The Carpathian Capriccio. Weekends in the Carpathians

1 tour option - 2 days in Karats + Kiev and Lviv

Departure from Kharkov to Kiev by train number 124 at 22-41

1 day Arrival in Kiev in 8-33. Free time in Kiev. For an additional fee, you can order transport and excursion services in Kiev, visit museums, entertainment centers, ride a boat on the Dnieper, etc.

Departure from Kiev to Yaremche by train No. 357 at 14-28.

2 day Meeting the group in Yaremche in 7-03.

Excursion "Hutsul Switzerland - Yaremche".

This elegant and pretty town, stretched out on the river. Prut, beautiful at any time of the year. You will learn the striking history of the Studite-Doriv Monastery, visit the church of St. Prophet Elijah, the Hutsulshchina restaurant, built without a single nail, the Church of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist. Stop near the Probiy waterfall. The Hutsuls are sure that the places near the mountain waterfalls have powerful energy. Near the waterfall Probiy everyone will feel it: all problems and anxieties are removed as if by hand. Rather, it washes away with water! Visit to the bazaar of Hutsul souvenirs.

The tourist Mecca of the Carpathians - Yaremche - offers guests a variety of tourist attractions: an open-air cage, a rehabilitation center for animals, a barefoot 800-meter trail, a park-museum "Carpathians in miniature", a waterfall "Maiden's tears" in the Zhonka tract, horseback riding and ATVs.

Dovbush trail - it was created in memory of the national avengers-opryshkakh and their leader Oleksa Dovbush, who fought in this territory the national liberation struggle in 1738-1745. During the passage of the route we are surrounded by a mixed forest of beech, yalits, smerek and relict pines, the rocky landscape of the Yamna sandbags, caves 35 of millions of years old, and picturesque panoramas of the Prut river canyon.

Polonina "Makovitsa". Poloninskoe farm is located on the slope of one of the highest peaks of Yaremche - Mount Makovytsya (985 m above sea level). Here you will plunge into the life of the Hutsuls of the XVIII-XIX centuries in the wooden flock (dairy), where guests will have a tour-tasting and will be introduced to the ancient technology of making cheese from sheep's milk. We help ourselves: budz, vurda and brynza. In the local tavern you can spend time in the company of Hutsul musicians and enjoy Carpathian cuisine. You can get to the Makovytsya valley by walking - after the Dovbush trail - another 3 km, or by jeep.

Lovers of pleasure and relaxation are invited to visit aqua-complex "Romantic Spa" hotel in Yaremche. In the complex 3 spa with hydromassage facilities: indoor, outdoor and children's with slides, Finnish sauna, beer steam room, aromagrot, ice room, various kinds of massage.

On the picturesque mountain road, passing the Hutsul villages of Mykulychyn, Tatariv, Yablunitsa, Lazeshchina, having made a stop on Yablunets Pass, we reach the goal of the high mountain resort Yasinya.

 

On the way to Yablunitsa, we suggest to call on "Filled Peppers" *.

Arrive at Yasinya. Check in at the hotel.

Dinner. Free time. You can steam in a sauna or a bath (from 100 UAH per person).

Optional entertainment is offered The Carpathian font *... Carpathian vats in the open air. A fire is kindled under the cast iron vats, and thanks to the peculiarities of cast iron, the water in the vats is heated and constantly maintained at a temperature of 40-42 degrees. In the rest room you can enjoy the taste of Carpathian tea, Viennese coffee, medicinal herbal infusions. Helpful and pleasant!

3 day Breakfast. Walking tour of Yasinya.

In the picturesque gorge on the banks of the mountain rivers Black Tisa and Lazeshchina, surrounded by the highest peaks of Ukraine - Hoverla, Petros and Bliznitsa, - spread the Hutsul village Yasinya. Mountain ridges, like sea waves, rise above the blue sky. Yasinya - the legendary capital of the Hutsul Republic, one of the most picturesque places of Transcarpathia. Yasinya is not without reason called "Heart of the Carpathians", because it is here that the three main ridges of the Ukrainian Carpathians - Montenegrin, Svidovetsky and Gorgan, meet, forming a conditional heart when viewed from space. Yasinya is the most popular mountain recreation center closest to Dragobrat and Bukovel. The village itself has a fairly developed infrastructure: shops, cafes, huts, souvenirs, equipment rental, several drag lifts, among the attractions - Mount Kostyrivka, Peter and Paul Church and Strukovskaya wooden church of the XVII century.


