Digital Wanderer

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Crimea — 3, The Road to the Monastery

The next day we grabbed our feet in our hands, or rather our bikes in our teeth, and rolled off wherever the GPS was looking, namely somewhere in the area of the Belbek river and the villages of Maloye Sadovoye, Bolshoye Sadovoye, and Tankovoye. We were hoping to find a cave city there, but for some reason we found a monastery in the rocks. But first things first.

In a forest clearing, a group of people and a dog are busy setting up camp and cooking food. A barefoot man is pouring water from a canister, a woman in a red t-shirt is sorting something in her hands, and bottles and dishes are visible on the camping table.
In the morning we were greeted by a dog begging for grub, albeit politely
An overcast landscape of a reservoir with an expansive dry shore in the foreground, a person in a red boat on the water, and a concrete dam with gently sloping hills in the background under a gray sky.
I hope you aren't too sick of the magical views of the reservoir yet

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