The Old Fortress, the loop of the Smotrych Canyon, two bridges and a church with a Turkish minaret. We tell you what to fit into one day and what to add on the second.
Ukraine's second most important Orthodox shrine after the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra. The Dormition Cathedral, the footprint of the Mother of God in the rock, a cave church with the relics of St. Job and a panorama from a towering bell tower.
Ukraine has two very different seas: the salty Black Sea and the warm shallow Azov. Which resort suits whom, when to go, and what's genuinely wrong with the coast, honestly on jellyfish and safety.
The Dnipro's largest island, where a reconstructed Sich, a Cossack museum and river cliffs sit side by side. Here is what to see in a day.
Almost all of Ukraine's hot thermal springs are gathered in Zakarpattia, where in winter people bathe in water of 30-42 degrees. We break down the temperature, prices and the best time for a trip.
Within an hour or an hour and a half of Lviv stand the Golden Horseshoe castles, the Tustan cliffside fortress, royal Zhovkva, and the sulfur resort of Shklo. We cover the distances, travel times, and how to get there without a car.
A flight is statistically safer than the drive to the airport. We break down the sounds, turbulence, and techniques that actually cut through panic.
Octagonal Rynok Square, a Town Hall panorama, the pedestrian stometrivka and Potocki Palace: a concrete one-day route, and why Frankivsk is the main gateway to the Carpathians.
The highest mountains of Ukraine are the Carpathians, and the main peak is Hoverla, 2,061 metres above sea level. We explain how to climb it from Zaroslyak, when to go and which other two-thousanders of the Chornohora ridge are worth conquering.
The three-tiered Palanok Castle on an extinct volcano, a town hall with a clock tower, a bronze chimney sweep on a cornice and thermal pools nearby. A ready one-day route with honest tips.
The Shatsk Lakes are more than thirty karst waters in the northwest of Volyn. The main one, Svitiaz, is the deepest natural lake in Ukraine, and people come here for clear water, pine forest and a holiday without salt or crowds.
Sofiyivka is a man-made park in Uman with lakes, a waterfall and an underground river, laid out in 1796. We cover what to fit into one visit, when to go and how much entry costs.
The floating Roshen fountain, European Square, the monastery Mury and the Pyrogov estate with an embalmed surgeon's body: a concrete route and the key warning about seasonality.
Lubart's Castle from the 200-hryvnia banknote, the underground old town, pedestrian Lesya Ukrainka Street and a strange fortress-synagogue: a concrete one-day route through Lutsk, plus how to get there.
Dzhurynskyi Waterfall near the village of Nyrkiv in the Ternopil region drops 16 metres in three cascades and is considered the largest lowland waterfall in Ukraine. We explain how to get there, when to go for full flow and what to see nearby.
