objects.This and numerous caves, and strong springs, and picturesque peaks and relict forests, and rivers of clear ice water.
There Ai-Petri and waterfalls.Everyone knows the handsome Wuchang-Su coming off the nearly hundred-meter ledge on the southern slope of the mountain.Still, this is the highest waterfall in Crimea.However, in all its glory can be seen very rarely - after heavy and prolonged rainfall, and even in the spring, when melting snow on the plateau.In the summer, as a rule, the water in the river Wuchang-Su is very small.During this period, other more attractive waterfall adorns the slopes of Ai-Petri.It is located in the north of the array, near the village of Falcon, and called very romantic - Silver Streams (or Silver).
20 years ago on this subject known only to historians and tourists-peshehodniki.It was a quiet area almost untouched mountain nature.But with the development of excursion tourism and recreation, especially when popular among holidaymakers became mountainous Crimea, Silver Falls has become one of the attractions of the peninsula.
Places are very picturesque: covered with beech and hornbeam forest mountainside on which the scattered gray limestone cliffs framed by a dark green moss and ferns.On this hill running mountain river Sary-Uzen, carrying its waters to the river valley Kokkozka.Water flow playfully jumping on the rocky riverbed, then ducking under the ground and form for underflow, then back to the surface, breaking and tearing sills with spectacular cascades of rocky ledges.One of these stages - Silver Falls.Its height of 6 meters, but the height and power of the flow of tourists attracted to it.Silver Waterfall not name any grand or grandiose, it is more appropriate title of most romantic.
Streams of water flow from the stone canopy, covered with shaggy moss.Under the visor is black cavity of a small grotto, against which the jet illuminated by the sun, seem really silver.In winter, there grows a quaint curtain of ice stalactites, through which a waterfall was the second name - Crystal.
river Sary-Uzen is mostly underground power.Its source - the ice stream flowing from the cave-source.Even in the heat of summer, when the majority of the Crimean rivers freezes, the stream always rushing, fueled cave condensate.Therefore, never silent melodious rustle of jets and disappears cloud of tiny droplets surrounding the Silver Falls.It's one of the reasons for the popularity of this tourist object.Besides the waterfall is just a kilometer from the road connecting Yalta and Bakhchisarai and the path to it is simple, smooth and picturesque.There are plenty of famous and not-so attractions: Cave-source Yellow and Yusupov lake, rock and Sedam-Kaya-Kaya Syuyuryu with beautiful panoramic site, Teahouse.Just some few kilometers separate waterfall Silver Streams and river Auzun Uzen arising from the Grand Canyon.
summer in these places are very crowded.To experience the charm of nature here better to come in the offseason when the stillness broken only by the melodious gurgling streams which, despite the time and weather, always drops the Silver Falls.
