JEEPING IN THE CARPATHIANS

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 resort, Ivano-Frankivsk region.

Arrival. Accommodation in a three-star hotel complex (double rooms).

Breakfast in restaurant of hotel complex.

Departure by comfortable minibuses “Merсedes Sprinter” to Yasinya village, Zakarpattia region.

Arrival in Yasinya village. Group transfers into off-road vehicles “GAZ-66” (these vehicles are driven by experienced drivers who carry out the regular winter transportation on the route of Yasinya village — SR “Dragobrat”).

Departure by off-road vehicles “GAZ-66” (local Hummer !!!) on the route: Yasinya village — Dragobrat stow — root of mt. Stig (1705 m above sea level) — Gereshaska high-altitude lake (1577 m above sea level). The group is accompanied by the tourist guides-local studies experts.

Arrival. Rest and informative stories by a local studies expert on the bank of Gereshaska high-altitude lake. Reference data: Gereshaska lake (alternative names — Vyshne-Gereshaska, Dogyaska) of glacial origin. Mt. Dogyaska (1764 m) of Svydovets range is located on the south-western slope at an altitude of 1 577 m above sea level. It has length 125 m, width 110 m, area 1.2 ha, depth up to 1.2 m. It feeds mainly on snow waters.

Swimming in Gereshaska high-altitude lake. Dinner (lunch box).

Departure by off-road vehicles “GAZ-66” to Yasinya village, Rakhiv district, Zakarpattia region.

Arrival. Group transfer into comfortable minibuses “Merсedes Sprinter”.

Departure by comfortable minibuses “Merсedes Sprinter” to Yablunytsya village.

Arrival. Stop at Yablunytsya pass (931 m). Free time to buy home-brewed Transcarpathian wine. Reference data: Yablunetsky pass is located on the border of the Zakarpattia and Ivano-Frankivsk regions. The pass is also called Tatar, because in the 13th century the Mongol-Tatar horde passed through it to Western Europe.

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

Arrival. Rest in rooms and on the territory of hotel complex (visits to SPA area of hotel, table tennis, exercise room).

Supper in restaurant of hotel complex.

Breakfast in restaurant of hotel complex.

Check-out from rooms of hotel complex.

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

Arrival. Excursion and entertainment walking program “Dovbush rocks” 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. Dinner in ethnic Hutsul restaurant “Hutsulshchyna” (the most famous restaurant in the Carpathians).

Excursion and educational program to Probiy waterfall (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).

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

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

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

Departure from Ivano-Frankivsk to Kyiv by train No. 143.

Arrival to the railway station of Kyiv, by train No. 143.