Hutsul Carpathian mountains + Bukovel ski resort
Information
Waterfall in Yaremche, cable car to the top of Bukovel, hands-on museums in Verkhovyna and Kryvorivnia, traditional Hutsul ethnic party.
Note! On the second day of a trip instead of visiting museums in Verkhovyna and Kryvorivnya, you can climb the Hoverla mountain with an instructor or participate in Chornyi Cheremosh river rafting (price for rafting is 500 UAH/person).
Note! From the beginning of April to the end of October this tour is carried out according to the changed route: Hutsul Carpathians + Bukovel
Tour language: Ukrainian. Contact us if you would like to hire a guide who speaks English or another foreign language.
Day 1: departure from Lviv (08:00 a.m.) –Halych (visiting a Halych NNP, nature museum and walk through the Center for the Rehabilitation of Wild Animals) – Ivano-Frankivsk (at 12:00) – Yaremche (waterfalls, Hutsulshchyna restaurant, buying souvenirs and lunch) – Bukovel (chairlift ride to the top of the mountain Bukovel and viewing the Carpathian panorama) – Verkhovyna (a settlement in the Hutsul green tourism estates at 21:00).
Day 2: breakfast and departure (07:30) – Verkhovyna (excursion-concert at the museum named after Roman Kumlyk, excursion and taking photos in the Hutsulian clothes at the museum “Tini zabutykh predkiv” (“Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors”)) – Verkhnii Yaseniv (lunch) – Kryvorivnya (visiting Hutsulian tasting museum “Didova Apteka”) – Ivano-Frankivsk (near at 08:30 p.m.) – Lviv (arrival before 22:50).
Breakfast
You can have breakfast at home, bring snacks or have breakfast during bus stops at catering establishments to your taste and choice.
0 UAH
Lunch
Takes place in the restaurant "Tourist" in Yaremche and consists of dishes: soup with meatballs, bulgur with chicken kruchenik, carrot salad in Korean, bread, compote. The cost is 250 UAH.
250 UAH
Dinner
It takes place in the estates of Verkhovyna. The offered menu: kulesha with Hutsul roast meat and salo, potato pancakes with sour cream, brynza cheese, tea from Carpathian herbs. The cost is UAH 200.
200 UAH
Breakfast
Occurs in the estates, the offered menu: omelet, pancakes with aphenes (blueberries), sandwiches with cheese, tea or coffee. The cost is 130 hryvnias.
130 UAH
Lunch
Takes place at the restaurant “Zgarda” in Verhniy Yaseniv village (Verkhovyna district). Menu: vegetable salad, ukrainian borshch, potato pancaces with sour cream, bread, Carpathian herbal tea. Price: 220 UAH.
220 UAH
Hutsul estates of green tourism in Verkhovyna
It takes place in the cozy Hutsul estates of green tourism in Verkhovyna, rooms: 2 and 3 beds with amenities on the floor.
Halych NNP: museum and the Center for the rehabilitation of wild animals
general, pensioners and students – 90 UAH, schoolchildren – 50 UAH;
90 UAH
Сhairlift ride to the Bukovel mountain and back
general - 400 UAH, pensioners and children up to 12 years – 300 UAH;
400 UAH
Museum of Hutsul life and musical instruments n.a. Roman Kumlyk
general - 80 UAH
80 UAH
Museum “Tini zabutykh predkiv” (“Shadows of the Forgotten Ancestors”)
general, schoolchildren - 60 UAH
60 UAH
Museum “Hata-staya”
general, pension, student, schoolchildren - 60 UAH
60 UAH
Museum “Didova Apteka”
general – 70 UAH (taste liquors and teas), schoolchildren – 60 UAH (taste syrups and teas)
70 UAH
Key landmarks
1
Halych National Nature Park
This reserve is one of the most interesting in Ukraine. Here you can see Ukrainian landscapes as well as the representatives of birds and wildlife from almost all parts of the country. Tourists can visit a wonderful museum "Nature of the Galician Land" and the country's first Center for Rehabilitation of Sick and Found Animals. Bears, wild sheep, foxes, raccoon dogs, wolves, owls, eagles, herons, ducks, and deer are recovering here. And the real "gem" of the Center is a whole family of bison, which are the largest mammals in Europe. Very popular among visitors is the interactive program-quest "Visiting fairy tales" during which you can walk through the forest animal trail, which reproduces the tracks of 14 species of forest animals, as well as visit the hut of Baba Yaga.
2
Yaremche
The famous climatic resort is located between the picturesque mountains in the fascinating valley of the Prut River. Every year, thousands of people admire the cascading waterfall “Probii” (Yaremche Huk) and wooden restaurant “Hutsulshchyna”.
3
Bukovel
Ski resort No. 1 in Ukraine, where you can get to the top of Carpathian mountain Bukovel (1115 m) in the cable-chairlift and admire a beautiful view of the Gorgany and Chornohora mountain ridge.
4
Verkhovyna
The ethnic and geographical centre of Hutsulshchyna, the former village of Zhabie, nestled on the banks of the marvellous river Chornyi Cheremosh; in addition to the picturesque Carpathian panoramas has many other attractions for the discerning travellers. Here, you are warmly welcomed to a concert tour to the private Hutsul Museum of lifestyle and musical instruments named after Roman Kumlyk. In the house-museum of the movie “Shadows of forgotten ancestors”, you can learn about the great love of the Hutsuls Ivan and Marichka, as well as have a photoshoot in the Hutsul clothes. And in the museum of the Polonyna life “Khata-Staia”, you can taste delicious Hutsul brynza.
5
Kryvorivnia - church
The village of Kryvorivnia is a spiritual and cultural center of the Hutsul region, which is visited by guests not only from Ukraine but also from all over the world. Here, right in the heart of the Ukrainian Carpathians, there is the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin, the first mention of which dates back to 1719 and which is an architectural monument of national importance. The peculiarity of the church is that during these three centuries, despite all the trials, it was never closed, and it always hosted worships. At one time, Patriarch Volodymyr Romaniuk, Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky, the founder of "Ukrainian Athens" (as Kryvorivna was called in the early twentieth century), and the parish priest Alexei Volyansky prayed here. Ivan Franko, Mykhailo Hrushevsky, Volodymyr Hnatyuk, Yakiv Holovatsky and many other prominent figures of Ukrainian culture attended worship services in Kryvorivnia.
What is included?
travel by comfortable bus;
travel guide;
excursions at travel attractions;
travel insurance;
accommodation.
*From each purchased tour, we transfer 10% to the Ukrainian Refugee Support Fund. All profits from press tours are transferred to the reconstruction of Ukraine.