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go down to the ancient caves, drive African Safari, discover a virgin nature of Amazonia river and Taiga forests, fall in love with colorful landscapes, dissolve in the boundless wheaten fields, look into the rich inheritance, excite the best sights, feel the cool-ness of crystal-clear water, inhale the gulp of fresh air of the Alps and the Mediterranean sea, feel the drive of ethnic folk, hear the legends of the most beautiful middle ages castles, enjoy homemade food and experi-ence the most interesting traditions and national hospitality?
Answer: in UKRAІNE!
UKRAINE – DISCOVER NEW DESTINATION IN EUROPE:
carpathian mountains •and crimean seasides Middle-century cities •with great architecture ultimate places for •active travel and skiing photohunting •in preserved nature Great shopping •and nightlife THE WORLD
IN ONE COUNTRY
ukraine – is a new travel destination in the centre of europe. very concen-trated and breathtaking architectural, natural wonders, great facilities for active travel, cultural life, nightlife and shop-ping makes ukraine a very interesting country to discover.
KyivLviv
Uzhgorod
MukachevoKamyanets-podilskiy
Ternopil
Chernivtsi
Odesa
Donetsk
Kharkiv
Dnipropetrovsk
Crimea
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TOP 15 PLACES TO VISIT IN UKRAINE Askania Nova Biosphere Reserve (Kherson region, southern ukraine) brainchild of a 19th century German settler, who in very short time imported animalsfromdifferentcon-tinents to this unique natu-ral steppe – the largest remaining natural steppe in europe. today you can see herebison’s,ostrich,fla-mingos,zebra,buffaloes,deers and antelopes and unique dendropark.
Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve (odessa region, southern ukraine) a great bird watching place in europe’s largest wetlands. Besides wetlands here lies Danube’s terminus “0 km. mark” and remarkable vil-lage usually called “ukrai-nian venice” – vylkovo. people are using narrow fishingboatstocrossthevillage streets.
Crimea (southern ukraine) peninsula’s fascinating
landscapes and clean Black see even thou still with post-soviet kitsch makes this land special. a great number of architectural and natural wonders at-tack tourists: Livadia and alupka palaces, Khan’s palace, marvel at the Mediterranean-like beauty Balaklava, ay-petri moun-tain, dramatic volcanic rock Kara-Dag nature re-serve, impressive fortress sudak and gorgeous Yalta coast road. Stone Tomb (Zaporizhia, eastern ukraine) erected 5500-4500 Bc this great stone graves symbolize mystery, power and en-durance. it was the place where ancient people came to perform rites to worship their gods. the
site encompasses a group of isolated blocks of sand-stone, up to twelve me-ters in height, scattered around an area of some 3,000 square meter.
Zaporizhkyy Cossacks Mu-seum Khortycia and Dni-progres DAM (Zaporizhia, eastern ukraine) these two historical and indus-trial miracles are located very close to each other. Khortycia is the main residence of cossacks – ukrainian warriors, who governed ukraine in 15-18th centuries, formed their republic, gave to the worldthefirstdemocraticconstitution and were one of the best warriors in europe and world. and the DaM is two and a half times longer than famous
Hoover Dam – this is one of the greatest ussr’s monumental engineering structures.
Kamjanets-Podilskyy, Khotyn and Tovtry Na-tional Park (Khmelnytsk, central ukraine) Kamja-nets – the 11th century city with a great fortress is located where a sharp loop in a river has formed a natural moat. not far from Kamjanets fortress you can visit breathtaking Khotyn fortress – mas-sive fort overlooking the Dnister river. tovtry – the park where you can see floodedvillage.Theselimestone hills are the last remaining vestiges of the reefs that once existed in what was the Miocene see.
Nuclear Missile Museum (central ukraine) the only museum in the world, where you can not just hear about the rocket construction and ussr missile troops history but go 12 storey underground in Breznev-era elevator to the control room, where you can’t help thinking than once upon a time a simple push of a button could have ended the civilization we know. in the complex you will see four huge decommis-sioned intercontinental ballistic missiles, satan rocket and other military equipment.
Poltava and Ukrai-nian Pottery museum in Opishne (central ukraine) here you can visit modern museum of Battle of poltava – one of the most decisive battles in european history between cossacks and russian tsar peter i. the museum in opishne is a great pottery complex where you can not just see one of the biggest crafts in ukraine but make your own clay souvenir and explore ukrainian traditions.
