Where to Celebrate the New Year in Ukraine: Advice From Lala Tarapakina

If you have not yet decid­ed where to cel­e­brate the New Year, we sug­gest lis­ten­ing to the rec­om­men­da­tions of an expe­ri­enced trav­el­er, the founder of Fonda “12 varts” and Routes in Ukraine #Fol­low­Blue­Bird by Lala Tara­pak­i­na. She does­n’t give bad advice!

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Lala Tara­pak­i­na

“There are a lot of places where it will be good for the New Year, regard­less of whether it snows or not, in Ukraine. I will name a few regions that I per­son­al­ly like and where you can go with a com­pa­ny.

1. Ivano-Frankivsk region

You can go to the Koso­vo region: Verk­hovy­na, Krivopolye, Sheshory, Kos­mach, etc. — these are my favorite places. They are strong, beau­ti­ful and pure, like every­thing else among the Hut­suls. Yes, the Hut­sul region is always clean. I’m prob­a­bly not the CA of the “muse­um of mag­ic” in Verk­hovy­na, but the res­i­dence of St. Nicholas in Pistyn — wait!)))You can go with a com­pa­ny of 6 peo­ple for 80,000 for 4 days to Vorokhta, or you can go with the same com­pa­ny for 10,000 15 km fur­ther, towards Koso­vo.

High­land

Well, about the local — I will not go shop­ping in Yarem­che, only to the Sat­ur­day mar­ket in Koso­vo, I will pre­fer Mrs. Oksana’s frit­ters from Verk­hovy­na to the banosh from Babay, and the view of the moun­tains in Dzem­bron is nicer for me than any obser­va­tion plat­form. And if I go to Bukov­el, only to Stara Prav­da.

You can choose a loca­tion for any wal­let — the price depends on the lev­el and full­ness of the hotel.

2. Lviv region

Slav­ic

I rec­om­mend Slavske and Volosyan­ka. You can stay at the lux­u­ri­ous Vezha Ved­mezha hotel, or you can choose some­thing cheap­er — the nature there is amaz­ing every­where.

I don’t have such a term “ter­ri­bly expen­sive” — ​​only “can I afford it or not.” I have sev­er­al favorite hotels in the Carpathi­ans, I can’t afford them, but they are worth every pen­ny of their mon­ey.

Bear Tow­er

3. Bukovyna

Migo­vo, Nem­chich pass, Vyzh­nyt­sia — in a word, Bukov­ina! Beau­ti­ful, unusu­al, not as vis­it­ed as the rest of the Carpathi­ans, but, nev­er­the­less, it is fab­u­lous there.

Instant­ly

4. Transcarpathia

I would do this: I met the New Year on the Uzh embank­ment, then imme­di­ate­ly — on Vechor­nit­sy in Nizh­ny Sel­ishche, and, with­out regain­ing con­scious­ness, on bograch in “Ordi­nary Gaz­da” near Mukache­vo, and yuhu­u­u­u­u­uu!!! — in the ther­mal water of Kosi­no. And already on the sec­ond of Jan­u­ary — to have break­fast at Chateau Chizay.

Kosi­no

5. Khmelnitsky region

Kamyanets-Podil­sky is a very New Year’s place, per­haps the only cas­tle in the coun­try so beau­ti­ful­ly illu­mi­nat­ed for Christ­mas.

Kami­anets-Podil­skyi

6. Vinnitsa region

You can arrange a trip to the old estates. There are most of them in the coun­try, and they are the most beau­ti­ful.

Tulchyn, Vin­nyt­sia region.

The hotels here are half emp­ty, the roads too, most like­ly there is no snow, but there are cas­tles and I am alone with them at the same time.

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