Big, diverse and largely undiscovered, Ukraine is one of Europe’s last genuine travel frontiers, a nation rich in colourful tradition, warm-hearted people and off-the-map experiences.
Lutsk you will find in northwestern Ukraine, on a defensive site at a bend in the Styr River. It was a tribal settlement, perhaps of the Luchanians, as early as the 10th century. The first known record of the settlement dates to 1085. Lutsk later became a part of the principality of...
We spent three days in the largest city in western Ukraine waiting for our friend Peter who did not arrive. The city was named in honor of Leo, the eldest son of Daniel, King of Ruthenia, it was the capital of the Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia from 1272 to 1349. Lviv was the center of the...
On our way to Lviv, we made a short stop at the Museum of folk architecture and way of life in the Precarpation region (entrance 20 UAH) with our friends Roman and Andrey. The open-sky museum is a structural subdivision of the National preserve “Davniy Halych”. It is on the territory of...
We spent two days in the capital of Prykarpattya – Ivano-Frankivsk. It received its current name in 1962 when during the celebration of 300 anniversary of the city’s foundation, it was renamed in honor of the outstanding Ukrainian writer Ivan Franko. By that time the city had been...
President of the , who we met in Uzhorod, sent us an invitation from a famous retro cars collector Roman Slobodyan to visit him at his Retro Cars Museum near the Ivano-Frankivsk. He showed us his private collection of cars and motorbikes which he got and renovated throughout his life...
We stopped for one night in the historical city in southwestern Ukraine. Chernivtsi is situated on the upper Prut River in the Carpathian foothills. The first documentary reference to Chernivtsi dates from about 1408 when it was a town in Moldavia and the chief center of the area known as...
Rainy and cloudy weather followed us to the largest ski resort in Eastern Europe. The resort is located almost on the ridge-lines of the Carpathian Mountains at an elevation of 900 m near the village of Polianytsia. The resort was pioneered in the year 2000 and built according to the...
We have parked just in the middle of the village Kolochava in Synevyr National Park in the Transcarpathian region, just next to a little pub (beer 0,5 l / 25 UAH). The village is located in the Tereblyanskaya Valley between the mountain ranges surrounded by the peaks of Strym, Rose...
The Crystal-clear Synevyr Lake is called also the “Pearl of Carpathians”. It has been named one of the Seven Natural Wonders of Ukraine thanks to both its picture-perfect scenery and the mysterious legends around its origin. It originated about 10 thousand years ago as a result of a...
Borzhava Range is regarded as the most picturesque destination in the Ukrainian Carpathians. It is also one of the easiest terrains for hill walking. We were not so lucky with the weather, it was raining the whole night, but in the morning, there was a few hours gap without rain, so we...