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

The Malevskyi Complex. Picturesque and Little-Known

Despite all its achievements, humankind is inextricably linked to nature, which has given the people of Earth water, air, light, and warmth. People make everything they need for life from natural materials and forget to value and protect these priceless gifts. Nature offers visual aids for understanding the material world and inspires admiration for the astonishing beauty of the surrounding environment. One of the geological clues to the planetary order can be considered the rocky Malevskyi Complex, located in the south-eastern part of the sub-Carpathian village of Deliatyn.

 

Deliatyn, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast. The Malevskyi Complex

Carpathian Forest. A Winter Walk to Recharge

A forest is always balm for the soul, a source of inspiration and reflection, and winter forest scenes amaze with their charm and stir the imagination.

Deliatyn. There's No Sea, but There Is a Sea Eye

If the tourist trail has brought you to Deliatyn, you absolutely must visit Morske Oko (the Sea Eye), a natural wonder of this Subcarpathian village.

 

Deliatyn. Lake Morske Oko (Sea Eye)

Yaremche. The 'Gedzo' Park of Legends

Yaremche enchants with its landscapes and man-made landmarks, and even during the war unusual attractions are opening at this Carpathian resort.

 

Yaremche. The 'Gedzo' Park of Legends

Lviv. The Lovers' Clock, Least Known and Most Romantic

Clocks in cities serve as timekeepers and are an element of décor, tourist magnets. But in Lviv there are such guardians of time that tourists do not know about, and not all locals have heard of this curiosity. The 6-storey «Nobilis» hotel faces onto Oleksandr Fredro and Ihor Bilozir streets. The hotel opened in late 2011, and during Euro 2012 the Portugal national team stayed there. The «Nobilis» apartments are also chosen by the footballers of Donetsk's «Shakhtar» during their stays in Lviv.

 

Vorokhta. The Leader Among Carpathian Health Resorts

Anyone who has been to Vorokhta has been rewarded with the beauty of the Ukrainian Carpathians, walked the mountain trails, and taken many memorable photos against the backdrop of natural and architectural landmarks. Wonderful scenery and climatic conditions fostered the birth of tourism in the Carpathian region in the 19th century, and today Vorokhta feels no lessening of attention from travellers. In 2024 the village was included in The Best Tourism Villages list of the world's 55 best villages.

  

Vorokhta, Ivano-Frankivsk region

Truskavets. Preserving the Protected Resort Park

Health treatment and rest in Truskavets are impossible without walks through the Resort Park, an ideal place for inspiration and peace of mind. This forest-park massif of astonishing beauty is intended for relaxation; it gives vital energy and tenderness to the soul. It is enough to wander the alleys, admire this picturesque corner, and grow stronger in health.

 

Truskavets. The Resort Park

Mykulychyn. Everything Here Is Hutsul and Distinctive

Thanks to domestic tourism, Ukrainians are increasingly learning about their homeland, their roots, national culture, and traditions. Mykulychyn is a place with many kinds of tourism: health, gastronomic, intellectual, and spiritual. A trip to the largest village in Ukraine allows you not only to commune with natural beauty but also to get acquainted with the Hutsul cultural and historical heritage.

 

Mykulychyn. Ivano-Frankivsk region

The Lazeshchyna River. A Hutsul Mountain Stream

Ukraine has about 30,000 mountain rivers, and we admire the overwhelming majority of these watercourses in the Carpathians. The Lazeshchyna is a typical small mountain river with a stony bed and a swift current; it is 21 km long and flows within the Rakhiv district in Transcarpathia.

The Lazeshchyna River. Transcarpathia

Lviv. The Greenhouse in Stryiskyi Park

Winter gardens were very popular in the 18th–19th centuries, and in castles and villas wealthy owners would add halls with panoramic windows for growing exotic plants. In Lviv, besides the greenhouse complex in the botanical garden of the Ivan Franko University, another subtropical oasis has been created — it is located in Stryiskyi Park. Admission to the tropical flora exhibition is free.

