We cross dry channel of the river two kilometers from the trollybus way; during high water there is a muddy stream running. Demerji river 14 km long starts at south-western slope of the mountain and falls into the sea near Alushta. It has more water in spring and deep autumn and during drought it gets completely dry. It is fed by streams from south-eastern slope of Chatyrdag and western part of Demerji mountains. The area of the river basin is 56 square km.
  Let's turn left 10-15 meters from the bridge and go north to the path leading to a rocky hill. There's a wild garden on its slopes covered by dogrose and hawthorn bushes. The path winds through trees, twists along green lawns, dives into bushes. Sometimes there are two blue lines on tree-trunks – its route marking; you will meet further on stones and rocks similar marks.
  The rise on top takes about 20 minutes. Here you can see ruins of the Foona Middle-Age fortress (in translation from Greek - «smoky»). Not far from the fortress there are stones piles , former dwelling buildings of a village. There was a trade way near to the fortress and it connected fore-mountain with the seashore.
  Both the fortress and the village at the bottom of the mountain and the mountain itself were called Foona. Leter people has forgotten the mountain name and called it Demerji, which in translation from Tartar language means «a smith». The village had the same name (possibly smiths lived there).
  Let's look at the further way from the fortress hill. Demerji mountain seems to be rather close from this place; there are round rocks arising south-east, there are piles of stone landslides to the left and 250 m steap wall of Demerji mountain over it. The rocks of the mountain are very dangerous for climbers because they are soft.
  In spring of 1894 horrific roar has shaken the village at the bottom of Demerji mountain. Huge lumps of stone fell down from the height of 200 m, one of them broke down four houses. Stones were rolling down from the mountain during crimean earthquake of 1927. The last rockfall from Demerji is dated August 1966. It was so strong that seismic station in Alushta registered it as an earthquake.
  There are more than a million of cubic meters of fragments are concentrated in the collapse. The size of the biggest fragment devided with a creak is about 2000 cubic meters. There's a path winding between large stones of the rockfall and thin dogrose bushes; there's a route mark on one of the stones. The path is good and all the points are well seen so you won't lose yourself. Let's make 25 minute's walk from the source and climb onto the right board of a ravine. Here's a famous Ghost Valley! This wild landscape amazes imagination. Numorous figures of aeration resemble fantastic monsters, birds and animals, fortress bastions…
  While making smooth bends the path goes up. The rise takes only 30-35 minutes and we come onto the mountain covered with soft grass, to the stone rock of cone form. It resembles angular tower of an ancient fortress. From this place the path, while bending around Southern Demerji, comes to a familiar rock well seen from the trollybus way from Simferopol to Alushta. It is often callse Katherine's Head. From a short distance the rock rather resembles Sphynx head. At the Head the path forks. We should go to the right along a slope by rocky rockfalls to a little pass between Northern and Southern Demerji. This path is very convenient: it has no steep slopes and in five minutes of walk from the pass we rise to the top of Southern Demerji.
  Here they are – blue shell of the sea, emerald mountains, lit by golden sunrays, gardens around Alushta, vineyards.
  Mighty and beautiful mountains surround Alushta amphitheater: there's Babugan mountain massive westward, Chatyrdag to the north. There is Kastel mountain behind Alushta near the sea, and after it Bear Mountain. Green top of Chamni-Burun is seen close to a bare skull of Babugan Mountain. Agis-Hir ridge with Kebit-Bogas Pass goes between Babugan plateau and Chatyrdag. Black mountain, Chuchel mountain and Basman mountain are situated behind it. Angarskiy Pass goes from Demerji plateau to Chatyrdag. Tirka mountain adjoins Demerji from the north.
  Eastward far into the sea is seen Meganom Cape. We can see the cone of Falcon Rock and Sudak at its feet. Enigmatic blue Karabi is crowned by Kara-Tau peak. There are tiny houses of Solnechnogorskoye and Malorechenskoye at the sea.