Weekend tour across Transcarpathia from the travel company «Miracle Travels»

Thursday

• At 19:00 a group of tourists is landing in the city of Kiev at the Zhitomirskaya metro station.
• At 21:00 tourists land in Zhytomyr (central bus station, near the Belarusian Republican Youth Union gas station).

Friday

• At about 09:00 the group arrives in the Volovets village, a small village located at the foot of the Plai and Temnatik mountains (the foot of the Ukrainian Carpathians).
• Accommodation in private hotels «Greenwich», «Verkhovyna», equipped in the best traditions of hospitable Transcarpathia with comfortable rooms of the European level. The hotels are located near the picturesque Synevyr Lake and the Shipot waterfall, in the valley of the Vich and Volovchik rivers near the foot of the Temnatik and Plai peaks, at an altitude of about 500 m above sea level. The magnificent view of the mixed forest and the Carpathian Mountains give the hotels a special charm. Nearby there are ski lifts Podobovets, Pylypets.
• The Greenwich Hotel is a 4-storey building in the center of the Volovets village. The hotel has 15 rooms. In the room: bed, wardrobe, bathroom, TV, balcony, bath accessories, heating, satellite TV, Wi-Fi. Entertainment at the hotel: barbecue, fishing, horseback riding.
• The hotel «Verkhovyna» from the facade of the building resembles a small mansion, but inside everything is done without unnecessary pathos. On the first floor there is a spacious hall and a restaurant, the second and third floors are reserved for guest rooms. There are rooms for two, three, four. All rooms are equipped with a standard set of furniture: double or twin beds, TV, electric kettle, Internet access, wardrobe, coffee table, shower, bathroom. Some rooms have a balcony and a small hall. The rooms offer a good view of the mountains.
• Breakfast.
• Bus and walking tour with a visit to the Pylypets ski resort: ascent on a panoramic lift to the observation deck of Mount Gymba (1491 m.), The opportunity to look at the unique Shypot waterfall, which is considered one of the deepest and most beautiful waterfalls not only in Transcarpathia, but also throughout Ukraine. Water falls in sparkling cascades from a height of 14 meters. Everyone who stands near the waterfall will be able to hear one of the fabulous legends that adorn the stories of the tour guides.
• Arrival to the Transcarpathian village of Kelechin, which has one of the largest deposits of ferruginous mineral waters in Ukraine. In the village of Kelechin there are three mineral springs, and the mineral water has an original, pronounced taste and color - bright orange. A delightful sight - mineral water flows into the stream and turns it orange!
• You will have the opportunity to try on yourself the healing properties of the water of the Soyminsky mineral spring (a feature of the chemical composition of cold boric carbonate medium-mineralized chloride-hydrocarbonate sodium-calcium mineral water «Soima», which makes it unique, is the high calcium content, in comparison with other calcium hydrocarbonate waters , is the presence of biologically active concentrations of other trace elements - manganese, zinc, lithium, boric acid, iron, which led to its separation into a separate Soima subtype among the Essentuki-type water group in the classification of mineral waters).
• Next, you will drive to the Synevyr National Park, the visiting card of which is the fabulous Synevyr Lake - the most beautiful lake in Ukraine. All tourists of the Ukrainian Carpathians consider it their duty to walk and make a photo session on Synevyr, because the landscapes of the lake amaze with their splendor and extremely picturesque nature, and slender 150-year-old spruces on the steep slopes around the lake seem to grow directly from the water surface. Naturally, this place also keeps its romantic-mythical story about the unfortunate love of the count's daughter Sin for the shepherd Vir... In addition, in 2014, Ukrainian filmmakers filmed a horror feature film «Synevyr», which is based on horror stories about a tribe of half-sons. which are still popular with the locals.
• Lunch in the hut.
• In the area of Lake Synevyr, a resident of the village of Synevirskaya Polyana opened an eco-park in which three breeds of wolves live, both adults and small ones - ordinary gray, snow-white and even with thick, black wool. All the wolves were brought from the Kharkov zoo, and the little ones were even still blind. Wild wolves live in special enclosures. A separate house was built for each family.
• Despite the fact that the park is called the Valley of the Wolves, they are not the only ones found there. Behind the fence you can see a lynx, a tiger and even a couple of lazy lions lounging in the sun. But even this is not the most hit of the eco-park! After walking a little further, you can see a huge paddock with deer, camels, yaks and even llamas! With great skill, they can be stroked and fed a little. A great place from which you will have a lot of vivid impressions.
• Return to the hotel.
• Dinner.
• Free time. Optional visit to vats with medicinal herbs. Those who wish can visit a trout farm (a private estate on the territory of which there are pools where trout are bred and raised), take part in fishing, with its further cooking on coals.