 

Lviv's Fountains, Waterfalls and Water Jets

Lviv's fountains on holiday. After the equipment was dismantled, they were prepared for the winter season. The nozzles were washed with special high-pressure cleaners, the accumulated debris was cleared away, and everything was mothballed until spring. Fountains always adorn squares, green zones and the grounds of educational and health institutions, and they are among the most beautiful architectural masterpieces. I invite you on a photo and video walk through Lviv to structures that demonstrate the use of the law of universal gravitation, engineering logic and designer imagination. 

Train 130 Kremenchuk-Vorokhta. Nadvirna to Mykulychyn

Passenger train No. 130 Kremenchuk-Vorokhta links the centre and the west of Ukraine, an industrial and academic region with the Carpathian land. Residents of the Poltava and Kyiv regions travel by train to Lviv, to Ivano-Frankivsk and to a place of active recreation — the mountain resorts of the Nadvirna area.

 

The Carpathians. A Hike to Yahidna and Lisniv Ridge

To the question "Why do people go to the mountains?", everyone who has climbed mountain ridges and slopes even once will answer: "To change your surroundings, to be alone with nature and your own thoughts, to have an active rest, to be inspired and recharged." So why deny yourself? In the Ukrainian Carpathians there are one-day routes that do not demand a great expenditure of strength and time, yet in feeling and perception are no worse than ascents of the record-breaking peaks.

Mount Lisniv in the Carpathians, Ivano-Frankivsk region

Lviv. The Courtyard Museum. No Entry for Outsiders

Lviv counts more than 40 museums – state-run, private, open-air. The historic centre could itself be called one continuous museum with an unbroken stream of tourists and guests of Ukraine's cultural capital. Lviv folk are creative people with imagination, and in the very heart of this museum-city, in the courtyard of an ordinary residential house, they created their own unofficial museum, which won no small popularity in its few years of existence.

 

Lviv. The house-museum

Truskavets. The M. Bilas Art Museum and Villa Hopliana

Rest and recuperation at the resorts are synchronised with cultural pastimes, and visiting museums and exhibitions is one of the main occupations of the holidaymakers. The Mykhailo Bilas Art Museum stands in the centre of Truskavets, in its busiest spot — Kobzar Square.

 

Truskavets. The Mykhailo Bilas Art Museum. Interiors

Loieva. A Railway Station Condemned to Oblivion

Loieva is a passenger halt in the village of the same name in the Nadvirna district of the Ivano-Frankivsk region. It lies between the stations of Nadvirna and Deliatyn on the Ivano-Frankivsk-Deliatyn line and belongs to the Lviv Railway.

 

Loieva. The abandoned railway station

Lviv. The Science Museum. A Fantastic Journey

This museum is not like its counterparts in the usual sense — a tour of the displays in quiet halls in the company of a guide. At the Lviv Science Museum you can explore the exhibits with the help of integrated programmes. The museum and education centre opened its doors on 25 December 2022 at 200a Stryiska Street, in a two-storey building specially constructed for the purpose, with a floor area of 2,200 square metres.

Mount Yablunytsia. A Three-Hour Walk with a Kolyba Lunch

                                                                  And from the Carpathian summer floats the voice of the trembita

Mount Yablunytsia is one of the eleven peaks that shape the landscape of the high-mountain resort of the same name — Yablunytsia, in the Nadvirna district of the Ivano-Frankivsk region.

 

Mount Yablunytsia near the Yablunytsia Pass, in the village of Yablunytsia

Yasinia. The Museum of Local History

Every town or village ought to begin with a museum of local history or at least a museum room. Local history exhibitions preserve our traditions and cultural heritage, our historical records and objects of the past; they shape the national ethnic code and touch the state of the soul. In Yasinia, in the Zakarpattia region, one of the finest museums of local history in the district has been running since 1966.

Yasinia. Museum of Local History