Kherson International Airport 5 hr 17
Livadia Palace (11 min)
Expansive, Italian-Renaissance-style palace built for the Russian royal family in 1911, with museum. Massandrovskiy Dvorets (24 min)
Château-style 19th-c. villa built for Tsar Alexander III, now a museum in a landscaped park. Dom-Muzey A.p. Chekhova (10 min)
Museum & scientific library in the restored 1899–1904 former home of Anton Chekhov. Zoopark (11 min)
Large zoo set near the Crimean Mountains with exotic animals & chances to feed & pet them. Yalta, Naberezhnaya (8 min) Gora Ay Petri (58 min)
A cable car transports visitors to the top of this Crimean peak with ocean vistas & various cafes. Nikitsky Botanical Gardens (24 min)
Gardens established in 1812 for scientific research purposes, with notable plant & tree collections. Swallow's Nest (20 min)
Iconic, fairytale-inspired, clifftop castle with an observation deck, dating from 1912. Solnechnaya Tropa (22 min)
Groomed, leafy pathway with lookout spots including a striking rotunda, plus views over peaks & sea. Vorontsovskiy Park (28 min)
Expansive park set around an 1800s palace, with trails, small ponds with swans & a beach pavilion. Water park-hotel 'Atlantis' (7 min)
A complex of elaborate slides, a wave pool, a giant bucket splash & a kiddie pool in a family park. Massandrovsky beach (15 min)
This pebble beach offers public areas & rentable bungalows, plus a promenade with cafes & shops. Glade of Fairy Tales (10 min)
Open-air museum & garden on a mountainside, with sculptures of figures from popular folk stories. Yusupov Palace (22 min)
Tours of an Italianate, 18th-century estate & grounds, plus concerts & theater at a cultural center. Vorontsov Palace (29 min)
Preserved rooms in a 19th-century mansion, with Gothic flair & 99 acres of landscaped park land. | 