Optional excursions in the Carpathians:

- Pedestrian tours: "On the mountain Kostyrivka", "On the mountain Bukovinka", "To the sources of the Black Tisza", "On the Yablunetsky pass", "To the Smerek and white mushrooms" and so on.

- Excursion "Bukovel - Guk"*. Departure to the most famous mountain resort of Ukraine - Bukovel. On the new road through the Yablunetsky pass to Bukovel just 12 km. The largest artificial lake in Ukraine, a cable car ride to the highest point of Bukovel. The resort offers water entertainment complexes, thermal pools in the open air, saunas, kolyby and restaurants, extreme and children's entertainment, attractions. Visiting is possible Museum "Inverted Hut", Dinosaur Park.

In winter, the Bukovel resort is waiting for fans of skiing.

 

The Jeuness Falls (Hook Falls) - one of the highest, spectacular and popular waterfalls of the Carpathians. The originality of Zhenetsky Falls is that he is very young - he is not even hundreds of years old! In the middle of the XX century. from the collapse of rocks formed 15-meter cliff, from which a rapid stream is now falling. Ectrim lovers are invited to zip-line - the descent of the steel rope over the waterfall.

- Excursion "Along the Tisza + Center of Europe + Solotvino" * "*. A picturesque road meanders along the largest waterway of Transcarpathia - Tysa, forming the border between Ukraine and Romania. We walk along the main street of Rakhov, visit the Church of St. John of Nepomuk, Europe's only museum of mountain ecology and the Museum of Hutsul carving in Rakhov, Trufanets waterfall, The Carpathian Biosphere Reserve, Geographic center of Europe in the village of Dilove, kolyba museum. Here is a stella with a geodesic sign, in which it is written in Latin: "A permanent, exact, eternal place. The center of Europe is set in the 1887 year, the place is measured very accurately using a special device with a scale of meridians and parallels made in Austria-Hungary." Solotvyno - a piece of the Dead Sea in Transcarpathia. Bathing in salt water, the presence of salt in the water which is 275 g / l salt! Rest in the center "Yalinka" - 4 swimming pool with salt water of different temperatures, ice pool, recreation areas.

 

 - Excursion "Manyavsky Skeet - "Carpathian Athos" *. Manyavsky Skete - an ancient ascetic male monastery of the Eastern rite, nicknamed "Carpathian Athos", is located on the territory of a botanical reserve, in the very thick of the Carpathian Gorgan, on the banks of the river. Maniavka. According to legend, it was founded by monks who fled from Kiev in 1240. Walking excursion to the Blessed Stone - a small cave, which was the first refuge of the monks; one of the most beautiful in the Ukrainian Carpathians - Manyavsky waterfall.

- Excursion on Carpathian off-road vehicles (UAZ 69 or GAZ 66) to the highest mountain resort in Ukraine - Dragobrat *... The Dagobrat tract is located at an altitude of 1400 m above sea level at the junction of coniferous forests and high-mountain valleys. The mountains are located among glacial pits, so sometimes the snow lingers here until mid-summer, which makes it possible, even in the heat, to feel the cold smell of snow and a barely noticeable echo of winter. Mount Bliznitsa, Dragobrat waterfall, high-mountainous lakes Geresaska, Vorozheska and Dogyaska - incredibly clean, with cold water, mesmerizing with their beauty and tranquility, surrounded by thickets of asp and lelich.

