Yasinia. An Easy Short Route to Heredzhivka (818 m)

The village of Yasinia lies at the crossroads of tourist routes between the Svydovets and Chornohora ranges. The Yasinia railway station is the terminus for trains from Kyiv, Zaporizhzhia, Odesa and Kharkiv, and travellers from various regions of Ukraine choose this distinctive Hutsul village to master mountaineering skills. When, on long hikes with significant elevation changes, the wisdom of the trail has been absorbed, the backpacks are packed and there are 2-3 hours left before the train departs, an unhurried ascent of Mount Heredzhivka near the station will be the farewell chord of a Transcarpathian holiday.

 

Yasinia, Mount Heredzhivka. View of the Chornohora range

Sheep Farming. A Folk Craft of the Carpathians

"Oh sheep, my sheep, some black and some white,

Who will drive you along the holy Sunday?"

A merry band of curly-fleeced lambs jingles like a swirling stream down the mountain slopes. Devouring the young shoots of shrubs and the grassy cover, the brotherhood moves at a brisk pace from one pasture to another.

 

The Carpathians. Sheep