Saturday

• Breakfast.
• The beginning of this excursion day will be a tour of the Schönborn Castle.
• The elegant hunting palace-castle of the Counts of Schönborn is located in the Beregvar tract on the outskirts of Chinadievo, 10 km from Mukachevo. It can be safely attributed to the list of outstanding architectural structures of Ukraine. This romantic palace, like any castle, is associated with a sad love story of one of the representatives of the Schönborn dynasty for his wife. They say that the ghost of a woman offended by jealousy still walks along the corridors of the castle... And it is also interesting that the castle project is based on an astronomical year: there are 365 windows in the castle (number of days in a year), 52 chimneys (number of weeks in a year) and 12 entries (number of months in a year). In addition, you will hear many beautiful legends associated with the park that surrounds this fabulous palace. No wonder filmmakers do not pass by this preserved architectural splendor.
• Since 1946, a clinical sanatorium «Karpaty» was opened on the territory of the estate, where cardiovascular diseases are treated. There is a pump-room with mineral water «Polyana Kupel». The building of the Schönborn Palace is currently one of the buildings of the sanatorium. At the bottom of the road is the railway station «Sanatorium Karpaty», which is made in the same romantic style as the palace.
• The castle is surrounded by a beautiful park with many exotic plants.
• There is a legend that many centuries ago the northern regions of the Roman Empire bordered on mountains, dense vineyards grew on their slopes, from which delicious wine was made. For the storage and production of good wine, the owners of the vineyards forced the captured Turks to cut through special cellars in these mountains by hand using a pickaxe. Therefore, Transcarpathian wineries are no longer news, but rather a must-see point on the gastronomic map of a tourist in Ukraine.
• Visit to a private tasting room You will have the opportunity to taste the best varieties of Transcarpathian wines according to old traditional and individual recipes. Local experts will tell you the history of their wines, answer your questions, and, of course, you can buy your favorite wines.
• A visit to the world-famous thermal pools of Transcarpathia in the village. Kosino.
• On the territory of the complex «Thermal waters» Kosino "there are five pools, three of them are thermal. They all work at any time of the year. The large thermal pool partly goes into the «Royal Hall», where you can relax and go to the tea room, shower room, changing room, massage room or the shop of the complex. The temperature in the thermal pools is +41 °C. The fourth pool with «Aquabar", its temperature is + 25 °C, filling - fresh water. The pool with musical accompaniment is made in Mexican style. The fifth, children's pool, is open during the summer. He has a children's playground. All pools are surrounded by sun loungers, comfortable paths, equipped with fountains and underwater geysers.
• Thermal waters in the village of Kosino are unique in composition not only in Ukraine, but throughout Europe, with the exception of the water, which is treated in the world famous sanatorium «Gaiduszoboszlo» (Hungary).
• Return to the hotel.
• Dinner.
• Free time (kolyba, barbecue, sauna). Optional visit to vats with medicinal herbs. Those who wish can visit a trout farm (a private estate on the territory of which there are pools where trout are bred and raised), take part in fishing, with its further cooking on coals.

Sunday

• Breakfast.
• Vacation of numbers.
• The last day of the excursion program you will start with a visit to a private cheese factory in the village of Belasovitsa. Here, with the help of modern equipment, several varieties of cheese are made according to Swiss technology, processing organic milk, which is supplied by private farms of local farmers. After tasting all the varieties produced, you can purchase the ones you like.
• Departure for an excursion to the Upper Grabovnitsa to the Bunker of the Arpad Line - a military defensive facility during the Second World War, built by the Hungarians under the leadership of the Germans. It was dug in the thickness of the mountain at a depth of 50 to 100 m by two battalions of Romanian prisoners. The bunker has 3 tiers, 4 exits to the surface and an extensive system of bunkers. The length of the tunnels is about 2 km. There is a source of clean drinking water underground. During the war, the bunker was used as a hospital, a warehouse for food and ammunition, etc. According to some reports, this is the largest military bunker in Europe, which has survived to this day. Now a small museum, a wine cellar and an exposition on historical themes have been created for visitors. It should be remembered that in the bunker, like in a cave, a constant temperature of about +8 degrees is maintained. Extreme elements: Dukel Pass in the west and Yablonetsky Pass in the east.
• 13:00 Departure to Lviv.
• 16:00 Meeting with the guide. Sightseeing tour of the old town.
• Until 21:00 Free time to get acquainted with the evening life of this amazing city, admire its fabulous architecture. You will give yourself an unforgettable experience of visiting the picturesque and already such well-known establishments of the old city, such as «Kryivka», «Antikrizova Kneipa», «Pid Sinyu Plyashkoyu», «Gasova Lampa».
• Having charged with energy, vigor and good mood, we say goodbye to hospitable Transcarpathia and go home.
• ≈ 21:30 Departure to Zhitomir, Kiev.
• Arrival in Zhitomir (≈ 04:00), Kiev (≈ 06:00).