Black Sea Backpackers
Black Sea Backpackers is located at number 12 in the famous Deribasovskaya Street in Odessa the Pearl of the Black Sea. We are Australian owned and managed and rich in Ukrainian culture and atmosphere. Odessa is beautiful, there are many restaurants and
night clubs only minutes out side your door ...
Odessa (Ukrainian: Одеса, Russian: Одесса; also referred to as Odesa) is the fourth largest city in Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Odessa Oblast (province), and is designated as its own separate raion (district) within the oblast. Odessa is a major port on the Black Sea.
Most of the city's 19th century houses were built of limestone mined nearby. Abandoned mines were later used and broadened by local smugglers. This created a complicated labyrinth of underground tunnels beneath Odessa, known as "catacombs". They are a now a great attraction for extreme tourists. Such tours, however, are not officially sanctioned and are dangerous because the layout of the catacombs has not been fully mapped and the tunnels themselves are unsafe. These tunnels are a primary reason why a subway system was never built in Odessa.