Transcarpathians, Yzhorod, Mykachevo (western ukraine) the meeting point of Hungarian, slovakian and ukrainian cultures hap-pened in region which lies deep in the mountains. pretty, small and very european towns Yzhorod and Mykachevo, more than 10 old and mysteries castles and deep vinery traditions will make any tourist beloved with this land. Besides the region has great hiking, rafting and skiing opportunities.
Hutsul Alps – Carpathi-ans (western ukraine) the Hutsul people are an impressive example for the close bond between people and nature and how christianity is mixed with pre-christian customs. Here you can become the guest on the Hutsulian wedding, learn special dances and crafts, explore
unique and a little wild cul-ture. You can have a good rest in green hotels in this premier natural beauties, hike the rolling peaks, visit cave monasteries, visit the only in the word pysanka museum, the museum of Hutsul architecture Grazhda in Kryvorivnya and amazing carpathian wooden churches.
Carpathian Biosphere Reserve (western ukraine) unesco protected virgin beech forests. rolling mountains, pristine lakes, bears – is not the full list of what you can see in this biggest european natural preservation.
Lviv (western ukraine) the central part of the city is included into the unesco world Heritage. Best samples of neoclassical, ro-coco, baroque, renaissance and gothic architecture styles, old and majestic churches, neat narrow streets will take you into very romantic mood.
Carpathian Railway (western ukraine) this unique railway is the only still functioning mountain railway in europe. the
narrow gauge line allows tourists to admire nature of the carpathian Moun-tains, the views of the mountain villages, pick mushrooms and berries, drink mineral water.
Ternopil caves (western ukraine) the ternopil region is home to dozens of karst caves including the 212 km-long optimis-tic cave, the longest such type cave in the world. in optimistic cave, where youcanexploremagnifi-cent crystals you can take excursion or sport tour. Mlynky cave is open for sport tours only.
Holy places of Ukraine – golden domes churches and monasteries, large orthodox complexes is something very special in ukraine. out of 10 Lavra’s in the world, 4 is located in ukraine. You can visit Kyevo-pecherska Lavra with cave church (Kyiv), sviatogirska Lavra (Donetsk region), pochaiv Lavra with cave church (central ukraine), beautiful monasteries in ternopyl, Kremenets and Zarvanytsia (ternopyl region).
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FACTS ABOUT UKRAINE 1. trypilci, which existed
on the territory of ukraine (known as the cucuteni-trypillian culture) from approxi-mately 4800 to 3000 Bc are considered to bethefirstciviliza-tion in europe which started to built houses and use pottery while european tribes still lived in caves.
2. the medieval state of Kyivan rus, with its capital in Kyiv, was founded in 9th cen-tury. During the 10th and 11th centuries, Kyi-van rus became the largest and most pow-erful state in europe, especially during the reign of Yaroslav the wise who was married to ingegerd olofsdot-ter of sweden, the daughter of swedish King. their daughters became queens of norway, France and Hungary.
3. parts of ukraine belongedtodifferentempires for centuries: the ottoman empire, poland-Lithuania, austrian-Hungarian and russian empire. ukraine as it is now was formed only in 1954 when the crimean peninsula became part of the ukrainian soviet socialist republic.
4. in 1710, ukrainian Hetman pylyp orlyk introduced “pacts and constitutions of rights and Freedoms of the Zaporizhian Host”, at that time a super-progressive docu-ment which meant to separate powers into three branches and regulate the rights and responsibilities of the
government and citi-zens. some research-ers believe that this document is one of the world’sfirstconstitu-tions.
5. ukraine became inde-pendent state in 1991.
6. ukraine, on its own initiative, refused the third largest arsenal of nuclear weapons in the world. at the mo-ment of the declara-tion of independence, ukraine had over a thousand nuclear war-heads and the third largest nuclear poten-tial after russia and america. now tourists can visit formerly secret missile objects as the museums.
7. the dominant religion in the nation is or-thodoxy, followed by catholicism, protes-tantism, Judaism and islam.
8. the world’s heaviest aircraft, the antonov an-225 Mriya was designed in ukraine in 1988 and is still manu-factured in Kyiv. the aircraft holds the world record for carrying the heaviest ever load.
9. the subway station arsenalna in the Kyiv city center is the deep-est subway station in the world at 105 meters below ground. according to popular belief, arsenalna was home to secret bun-kers for the political elite of soviet union.
