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Miracle Donkey Farm.


Location: 28 km to the east-east of Balaklava, in the village. Zalisne, Bakhchisarayskiy district.
How to Get There: From Balaklava you need to go by shuttle bus or by hired/owned transport from Balaklava you need to go by shuttle bus or by hired/owned transport with first 8 km drive along the national highway N-19 "Sevastopol-Yalta" towards Yalta, where behind Balaklava you will need to turn left on the territorial road T0105 in the direction of Krasny Mak village and drive another 20 km to Zalesnoye village.

Wonder Donkey Museum

More and more people are favoring green tourism, coming for a vacation or a weekend in the forest, mountains, village. Riding donkeys among picturesque landscapes is a delicious «highlight» of such a vacation.

In Zalesnoye village of Bakhchisaray district you will find the only farm in Ukraine for breeding Somali and Nubian donkeys.

A walk through the most beautiful places of the Crimea on donkeys very much like both adults and children, who get, maybe, the first contact with animals in their lives. After all, it is very important for a small person: to look into the eyes of an intelligent and kind animal, to stroke it, to rub its mane, to give it a crust of bread on the open palm….

donkey rides

On the program:
* A tour of the farm — the «home» of these wonderful animals. Getting to know each other.
* Getting into the character of an oriental nobleman — the great lord of the long-eared.
* A tiring walk on donkeys along the mountain routes around the legendary sphinxes of the Karolezkoy Valley, to the foot of Mangup Mountain, to the cave city of Eski-Kermen.
* Receiving a special document «Donkey Driver».
* Tasting of donkey milk (in season)
* Rest in the magnificent cherry orchard of the farm.
* Good cuisine.
* Children’s playground.
* Contact zoo (donkeys, horses, Vietnamese piglets, Hungarian oxen, ornamental chickens, Cameroon goats, peacocks, ostriches, pheasants, geese, etc.).

vacationing in the farm's gorgeous cherry orchard

In recent years, unconventional types of treatment are becoming more and more popular: influence on a person by the biofield of a horse, a dolphin. Medicine has already said its word about donkeys. This animal has a beneficial effect on people with various types of nervous diseases. Even people with cerebral palsy feel much better after traveling on this animal. In addition, a horse is too big for a child, and a dolphin is also in a different environment. And here is a donkey, small, with ears, with kind eyes and well known from cartoons….

Welcome to our farm in the village of Zalesnoye!

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