- excursion to Kolomyia*. Kolomyek city, one of the most beautiful towns in Galicia with authentic architecture of the times of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the cradle of Western Ukrainian history. City Hall, Chornovola Avenue, Cathedral of the Transfiguration of Christ, Church of the Holy Martyr Josaphat. The unique and only museum of pysanka painting in the world, which is located in the center of the largest egg in the world (13,5 m) and has an exhibition of more than 12 exhibits. One of the best museums in Ukraine is the National Museum of Folk Art of Hutsulshchyna and Pokutya.

 

- excursion to Vorokhta*. Vorokhta is an urban-type settlement and a well-known mountain ski and climatic resort, which is located at an altitude of 850 m above sea level in the Ivano-Frankivsk region. Located in the valley of the Prut River in the Carpathian National Reserve. In Vorokhta it is worth to see the wooden churches named after Peter and Paul (XVIII century) and the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (1924-1925), as well as stone railway bridges built in the XIX-XX centuries, the so-called viaducts - masterpieces of technical thought Austro- Hungarian Empire. The first railroad built in this region passed through them. Walk on the chair lift.

 

- excursion to Verkhovyna* - the capital of the Hutsul flavor. All interactive museums here will tell you about the Hutsul history and culture. The Museum of Hutsul Magic, the Museum of the Film "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors", the Museum of Cheese Making and Poloninsky Life "Khata-Staya", the Museum of Musical Instruments of Roman Kumlik, the Museum of Embroidered Clothes of Galinka Verkhovinka, the Ethnographic Center "Hutsul" on the banks of the Black Cheremosh, the estate-museum of Hutsul life and Hutsul instruments by Nikolay Illuk. Master classes on cooking banosh and playing drymba, tasting liqueurs and Carpathian tea in the "Grandfather's Pharmacy". From May 20 to September 20, we invite you on an excursion to polynyu Krynt: on a visit to shepherds who graze cows and sheep on alpine meadows, they cook natural Hutsul cheese - cheese, lamb, budz. Master class on cooking cheese, tasting cheese, collecting herbs.

 

- excursion to Krivorivnyu*.  One of the oldest villages in the Carpathian region on the bank of the Cheremosh. They liked to come here to rest and create M. Kotsyubinsky, G. Hotkevich, L. Ukrainka. It was in the vicinity of Krivorivni Paradjanov who shot "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors". The hut-museum of Ivan Franko, where you can be photographed in national Hutsul costumes, blow into the ancient Hutsul horn. The museum of M. Hrushevsky and "Khata-Grazhda" - Hutsul hut - a fortress in the mountains. If you are lucky, then in these parts you can find a mammoth or molfar.

 

Excursion "Kosov - Sheshory Falls"*  Kosiv - the capital of the national Hutsul craft. Visit to the Kosovo Museum of Folk Life and Art, the exhibition and sale of Kosovo ceramics. Amazing waterfall Hook in Kosovo make us hold our breath. Excursion to the famous Sheshorskiy Silver Falls: the height of the fall of a large waterfall (also Hooke) is 5 meters, and the power of the water flow is fascinating. And near the small waterfalls in the warm season there is a whole beach of holidaymakers and tourists. Manor of St. Nicholas. You fall into a fairy tale. The atmosphere of a miracle creates a great mood not only among children, but also always busy and gloomy adults.

- excursion to Chernivtsi * — Ukrainian Vienna, which is rightly considered the pearl of architecture. City tour. Walk through the old town - a holistic, almost untouched ensemble of the XIX - early XX centuries. Visit the National University - the architectural masterpiece of the former Residence of the Orthodox metropolitans of Bukovina and Dalmatia. In 2012, the city of Chernivtsi was recognized as the most comfortable city in Ukraine.

- In the summer - climbing Hoverla*... How not to take this opportunity and not to accomplish a personal feat - to climb to the highest point of Ukraine - the city of Hoverlu! You will be proud of yourself, and all your friends, relatives and acquaintances will be proud of you! And if you have already conquered Hoverla, then do not despair: there is still Pop-Ivan, Petros, Hamster, Sinyachka, Gorgan, Chernogorsky ridge, Lake Nesamovite, Lake Brebeneskul and others.

