The lake is just a fire, especially in sunny weather when you drive up to the descent to Khanh, it's very beautiful. Mountains in the clouds, the color of water. I liked.
Sochi beaches leave much to be desired. The accessible strip of the Chaika beach, in calm weather, is about 8 meters to the sunbeds, during the period of sea unrest is zero (water licks the legs of the sunbeds). The beach is never cleaned from beer jams, steers and other debris (I drive for 15-20 days for the second year in a row). Service? There is no word for it at all: there are no urns, they do not correct crooked umbrellas, they do not send out citizens drinking openly, beer, wine, there are no toilets, there is a smell of urine in the changing booths and one nail (apparently to hang up from grief on it). The prices for ice cream for 3 balls are 200 rubles, in Irkutsk, for example, 180. All fruits from 200 rubles per kg. In Siberia, at the same time, peaches, grapes, etc. are on the markets from 180 (Krasnoyarsk, Novosibirsk, Irkutsk). If there is excitement at sea (wave height about 40-50 cm), everyone is kicked out shouting: "get out of the water", that is, not respected vacationers, due to the excitement ....
Drunks are not escorted off the beaches, which is why the beach workers themselves receive scandals with the threat of a fight (daily, around 17-18 hours). The prices in the cafe are exorbitant, in Siberia they are one and a half times less. For example: the deposit of a number of beach cafes is at least 2000 rubles. Chum salmon steak from 300 rubles per 100 grams, The cost of 100 grams of labeled potatoes from 110 rubles, etc. in cafes, including city and canteens, the staff is impolite, so impolite that people take a dressing down, put plates of food on it, just leave the queue, leaving everything. I do not recommend Sochi and most likely the rest of the Russian beaches.