10. the ukrainian cur-rency, hryvnia, derives from the hrivna – the massive necklace of gold or silver that an-cient kings once wore.
11. ukraine has the largest reserves of manganese ore in the world, 2.3 bil-lion tons, or about 11%
of the entire world’s deposits. and there is a lot of iron ore in ukraine; 7% of all world iron ore reserves.
12. ukrainian musical ins trument «trem-bita» is the longest musical wind instru-ment in the world.
13. the carol of the Bells,
the most popular christmas carol, was originally composed by the ukrainian composer Mykola Leontovych.
14. ukrainian is the second most melodic language in the world after itaian. it was resolved on global linguistic conference in paris in 1934.
15. with an area of 603,628 square kilometers, ukraine is the second largest contiguous country on the european continent.
16. ukraine is the large country, whose ter-ritory is entirely in
europe; ukraine is located in east-central europe.
17. ukraine claims to be home to the geo-graphical center of europe, which is near the western town of rakhiv. other places in europe claim to have the center, andthedefinitiondepends on the methodology used.
18. Mikhail Bulgakov said about ukrainian capital and one of the oldest cities in europe: “there is no more beautiful city in the world than Kyiv».
19. nearly all (99.4 per-cent) of ukrainians over 16 years old know how to write and 70 percent of the popula-tion has a higher education.
20. there are at least 25,000 fortune tell-ers, magicians and astrologists of all kinds in the country where many people are superstitious.
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ukraine is located between asia and europe so its culture is a combination of eastern and western european influences.Withmorethan 110 ethnic groups, there’s a lot of diversity and unique characteristics in ukrainian culture. Dur-ing the renaissance and the rule of the Byzantine empire, ukrainian culture went through tremen-dous changes. Dominated by the eastern orthodox church and pre-christian traditions, ukrainian cul-ture also shares its origin with the neighboring Belarusian and russian cultures. the origin of these three cultures can be traced to Kievan rus.
Hutsuls – people of the mountainsthe Hutsul people are an impressive example for the close bond between people and nature. For centuries they have been living in the remote val-leys of the mountainous region – carpathians. it nevermademuchdiffer-
ence whether the King of poland or the emperor in vienna governed them, and the church bells still rang out under the long period of sovjet rule during the three years of German occupation.so the Hutsuls live here, a mountain people that has small, shaggy ponies, tends its sheep and loves its forest but not the authorities. Here there are farmhouses made only of wood and in winter the wolves can be heard howling. the families spend the days in a large room, which also contains the loom. the
children weave sheep`s wool and bake fresh cheese to “brynza” in the oven. their christianity is mixed with pre-christian customs. Devil’s women, peoples with cloven hooves and the “unclean” who steal the souls of the dead, still haunt the land. However, their love of
festivities has remained as strong as ever. a wedding with hundreds of quests, who often bring their own food and drink, lasts for three days with dancing, songs with endless num-bers of verses, drinking toasts and new supplies of food, until exhaustion dictates that the festivities must come to an end.
Cossacks – founders of Ukrainian Fighting & Democratic Traditionscossacks are ukrainian warriors, who governed ukraine in 15-18th cen-turies, formed their re-public, gave to the world
thefirstdemocraticconstitution and were one of the best warriors in europe and world.Being great warriors, who can be compared with Japanese samurais or sparta warriors, cos-sacks were a great state leaders and keepers of ukrainian traditions. it was a honorable and rich class from whom english Queen borrowed money and who were often guest of spain Queen and other european monarchs.in 15th century cossacks established as selfgov-erned community in ukrainian steppe, who didn’t acknowledge no ones power. they became warriors who fought for food and money, than they started to protect ukrainian villages from tartars.at the beginning of 16th century the cossacks pop-ulations was drastically growing and they began transformation from warriors into the separate class of the society. they started to form their own legislation which still is acknowledged to be the
most democratic legisla-tion. throughout the time this legislation was codificatedintothefirstconstitution in the word known as phylyp orlyk constitution. French air-port orlie is named after this great leader.till the end of the 16th century cossacks formed their own republic – Zaporizka sich, which is now located in Zapori-zhia. and in 17th century the cossacks Hetman (the Head of the whole class) became the Het-man of ukraine and gov-erned the whole country.cossacks had deep tradi-tions. they were very religious christians, their motherland, religion and freedom were 3 basic values of every cossack
for which they fought for, lived for and died for. Pysanka’s – Ukrainian painted egg Before christianity the egg was associated with pagan rituals and super-stitions, symbolizing the release of the earth from the shackles of winter into spring; with its prom-ise of new hope, new life, health and prosperity. in 988 aD when ukraine accepted christianity, the decorating of eggs
took on a deep religious meaning. the pYsanKa commemorated the resurrection of christ, and a promise of eternal life. the pagan supersti-tions were replaced by religious beliefs and legends.