 

- in winter* - skiing, snowboarding on the best ski slopes in Ukraine - ski resorts Bukovel и Dragobrat.

- Excursion to trout farm *. Not far from Yasinya is a recreation complex, a pond, fish-trout, where you can catch yourself fresh fish as long as time and a purse allow. And while you wash your hands, there will already be your freshly trout trout on the table, and to her, mouth-watering Hutsul infusions, all sorts of robins, peppers, etc.

 

Dinner... Departure from Yasinya to Lviv by train number 606 at 1-30

4 day Arrival in Lviv in 8-30. Free time.

  

Departure from Lvov to Kharkov by train number 112 in 14-30 (on a daily basis).
Arrival in Kharkov in 10-23

Tour option 2 - 2 days in the Carpathians + Kiev. Return departure from Mukachevo or Ternopol

Departure from Kharkov to Kiev by train number 124 at 22-41

1 day Arrival in Kiev in 8-33. Free time in Kiev. For an additional fee, you can order transport and excursion services in Kiev, visit museums, entertainment centers, ride a boat on the Dnieper, etc.

Departure from Kiev to Yaremche by train No. 357 at 14-28.



2 day Meeting the group in Yaremche in 7-03.

Excursion "Hutsul Switzerland - Yaremche".

This elegant and pretty town, stretched out on the river. Prut, beautiful at any time of the year. You will learn the striking history of the Studite-Doriv Monastery, visit the church of St. Prophet Elijah, the Hutsulshchina restaurant, built without a single nail, the Church of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist. Stop near the Probiy waterfall. The Hutsuls are sure that the places near the mountain waterfalls have powerful energy. Near the waterfall Probiy everyone will feel it: all problems and anxieties are removed as if by hand. Rather, it washes away with water! Visit to the bazaar of Hutsul souvenirs.

 

The tourist Mecca of the Carpathians - Yaremche - offers guests a variety of tourist attractions: an open-air cage, a rehabilitation center for animals, a barefoot 800-meter trail, a park-museum "Carpathians in miniature", a waterfall "Maiden's tears" in the Zhonka tract, horseback riding and ATVs.

Dovbush trail - it was created in memory of the national avengers-opryshkakh and their leader Oleksa Dovbush, who fought in this territory the national liberation struggle in 1738-1745. During the passage of the route we are surrounded by a mixed forest of beech, yalits, smerek and relict pines, the rocky landscape of the Yamna sandbags, caves 35 of millions of years old, and picturesque panoramas of the Prut river canyon.

Moving through the Yablunetsky pass to the alpine village of Yasinya. Check in at the hotel.

Walking tour of Yasinya.

In the picturesque gorge on the banks of the mountain rivers Black Tisa and Lazeshchina, surrounded by the highest peaks of Ukraine - Hoverla, Petros and Bliznitsa, - spread the Hutsul village Yasinya. Mountain ridges, like sea waves, rise above the blue sky. Yasinya - the legendary capital of the Hutsul Republic, one of the most picturesque places of Transcarpathia. Yasinya is not without reason called "Heart of the Carpathians", because it is here that the three main ridges of the Ukrainian Carpathians - Montenegrin, Svidovetsky and Gorgan, meet, forming a conditional heart when viewed from space. Yasinya is the most popular mountain recreation center closest to Dragobrat and Bukovel. The village itself has a fairly developed infrastructure: shops, cafes, huts, souvenirs, equipment rental, several drag lifts, among the attractions - Mount Kostyrivka, Peter and Paul Church and Strukovskaya wooden church of the XVII century.
 

Dinner. You can take a steam bath in a sauna, bathhouse or Carpathian vats (from 100 UAH per person), visit a trout farm.

2 day Breakfast. Check-out from the hotel.

