The Golden beach at Cape Aya is located 5 kilometers from Balaklava. The high shore comes close enough to the water, so the beach is very narrow. Its length reaches 300 meters. There used to be a beach infrastructure here, but now it looks abandoned. This happened after the ban on the set up of tents in the protected area of Cape Aya.
According to legend, a British ship sank near this beach during the Crimean War (1853-56), which delivered salaries to the Balaklava garrison. Then coins were found in the sea, and the beach was called Golden.
On the edge of the Golden Beach there is a place where adherents of Eastern religions, various Krishnas, followers of the Roerichs and seekers of Shambhala like to gather. When it was possible to set up tents here, dozens, and possibly hundreds of adherents of these religions gathered here. This place resembled Tibetan temples, but with the tightening of the environmental regime of the Cape Aya Nature Reserve, most of the ribbons and other ritual objects were removed.
Now the set up of tents on Cape Aya is strictly prohibited. The nature protection regime of the reserve has been tightened, but visits to all beaches in the daytime are not limited. A Great Sevastopol Trail runs on the high shore along the Golden Beach. Fig Beach is located 2 kilometers to the east, and if you go to the west, you will first see a picturesque Gray Rock, and 800 meters further there is a Silver beach.