Vyshyvanka – traditional Embroidery embroidery is an ancient and symbolic tradition in ukraine and occupies an important place among the various branches of ukrainian decorative arts. embroidery has a rich history in ukraine, and has long appeared in ukrainian folk dress as well as played a part in traditional ukrai-nian weddings and other celebrations. appearing all across the country, ukrai-nian embroidery varies de-pending on the region of origin. From poltava, Kiev, and chernihiv in the east, to volyn and polissia in the northwest, to Bukovyna, and the Hutsul area in the southwest, the designs have a long history which definesitsornamentalmotifs and compositions, as well as its favorite choice of colors and types of stitches.
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UKRAINIAN CUISINEUkrainian food is one of the richest national cuisines. its dishes are well known far away from ukraine. and the ukrainian recipes of the foods are very popular nowadays. is anyone, who doesn’t know the ukrainian Borsch?
The Ukrainian food is characterized with large number of compo-nents. For example the traditional ukrainian food – borsch – con-tains 20 components.
TOP Ukrainian recepies are:
Borscht (borshch) is a vegetable soup made out of beets, cabbage, potatoes, tomatoes, carrots, onions, gar-lic, dill. there are about 30 variet-ies of ukrainian borscht soup, and the dish often includes meat.
Paska: traditional rich easter bread. it is shaped in a short round form. the top of the paska is decorated with typical easter symbols, such as roses or crosses.
Varenyky (Per-ogy): Dumplings stuffed
withfillingssuchaspotato and cheese, often served boiled.
Deruny: potato pancakes, usually served with rich servings of sour cream.
Halushki: sweet dough similar to doughnut holes. Frequently tossed with sugar. Halushky (pl., singular is halushka) can alsobefilledwithpoppy
seed or other sweetfillings.
ABOUT UNIQUE UKRAINEUnique Ukraine Travel Company – incoming ukrainian tour op-erator. the company operates from 2008 and has more than 70 author tours and representations in 9 cities. the company is one of the pioneers in ukrainian inbound tourism. the director of the company has more than 15 years experience in orga-nizing the best tours
in ukraine and is author and host of the unique ukraine tv show, which was broadcasted on major ukrainian tv channels.
THE RANGE OF TRAVEL SERVICES WE OFFER:
Group tours •inDiviDuaL anD •taiLor MaDe tours worLD HeritaGe •uKraine tours active tours •HeaLtH, weLLness •anD spa tours recreation in •uKraine corporate tours •anD events
unique ukraine has it’s representations in ma-jor ukrainian cities and will arrange the best city breaks: meeting and logging, sightsee-ing tours in and out of the city.
We are welcoming you in:
Kyiv •Lviv•odesa•crimea•chernivtsi•Kamyanets-podilskiy• uzhgorod •ternopil •Mukachevo•Kharkiv •Dnipropetrovsk •Donetsk •
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WORLD HERITAGE TOURS Unique Ukraine operates a number of tours which includes places from world Heritage List. it may be one-place tour or combined tours from 2 days till 1 week. to the world Heritage belongs:
Saint-Sophia Cathe-• dral and Related Mo-nastic Buildings, Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra (Kyiv) – symbolizes the new constantinople capital of the christian prin-cipality of Kyiv, which was created in the 11th century.
Lviv – the Ensemble • of the Historic Centre – in its urban fabric and its architecture Lviv is an outstanding example of the fusion of the architectural and artistic traditions of eastern europe.
Residence of Buk-• ovinian and Dalma-tian Metropolitans (Chernivtsi) – an outstanding example of 19th-century historicist architecture, also includes a semi-nary and monastery.
Primeval Beech For-• ests of the Carpathi-ans – rolling moun-tains, pristine lakes, bears – is not the full list of what you can see in this biggest european virgin beech forests.
HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL HERITAGE TOURSone will be amazed with ukrainian culture. cossacks – ukrainian warriors who can be compared with Japanese samurais or sparta war-riors founders of ukraini-an Fighting & Democratic traditions. Hutsul’s –
people of the mountains and impressive example for the close bond be-tween people and nature, ukrainian crafts, songs and amazing historical middle century cities will impress even experienced travelers.
We offer tours to:
Zaporizhkyy cossacks •Museum Khortysia Hutsul alps – •carpathians poltava and ukrainian •pottery museum in opishne
Middle century city •Kamjanets-podilskyy, Khotyn and tovtry transcarpathians: •uzhgorod, Mukachevo Bukovyna and Jewish •cultural heritage tours
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Weofferagreat range of activities, from adrenalin days to more relaxed trips.
Rafting – we have more than 10 rivers to raft and differentlevelsfromama-teur and no experience to hard routes.
Caving – a spectacular natural cave systems and more than 10 showcaves, including the 212 km-long optimistic cave, the lon-gest gypsum cave in the
world. the most thrilling sport cave is Mlynky in ternopil region.
Mountain climbing and tracks – carpathians and crimea mountains are charming with virgin
nature, mountain rivers, lakes, abandoned villages and great tracking routes.
Bicycling – for lovers travelling by bicycle ukraine will be very interesting
Ballooning–flyaboveukrainian capital Kyiv, see middle centuries cities or preserved nature from where birds see it!
ECOLOGICAL AND EXPEDITION TOURS ukraine is very rich on reservations and virgin nature.
among the most popular tours:
Askania Nova • Biosphere Reserve and Biruchyi Island (Kherson region, southern ukraine) – the largest remaining natural steppe in europe. today you
can see here bison’s, ostrich,flamingos,zebra,buffaloes,deer’s and antelopes and unique den-dropark.
Danube Delta • Biosphere Reserve (odessa region, southern ukraine) a great bird watching place in europe’s largest wetlands.
Polissia National • Reserve (Zhytomyr, central ukraine) – wild wood forests where still pagan traditions and life style are saved.
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HEALTH WELLNESS & SPA
TRUSKAVETS. is a cosy and pure ecological zone with a moderate – continental climate, one of the oldest health resorts of europe and number one balneo-logical resort in former
ussr. it has unique fa-cilitiesof mineral waters determine main resort treatment directions: urology, gastroenterol-ogy, metabolic diseases and all kind of rehabili-tation.
SKHIDNYTSIA. the small ukrainian Baden Baden and one of the most promising euro-pean health and wellness resorts – that is how euro-pean specialist are talking about mountain resort
skhidnytsia. Healthgiving waters, fresh mountains air – all these components are very helpful in liver, kidney, stomach diseases treatment, radionuclide and heavy metals getting out from the human body.
SPA HOTELS IN CAR-PATHIANS. a number of great spa and wellness small private hotels and big interna-tional chains are located in ecologically clean ukrai-nian carpathians.
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Sea and beaches – Black and azov sea are giving great beach facilities. crimea, odessa, azov sea and Black sea resorts have all kinds of facilities from budget to luxury villas.
Skiing and Snowboard-ing – we have 9 skiing resorts the most popular of which is Bukovel. this is the modern complex with 16 lifts and 50 km of slopes and excellent european facilities.
Mountains & Forests – originally designed, built from ecologically clean wood private houses are warmly welcoming guest and providing the best service.
Lakes & Rivers – for lovers of not hot but re-laxing summer vacations Ukrainecanofferlakesand rivers. two most beautiful lakes with pure clean water full of miner-als svityaz and synevyr are among seven natural wonders of ukraine and have good recreation facilities. also you can gofishingtoDanube,Desna or others ukrai-nian rivers.
CORPORATE EVENTS AND CONFERENCES UniqueUkraineoffersavastarray of team building activi-ties and corporate events to our clients. we are happy to secure a location for the day, ranging from sports grounds to the grounds or a stately home, organize the most fun partyindifferentstyles,meetyourguestandprovidewithlogistics.Whenofferingourpro-gramswewilltakeintoaccountyourspecificrequirementsand preferences and propose several options.
among our services: company fun days•team building activities•themed events•conference organization•indoor and outdoor events•Mice •
also we can provide business people travelling to ukraine with personal assistants, driver, translation.
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