I had a chance to visit this place in November - probably in summer it attracts more visitors, but the autumn beauty of teh place is also well worth seeing.I used the cable road to get on top of the park, because it is quite long and high stretching, which seemed to me a challenge considering absence of preparation :-)From the top, I was walking down the park, looking into every corner, sometimes had to open the umbrella (which did not do a good job, because of the high humidity, however))). The collection of rare plants arranged into beautiful compositions lined by scultptures and buildings make the park look really like a fairy tale. If I have a chance to come back to Sochi, I will definitely use it to visit this place again, at another season.
This is a great park! Take a funicular up and make sure to take the steps to the observation rooftop - you can see far away and around, very beautiful! And then just walk down slowly, taking your time, feeding squirrels, taking pictures and just breathing fresh air. There is a nice little cafe up on the hill, where you can taste honey cider and russian dishes, it seems like you are in a middle of a forest in a wooden cabin. There is a small exotic birds sanctuary worth passing by, the mansion of the founder (very beautiful) and another side across the street, make sure not to miss it!
The park is really beautiful during the whole year. It has plants and trees from all over the world. But the restrooms are bad there, specially in late autumn and winter.
If you like nature and fresh air, its good place on two-free hours minimum for walking. Many big tropical plants.
Back home to get any plant-things such as -vetochka pine (great height),gjeemolostj - bush (with beautiful aromatic),get very fine relax and joy ).
A nice activity for a weekend. Recommend to take one full day to explore. I am not a person interested in botanical gardens but it was a good activity. The whole place is located on a mountain so be prepared for some good physical exercise.
A great dendrological park of the early 20 century. Although in quite neglected and not very well maintained state, still very pleasant and beautiful. Great pond with white and black swans, geese and colorful ducks, a lot of southern trees and pines from all around the world. Great place to spend a couple of hours in the afternoon or jogging at any time of the year. Entrance fee 120 roubles, guidebook (in Russian) with map 30 roubles.
We visited the arboretum in January when wet snow was falling. Initially we planned using cable car to climb the hill but due to weather conditions it wasn’t operating. However we were quite lucky that right at the entrance we were advised to join a guided tour. It cost insignificant amount of money but made the excursion more exciting and extremely informative. The gentleman who led us seemed to know his job incredibly well. He showed all most remarkable plants, told about history of the arboretum, its buildings and former inhabitants. Describing a certain tree he could magically pull out of his bag examples of that tree’s branches, leaves, cones or seeds. Funny, but the tour let me recall certain things what I studied on biology classes at school.It was curious to know which movies were filmed there. His storytelling was so inspiring that the same evening we watched the famous soviet movie based on Stevenson’s stories “The Rajah's Diamond”. Yes, we found all sites recently seen in the arboretum.Well, it makes sense to visit this garden again in April or May. I’m seriously considering this.
We took a cable car to the top of the park and the view was very good. Walked down throw the park and saw the doctor's summer house, statuary, gardens and fountains.
It is a very nice park also known as botanical garden , entrance fees is 450 ruble with funicular better to use it because it is long way up , nice trees and animal and birds