You can choose one of the excursion routes: Rakhiv-Solotvino-Mukachevo or Ivano-Frankivsk-Ternopol:

- Excursion “Along Tisza + Center of Europe + Solotvino” *. A picturesque road meanders along the largest water artery of Transcarpathia - Tisza, which forms the border between Ukraine and Romania. We walk along the central street of Rakhiv, we will visit the Church of St. John of Nepomuk, Europe’s only museum of mountain ecology and the Museum of Hutsul carving in Rakhiv, Trufanets waterfall, The Carpathian Biosphere Reserve, Geographic center of Europe in the village of Dilove, kolyba museum. Here is a stella with a geodesic sign, in which it is written in Latin: "A permanent, exact, eternal place. The center of Europe is set in the 1887 year, the place is measured very accurately using a special device with a scale of meridians and parallels made in Austria-Hungary." Solotvyno - a piece of the Dead Sea in Transcarpathia. Bathing in salt water, the presence of salt in the water which is 275 g / l salt! Rest in the center "Yalinka" - 4 swimming pool with salt water of different temperatures, ice pool, recreation areas.


 

Transfer to Mukachevo. Time for self inspection Palanok castle.

Dinner. Departure from Mukachevo to Kharkov by train No. 45 at 22-38

Arrival in Kharkov in 22-07

- or moving to Ivano-Frankivsk. Sightseeing tour of Ivano-Frankivsk... You will get acquainted with the 350-year history of old Stanislav. It is forever imprinted in its architectural appearance: Sheptytsky Square, Market Square, Town Hall, Potocki Palace, Bastion fortress complex, Baroque Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ, Armenian Church, Temple Synagogue. You will see the monuments to I. Franko and A. Mitskevich, the Armenian Church, the Cathedral. Look at the renovated streets, squares and buildings that create the modern face of Ivano-Frankivsk. It is possible to visit the Museum of the Liberation Movement of the Carpathian Region, the Museum of Local Lore on Rynok Square, the Literary Museum, the Carpathian Art Museum, the drama theater.
 
Lunch. Transfer to Ternopol. Departure from Ternopol to Kharkov by train number 112 at 16-43

Arrival in Kharkov in 10-23

Option 3 - 3 days in the Carpathians

Departure from Kharkov by train number 45 at 12-37 to Lviv

1 day Meeting the group in Lviv in 8-09. Road excursion "Carpathian passes".

Sightseeing tour of Ivano-Frankivsk... You will get acquainted with the 350-year history of old Stanislav. It is forever imprinted in its architectural appearance: Sheptytsky Square, Market Square, Town Hall, Potocki Palace, Bastion fortress complex, Baroque Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ, Armenian Church, Temple Synagogue. You will see the monuments to I. Franko and A. Mitskevich, the Armenian Church, the Cathedral. Look at the renovated streets, squares and buildings that create the modern face of Ivano-Frankivsk. It is possible to visit the Museum of the Liberation Movement of the Carpathian Region, the Museum of Local Lore on Rynok Square, the Literary Museum, the Carpathian Art Museum, the drama theater.

Visiting possible of the Museum "Ancient Galich" in the village of Krylos of the Galich region.

Transfer to Yaremcha. Excursion "Hutsul Switzerland - Yaremche".

This elegant and pretty town, stretched out on the river. Prut, beautiful at any time of the year. You will learn the striking history of the Studite-Doriv Monastery, visit the church of St. Prophet Elijah, the Hutsulshchina restaurant, built without a single nail, the Church of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist. Stop near the Probiy waterfall. The Hutsuls are sure that the places near the mountain waterfalls have powerful energy. Near the waterfall Probiy everyone will feel it: all problems and anxieties are removed as if by hand. Rather, it washes away with water! Visit to the bazaar of Hutsul souvenirs.

 

The tourist Mecca of the Carpathians - Yaremche - offers guests a variety of tourist attractions: an open-air cage, a rehabilitation center for animals, a barefoot 800-meter trail, a park-museum "Carpathians in miniature", a waterfall "Maiden's tears" in the Zhonka tract, horseback riding and ATVs.

 

On the picturesque mountain road, passing the Hutsul villages of Mykulychyn, Tatariv, Yablunitsa, Lazeshchina, having made a stop on Yablunets Pass, we reach the goal of the high mountain resort Yasinya.

Check-in to the hotel. Dinner. Free time. You can steam in a sauna or a bath (from 100 UAH per person).

