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    Day 3

    113 mi1 mi

    Waterfalls, tea tastings and famous arboretum

    A beautiful serpentine ride - to a tea plantation and waterfalls, a London gastronomic adventure, shopping under the spire and a promenade.
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    Adam Chay
    10:101 hr

    Adam Chay

    Café
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    One summer, an acquaintance told me about Adam and Antonina Khusht, Krasnodar tea growers, and let me try their "Adam Tea. I liked the tea, especially the delicate white one, and going on a road trip around Big Sochi, I decided to go to Adam's plantations to see, taste, and get acquainted with them.
    At the plantation (it is in Lazarevsky district, and it takes about two hours to get there from the hotel, but along a beautiful road that goes from the seashore to the mountain serpentines), near a tiny tea factory, I was met by Antonina Khusht, a tea designer in the recent past, and now a tea grower, gardener (the family also has a persimmon garden) and a young mother.
    Adam and Antonina leased 18 hectares of abandoned plantations from a collapsed state farm six years ago. The tea bushes behind the weeds weren't even visible. However, the old, 50-60s plants (Camellia Sinensis) in the feral plantations were definitely there, and they were alive. The abundance of moisture and the subtropical climate prevented the bushes from dying.
    Some of the plantation has already been rehabilitated, some is still waiting to be cleared. A small factory - with German and Chinese equipment - has been built. The old pickers, who had not yet lost their skills and could pass them on to the younger ones, had been found. Now Adam and Antonina annually make two tons of tea - white, green, red (that is, in our words - black). They control the whole fermentation process themselves.
    You can get to the plantation, contact in advance by phone +7 (905) 405 00 96
    You will be met, given a taste of tea, and with tea - a jam from dogwood, from a young walnut, from mulberry, and you, in turn, can buy a great tea!
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    33 Vodopada
    11:3045 min

    33 Vodopada

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    From Akhintam, where the tea factory is situated, it took a quarter of an hour (firstly by asphalt, then by broken country road, so the driving qualities of Nissan X-Trail rented by Avis were in great demand) to get to Dzhegosh tract with 33 cascade waterfalls (they are the part of Sochi National Park), of which thirteen are open for visiting (the ticket price is 200 rubles, payment by cash only).
    There is a wooden sidewalk going from the waterfall to the waterfall, though some of it is destroyed by the trees piled up in the winter storm. The whole route takes from 30 minutes to one hour, depending on whether you are going to take pictures with each mountain stream or approach the process selectively.
    There are plenty of stalls at the entrance to the gap. If you want to buy Adygeya salt, honey, more tea or magnets for your fridge - everything happens right here. And if not here, then on your way back from Dzhegosh to the highway, where you will be met by a couple of amateur ethnographical museums, several cheese factories, ostrich and trout farms, and, at last, an institution with the speaking name "Caucasian Table". Be vigilant!
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    Covered parking
    14:005 min

    Covered parking

    Parking
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    Go back to the center of Sochi, park your car at the already known parking on Ordzhonikidze and change your clothes - no one will disturb you in the deserted covered parking lot. Why change your clothes? There is a "non-sporty" dress code (jacket and shoes) in the place where the lunch is planned.
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    Bar London
    14:151 hr 30 min

    Bar London

    Restaurant
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    First of all, it's an excellent, renowned bar. Secondly, it is a place where you can smoke cigars (part of the hall is equipped with a brutal hood and serves as a cigar room). Thirdly, it's a bar with great food: the ambitious and very technical chef Alexey Shilin offers sets of six changes, and that's the kind of set we recommend you order.
    The set includes sweet Greenland shrimp tartare (under a blanket of Murmansk scallop, with smoked sour cream and pike roe), salmon in almond petals with root vegetable cream, lamb shank soup with bulgur, veal, foie gras with parsnip and fennel, dessert. Portions are small, so no heaviness or remorse will haunt you! Book a table at the bar "London".
    If you want something a little less formal, go to the Barceloneta restaurant, it's in the same building and belongs to the same gastronomic group (London Restaurant Group) as the bar. Ask for a round table with a view of the Seaport and order the tuna (bluefin carcasses arrive here twice a week). And come back to London later and... without a car. At Barceloneta book you can get a table online.
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    Morport Sochi
    16:0045 min

    Morport Sochi

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    Cross the road to the Seaport, another of Sochi's architectural landmarks.
    The house with the spire (from sea level to the star on the spire - 71 meters) was built in the mid-fifties, designed by Karo Alabyan and Leonid Karlik, who designed not only the building, but also the entire territory of the seaport.
    Karo Alabyan (the street in Moscow is named after him) was an outstanding personality: he was an honorary citizen of New York, Executive Secretary of the USSR Union of Architects, author of the Stalingrad Restoration Plan and Khreshchatyk Street in Kiev, participated in the General Plan of Moscow, was married to the actress Ludmila Tselikovskaya and was connected by blood brotherhood with Anastas Mikoyan.
    Today the Marine Passenger Terminal, which used to host the big cruise liners (it was the point of departure for the "Mikhail Svetlov" in "Brilliantovaya ruka"), has lost its meaning connected with the sea: the first floor of the main building, renovated for the Olympics, is occupied by Bosco di Ciliegi shops (Bosco Sport, Articoli perfume and cosmetics, Gucci, Etro and other boutiques) and Louis Vuitton, on the second floor - seasonal restaurant "Chaika" (also managed by Bosco and not open in winter); and on the gallery - a relatively new and beloved by Sochi residents and visitors of the city restaurant "Dolphin and Mermaid".
    Meet us on the waterfront, offering transport by boat, photographers and sellers of other goods and entertainment. Don't deny yourself anything!
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    Morskaya Naberezhnaya Tsentral'noy Chasti Sochi
    17:002 hrs

    Morskaya Naberezhnaya Tsentral'noy Chasti Sochi

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    If the Bosco stores have not completely dragged you down, go out to the water, walk along the gallery of the Marine Passenger Terminal and immediately after it turn to the Marine Embankment of the central part of Sochi. If the stores dragged you, make your choice, put things aside at the checkout (you will come back for them later - and there will be time to think, and there will be no need to carry bags), and then go out to the sea, to the embankment, and walk until the sun goes down in the Black Sea (check in advance the sunset) and the lights are on.
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    Syrovarnya
    20:001 hr 30 min

    Syrovarnya

    Restaurant
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    Tonight's dinner (on the way home to the hotel) is at an institution that is a joint project of the Garden Group and Arkady Novikov. The entire staff was trained at the Novikov School. The chef is Vladimir Zemlyanoy, who has ten years' experience as a chef in Moscow and three years as a brand-chef in Russia.
    Open daily from 12:00 to 00:00 Phone for reservations: +7 (862) 236 01 10 or at website.
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    Radisson Collection Paradise Resort & Spa, Sochi
    22:0011 hrs

    Radisson Collection Paradise Resort & Spa, Sochi

    Lodging
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    Back to the hotel. We have big plans for the next day.
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