Travel tips in Ukraine

Walks and treks

Carpathian Mountains and Hoverla

Rakhiv Raion, Zakarpatska

The Ukrainian Carpathians are a land of forested mountains, wooden churches and Hutsul villages.

Historic sites

Kamianets-Podilskyi Castle

Kamianets-Podilskyi, Khmelnytska

A medieval castle on a rocky promontory beside a deep river canyon, guarding the bridge to an old town that sits almost on an island in a loop of the…

Historic sites

Kyiv Pechersk Lavra

Kyiv

A great Orthodox monastery complex founded in 1051, with golden-domed churches, a bell tower and caves where monks' mummified remains lie in undergro…

Historic sites

Lviv Old Town

Lviv, Lvivska

A UNESCO-listed old town of churches, cafés and cobbled streets in western Ukraine, with influences from Polish, Austrian, Jewish and Armenian commun…