Optional entertainment is offered The Carpathian font *... Carpathian vats in the open air. A fire is kindled under the cast iron vats, and thanks to the peculiarities of cast iron, the water in the vats is heated and constantly maintained at a temperature of 40-42 degrees. In the rest room you can enjoy the taste of Carpathian tea, Viennese coffee, medicinal herbal infusions. Helpful and pleasant!

2 day Breakfast.

Walking tour of Yasinya. Yasinya - the legendary capital of the Hutsul Republic, one of the most picturesque places of Transcarpathia. Yasinya is not without reason called "Heart of the Carpathians"because there is a conditional heart when looking from space, three main ridges of the Ukrainian Carpathians - Montenegrin, Svydovetsky and Gorgany. Sights Yasinia - sign "Heart of the Carpathians", Kostyrivka mountain, Arpad line, Peter and Paul church and Strukovskaya wooden church of the XVII century.

Optional excursions around the Carpathians:

- Pedestrian tours: "On the mountain Kostyrivka", "On the mountain Bukovinka", "To the sources of the Black Tisza", "On the Yablunetsky pass", "To the Smerek and white mushrooms" and so on.

- Excursion "Bukovel - Guk waterfall"*.
 

- Excursion "Along the Tisza + Center of Europe" * "*.

- Excursion "Manyavsky Skeet - "Carpathian Mount Athos" *.

 - Excursion on Carpathian off-road vehicles (UAZ 69 or GAZ 66) to the highest mountain resort in Ukraine - Dragobrat *.

 

 - Excursion to Kolomyia*.

- In the summer - climbing Hoverla*.

- in winter* - skiing, snowboarding on the best ski slopes in Ukraine - ski resorts Bukovel и Dragobrat.

- Excursion "Kvass water" *. Village Kvasses 30 km from Yasinya - the famous resort of mineral ("kvass") waters, known since the 82th century. In total, there are XNUMX mineral water springs in the Rakhiv region. Sanatorium "Gornaya Tisa", a cosmonaut rehabilitation center, tasting of mineral water from a spring. Excursion to the private craft brewery "Tsypa", brewing secrets, cellars with barrels, legends about the cosmonaut Gagarin and hutsul-bokorash, tasting unique sorts of beer with a light snack. Delicious! You can additionally order banosh, bograch, shashlik, smoked pork ears and other snacks.
 

Dinner.

3 day Breakfast. Eviction from the hotel.

Excursion “Along Tisza + Center of Europe + Solotvino” *. A picturesque road meanders along the largest water artery of Transcarpathia - Tisza, which forms the border between Ukraine and Romania. We walk along the central street of Rakhiv, we will visit the Church of St. John of Nepomuk, Europe’s only museum of mountain ecology and the Museum of Hutsul carving in Rakhiv, Trufanets waterfall, The Carpathian Biosphere Reserve, Geographic center of Europe in the village of Dilove, kolyba museum. Here is a stella with a geodesic sign, in which it is written in Latin: "A permanent, exact, eternal place. The center of Europe is set in the 1887 year, the place is measured very accurately using a special device with a scale of meridians and parallels made in Austria-Hungary." Solotvyno - a piece of the Dead Sea in Transcarpathia. Bathing in salt water, the presence of salt in the water which is 275 g / l salt! Rest in the center "Yalinka" - 4 swimming pool with salt water of different temperatures, ice pool, recreation areas.



Transfer to Mukachevo. Time for self inspection Palanok castle.

Dinner. Departure from Mukachevo to Kharkov by train No. 45 at 22-38

Arrival in Kharkov in 22-07

The cost of the 1st tour option is 2 days in the Carpathians + Kiev and Lviv:

The cost of the 2nd option of the tour - 2 days in the Carpathians + Kiev:

The cost of the 3st tour option is 3 days in the Carpathians:

railway pass (reserved seat), ticket booking, group supervision by the tour operator representative, excursion service according to the program, transport service according to the program, hotel accommodation in rooms with private facilities, meals according to the program.