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)

Did you know the Lviv tram is 130 years old

Lviv is impossible to imagine without the tram, and over its 130 years the city's rail transport has become one of the city's calling cards.

 

Lviv. A tram on Stus Street

Train 143 Sumy-Rakhiv. Ammendorf Cars, Views from the Window

Train No. 143 Sumy-Rakhiv connects Sumy Oblast (5 stations), Chernihiv Oblast (2 stations), the capital of our country, Vinnytsia Oblast (2 stations), Khmelnytskyi Oblast (1 station), Ternopil Oblast (1 station), Lviv Oblast (2 stations), Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast (6 stations) and Zakarpattia Oblast (3 stations).

 

Train No. 143 Sumy-Rakhiv

Train 816/815 Lviv-Rakhiv. The 'Rakhivoz' Transformed

Train 816/815 Lviv–Rakhiv is already familiar to passengers who have chosen routes for a relaxing getaway and a reset.

 

Train No. 816/815 Lviv–Rakhiv–Lviv

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

Mykulychyn. Church of the Ascension. Hutsul Architecture

Mykulychyn is the largest village in Ukraine, made up of several uchastky — uchastky precisely, not mere plots — located on the slopes of the Carpathian Mountains. In the centre of the village rises a church with the status of an architectural monument, consecrated in 1868 in honour of the Holy Trinity. The church could not hold all its parishioners, the people of Mykulychyn and visiting guests, while for the residents of the mountain village districts it was not always convenient to reach services along mountain dirt roads and trails. In 2003, on the remote uchastok of Polumystyi at the foot of the emerald ridges (gruni), in the valley of the Prutets Chemyhivskyi River, a new Church of the Ascension of the Lord was built.

Mykulychyn. Church of the Ascension of the Lord. 2003. UGCC

Ivano-Frankivsk. The Town Hall Museum and Its Panorama

Ivano-Frankivsk is a regional centre in the west of Ukraine. Its former names – Stanislaviv, Stanislav – are still used by local residents. In 1962, on the occasion of the 300th anniversary of its founding, the city was renamed in honour of an outstanding son of the Ukrainian people, Ivan Franko. The city's main symbol, its calling card, the Ivano-Frankivsk Town Hall, rises in the very heart of the city on the Rynok (Market) Square.

 

Ivano-Frankivsk. The Town Hall

Prosiana. The Biggest, the First and the Unusual

Prosiana — a village in the Dnipropetrovsk region that emerged at the end of the 19th century. Today, in this village — which 30–40 years ago was promising and looked no worse than a town — there are more downsides than upsides. My walk through this settlement, «golden» in the past, took me about 3 hours, and here is what I managed to learn and see. 

Yaremche. The Probiy Waterfall and Other Hutsul Wonders

Yaremche – a climatic and ski resort in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast and a centre of green tourism – enchants visitors with its landscapes and its natural and man-made landmarks. 

Yaremche, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast