mt. HOVERLA-YAREMCHE

Departure from Kyiv to Ivano-Frankivsk by train No. 43 “Prykarpattia”.

Meeting the guests with a sign near the main entrance of the railway station in Ivano-Frankivsk.

Departure by comfortable minibuses “Merсedes Sprinter” to Yaremche, Ivano-Frankivsk region.

Arrival in Yaremche. Check-in the hotel room capacity of hotel complex.

Breakfast in restaurant of hotel complex.

Gathering at summer area of hotel complex. Acquaintance with members of mountain search-and-rescue detachment of the Ministry of Emergency Situations. Ascent training.

Departure by comfortable minibuses “Merсedes Sprinter” accompanied by the members of the mountain search-and-rescue detachment of the Ministry of Emergency Situations to entry checkpoint of Hoverla reserved forest area at Zavoevili stow.

Arrival in entry checkpoint. Registration of participants at the Carpathian National Natural Park.

Arrival. Visit to the chapel on the territory of educational and sports base “Zaroslyak”.

Arrival. Visit to the chapel on the territory of educational and sports base “Zaroslyak”.

Organized start of ascent of mt. Hoverla. During the ascent, the group is accompanied by the members of the state mountain search-and-rescue detachment, who are provided with first-aid kits, base radio-stations as well as have a “beautiful humour”. Interesting while travelling: The forest is beginning to thin when climbing up. Such forests are characterized by a significant windbreak resistance. The view of a large polonine, where Prut river takes its rise in, can be seen on the left. Alpine meadows begin at a height of 1800 m above sea level.

Rest at peak of mt. Hoverla. Stories and informative data about the peaks of Chernogora ridge. Photographing. Dinner (lunch box).

Organized descent to root of mt. Hoverla.

End of descent, buying souvenir gifts on the territory of educational and sports base “Zaroslyak”.

Departure by comfortable minibuses “Merсedes Sprinter” to Yaremche, Ivano-Frankivsk region.

Arrival in hotel complex. Visit to SPA area of hotel complex.

Walks to rest area “Hutsulshchyna”.

Welcoming party by ethnic music group “Dzherelo Karpat” on entering the restaurant.

Banquet-supper in restaurant “Hutsulshchyna” (the most famous restaurant in the Carpathians)

Entertainment and dance program to musical accompaniment of group “Dzherelo Karpat”.

Return to hotel complex.

Breakfast in restaurant of hotel complex.

Check-out from the hotel room.

Departure by comfortable minibuses “Merсedes Sprinter”.

Excursion and entertainment walking program “By paths of Oleksa Dovbush” accompanied by tourist guide-local studies expert. It is a popular tourist route. The tourist path was created in 1902 in memory of the legendary law and order avenger, O. Dovbush, who acted here in 1738-45.

Rest at peak of rock mass. Photographing. view of Yamna village and Prut mountain river.

Return to root of rest area “Dovbush rocks”.

Departure by comfortable minibuses “Merсedes Sprinter” to recreational rest area “Zhonka”.

Arrival. Rest on the territory of the open-air cage farming. Photographing with Carpathian red deer and wild boars (pigs).

Departure by comfortable minibuses “Merсedes Sprinter” to recreational rest area “Hutsulshchyna”.

Arrival. Excursion and educational program of this landscape. Restaurant “Hutsulshchyna” (the building was built in 1959), Probiy waterfall, formed at a distance of 50 km from the beginning of the head of Prut river (in the middle of the 19th century, this waterfall was expanded with explosions in order to improve for wood floating, but even in this form it looks great).

Dinner in summer restaurant with a view of Probiy waterfall.

Entertainment and expensive program “Hutsul shopping” in one of the largest souvenir markets.

Departure by comfortable minibuses “Merсedes Sprinter” to Ivano-Frankivsk.

Arrival in the central historical part of Ivano-Frankivsk.

Excursion and educational program to the central historical part of Ivano-Frankivsk.

Supper in panoramic restaurant “Legenda-Tsentr”.

Departure by comfortable minibuses “Merсedes Sprinter” to the railway station.

Arrival to the main entrance of the railway station of Ivano-Frankivsk.

Departure from Ivano-Frankivsk to Kyiv by train No. 43 “Prykarpattia”.

Arrival to the railway station of Kyiv by train No. 43 “Prykarpattia”.