Ukraine Travel Blogs

Russian's the country of statues of Lenin, Ukraine's the country of statues of Taras Shevchenko, the national poet. There were some sort of independance day (I think) celebrations going on in the square near my hotel.  Or perhaps they carry on ...

A travel blog entry from Khmelnitskiy by budz888
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... the bus-station. I suppose that's why it's a good idea to have a local. Things are definitely a bit different in Ukraine than in those boring countries in western Europe. Once in L'viv we'd been travelling for a while including a really uncomfortable ...

A travel blog entry from Lviv by budz888
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Work trip to Kiev.

A travel blog entry from Kiev by stevefn
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... : Slovakia - 7 days - $25 Hungary - 2 nights - $23 Romania - 7 days - $20 Moldova - a few kilometers - $4 Ukraine - 4.5 nights - $60 (in a hurry, I splurged) I'm a cheap travel date.  Or not; Jana's Slovakian and Mihai's Romanian families ...

A travel blog entry from Primorskaya by modernoddyseus
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... trying to go to Turkey and the Lebanon, I'd go to the Czech Republic and then home to Michigan. Two days later, I legally left Ukraine, and I had to pay a $70 fine to do so.  They'd thought I'd been in their country for the past eight months.  ...

A travel blog entry from Dombasa by modernoddyseus
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Khmelnitskiy's turned out to be a very pleasant mid-sized city.    I spent most of the day trying to find my way around the market.  It's absolutely huge.  No matter how big you imagine it to be you'll still be underestimating it. ...

A travel blog entry from Khmelnitskiy by budz888
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... there are only a handful of hotels in town but I suppose in general you're not going to have that many internal tourists in Ukraine staying at relatively expensive hotels. In any case, I found a room in the second hotel that my taxi driver took me to. ...

A travel blog entry from Khmel'nyts'kyi by budz888
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Upon my arrival in Kiev, I experienced the same magic as with my previous train ride to Dnepropetrovsk.  As I stepped out of the train, it was 8am and the communist opera music was playing quite loud.  Wow, I had the people, the buildings and ...

A travel blog entry from Kiev by erriuc
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... on the ceiling and the ambiance.  It was so exciting, I could not stop smiling and feeling my heart exploding and opening wide.  This was my introduction into the real Ukraine and I could only desire more.   Endless love Erriuc

A travel blog entry from Dnipropetrovsk by erriuc
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After almost a month in Feodosia, I am now on an 18h train ride to the capital Kiev.  Feodosia is one of Ukraine most popular summer retreat destination, mainly because of its access and beaches to the magnetic Black Sea and it's nightlife.  An ...

A travel blog entry from Feodosia by erriuc
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... as I was in need of a holiday, I thought it was time to put my stamp on one of the breakaway countries.   Destination Ukraine   There are two reasons to go.   1) The Beatles said that Ukraine girls really knock me out, they leave the ...

A travel blog entry from Grenica by uncle_davros
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Isn't it funny, how we only ever seem to remember the last disaster. For Seppoes, it's generally the last hurricane down south. For the rest of the world, it's the Asian tsunami. Me, I think further back, but there was one that effected practically the ...

A travel blog entry from Chornobyl by uncle_davros
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Another night train was calling us. This time our heading was South into the mountains. There was a fort down there that was calling out to be explored, and as usual, the night train was shit !!!   Kamyanets-Podilsky   When we arrived, we ...

A travel blog entry from Kamyanets-Podilsky by uncle_davros
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Where to begin explaining what I have experienced?  I have been anticipating this training for so long and although it turned out quite different than I was expecting, it was really worth it.  So much that I extended my stay an extra week to ...

A travel blog entry from Feodosia by erriuc
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... !!! St Michaels Monastery was next. There use to be one here that was years old, but the Soviets knocked it down. Once Ukraine became independent, a copy was built and is meant to look the same. For a building that's 7 years old, it certainly looks ...

A travel blog entry from Kiev by uncle_davros
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Paragliding in Coctebel

A travel blog entry from Coctebel by erriuc
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... to even guess what signs, menus and directions where saying. One of the Canadians could read a very small amount of Ukraine, which helped...but, luckily Yulia, the girl working at the hostel and her friend, Natalie, helped us with translation and wrote ...

A travel blog entry from L'viv by jay29
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Arrival   Because of the way we came, plus the fact we are now in our third time zone for the day, we finally arrived around 19:30. We had a look at the instructions to get to the hostel, and as it was only 5 tram stops away, we decided to walk. ...

A travel blog entry from Lviv by uncle_davros
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... . Loads of beers were downed, before it was time to say goodbye to some new found friends.   And Finally   We loved Ukraine, and all it had to offer. When the Beatles sang about the Uki girls really knock you out, well just like most places, ...

A travel blog entry from Lviv by uncle_davros
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After meeting Mama for an early lunch at the Munich airport (and getting my first taste of the European customer service motto "The customer always has a right to wait 10 minutes until I acknowledge him"), we grabbed a flight to Kiev. There we met Papa ...

A travel blog entry from Kiev by mishaley
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For all those asking for sizes, want no longer... (These are approximates...she didnt take to the tape measure very well!) Height - 36.5 in Weight - 31 lbs Feet - 6 in Legs - 21 in So Lauren's thinking that's about a 2T right now. Thanks

Hi!   Since it's been a while since I updated this thing, I have lots to tell you.  You'd probably get sick of reading this really fast, so I'll try to summarize it quickly.   Once camp three ended, we had a couple days ...

Imagine... ...bribing your way to a college degree.  It happens everywhere here in Ukraine, and very much so for doctors.  What kind of society does that create?  It happened in Tajikistan, too.  One of Chris's friends we hang ...

Let me describe to you Ukrainian Easter. The cooking began last Thursday and lasted well into Saturday. We made special bread called 'paska' that has raisins and lemon rind in it and is covered with merengue. We boiled scads of eggs and colored them. On ...

... !)  In the last week, there have been some crazy number of reported cases here in the Western half of Ukraine sparking quite the reaction nationally.  The president announced yesterday that for the next three weeks schools and cinemas ...

... . I've attached some pictures. It is very cold today and windy. We walked thru several parks, saw a WWII memorial museum, Ukraine's Statue of Liberty, Kiev's Palace, Kiev's Arch which I think signifies freedom, and a beautiful view of the Dnipro River. ...

We all, in a general consensus decided that Odessa would be the city of rest. So we slept until around 10 and then decided to explore a bit. There really isn't much here, just the beautiful Black Sea and a lovely little city. So we just pretty much ...

We really slept late again and our intention was to go to the beach, but by the time we all got ready, it was after 1 and we still hadn't eaten. Sure, you think, just stop by your local KFC and pick up a bucket of chicken and be on your merry little way.. ...

... The Polichko’s are more than happy for me to cover some of these points and we decide to introduce the ZONE in Ukraine. So after Vasyl Polichko’s lesson about the second day of creation, I spoke about conduct.  Since we spoke about Light ...

Hello again!  So yesterday we did end up going to the market, or Bazaar as they call it here, in the next town over about 20 mins away.  We finished up shopping for Talia.  It was a huge flea market there!  Reminded me of ...