Bukovel: skis, sleds and Hutsul folk entertainment

Tour Plan:

1st day: Departure from Lviv (08:00) — Rohatyn (overview of the church) — Kolomyia (the excursion to the museum of Hutsulshchyna, the museum of “Pysanka” (Easter egg) and lunch) — Verkhovyna (tasting of live beer “Verkhovyna”, settle into Hutsul estates).
2nd day: Breakfast and departure (08:00) — Bukovel (the free day) — Verkhovyna (return at 20:20).
3rd day: Breakfast and departure (08:00) — Bukovel (the free day) — Verkhovyna (return at 19:20, the Hutsul fun).
4th day: Breakfast and departure (08:00) — Verkhovyna (excursion and taking pictures in Hutsul clothes in the museum “ Shadows of forgotten ancestors ”, excursion-concert in the museum of Roman Kumlik and visit to the museum “Khata-Staya” and buying of cheese) — Kryvorivnia (overview of the church) — Verhniy Yaseniv (lunch) — Yaremche (visit to the waterfall, the purchase of souvenirs) — Lviv (return at 22:30).

Price INCLUDES: 

- Transportation by a comfortable bus,
- accommodation (three nights),
- escort by the tour guide,
- excursion service in tourist sites,
- travel insurance.

Price DOES NOT include: 

- Entrance tickets to museums,
- food,
- participation in Hutsul fun,
- the rent of ski equipment.

Accommodation: 

Hutsul rural homestays in Verkhovyna, rooms: 2- 3 bed bedrooms, with amenities. To see the pictures of the houses, please follow the link www.bit.ly/sadyby_verkhovyny 

Also, you will be able to enjoy:

- History, customs, culture of one of the most interesting ethnic groups in the world – Hutsuls;
- Best dishes of Hutsul cuisine;
- Skiing, sledding, snowboarding in one of the most popular ski resorts in Europe:
- outstanding historical and natural monuments of the region: Hutsul churches, waterfalls, rivers, picturesque Carpathian landscapes, Hutsul museums;
- Exhibition and sale of products of folk masters of Hutsul region: wood carving, weaving, hazel weaving, musical instruments, Easter eggs( Pysanka), cheese toys;
- Unforgettable “Hutsul fun” with musicians, dancing, singing, and delicious Hutsul dishes.

HUTSUL FOlk ENTERTAINMENT!

We invite you to get to khow Hutsuls - an ethnic group of Ukrainians living in the Carpathian mountains, their customs, and cuisine during the Hutsul folk entertainment
- Hutsul cuisine: the soup with white mushroom, banush with cheese, tea with fragrant healing Carpathian herbs…
- Singing and dances by the Hutsul choir “Dovbushova Taistra”;
- Master classes on Hutsul dance: hutsulka, resheto, holybka;
- Hutsul songs, kolomyjkas, songs about the Carpathians;
- Admission to the Hutsuls;
- Dancing, dancing and more dancing to dynamic Hutsul music.
The price of Hutsul dinner and participation in the entertainment – 165 UAH/per person.
The price of participation in the fun without dinner –80 UAH/per person.
Note: Hutsul entertainment only takes place if there is a group of 35 people who want to take part in it.

Tour language: Ukrainian. Contact us if you would like to hire a guide who speaks English or another foreign language.

Price INCLUDES: 

- Transportation by a comfortable bus, 
- accommodation (three nights), 
- tour guide, 
- excursions at tourist sites, 
- travel insurance.

Price DOES NOT include: 

- Entrance tickets to museums, 
- food, 
- participation in Hutsul folk entertainment,
- the rent of ski equipment.

The price of entry tickets: 

- Church of the Holy Spirit in Rohatyn: general - 50 UAH, students – 15 UAH, children - 10 UAH;
- The National Museum of Hutsulshchyna and Pokuttya Folk Art named after Yosaphat Kobrynskyy: general and pensioners - 80 UAH, students - 40 UAH, children – 15 UAH;
- Museum of Pysanka (Ukrainian Easter egg): general and pensioners - 45 UAH, students - 35 UAH, children – 20 UAH;
- Chairlift to the top of the mountain Bukovel (return ticket): general - 150 UAH, pensioners and children up to 12 years – 85 UAH;
- Museum "Shadows of forgotten ancestors ": general, pensioners and students - 35 UAH, children 12-17 years old - 20 UAH, children 6-11 years - 20 UAH;
- Museum "Khata-Staya": general, pensioner and students - 35 UAH, children 12-17 years - 20 UAH, children 6-11 years - 20 UAH;
- Concert-tour to the museum of Hutsul life and musical instruments named after Roman Kumlik: general, students and schoolchildren – 25 UAH;
- Museum “Hutsul Grazhda”: general, pensioners and students – 35 UAH.

Meals:

Breakfasts - 70 UAH/person; lunches — 90-95 UAH/person; dinners - 90 UAH/person.

Rohatyn

Motherland of Nastya Lisovska known as Hurrem Sulran or Roksolana, a wife of Suleiman II the Magnificent. It is a beautiful Galitsian town with nice monuments of sacred art. Wooden church of the Holy Spirit (1598) is one of the most perfect samples of the Galitsian folk’s wooden architecture, it belongs to the most valuable sacred buildings of the world and is listed in the world heritage of UNESCO. Now there is situated the exposition of the regional studies museum, which pearl is a unique for its beauty and the only one in Galitsiya in such style a five-leveled Renaissance altar screen (1650).
Also the attention is drawn by the cathedral of St. Nikolas (the 15th century), built in Gothic-Renaissance style and the Gothic-Baroque Church of the Nativity of the Most Holy Mother of God (the 14th century).

Kolomyia

The town of kolomyikas, one of the most beautiful towns in Halychyna, can boast of magnificent Secession buildings in its central part. Be sure to see the visiting card of Kolomyia, the world's unique Museum of Easter egg painting, also known as Pysanka Museum. It is located in the largest egg in the world, standing at 13.5m high, and has a collection of 12,000 exhibits. In the town, you will also see one of the best museums in Ukraine, the National Museum of Folk Art of Hutsulshchyna and Pokuttia named after Yosafat Kobrynskyi, one of the oldest in Ukraine wooden Church of the Annunciation (1587) and the Town Hall (1877), which is not in the center of the Market square but on a street corner.

Verkhovyna

Ethnographic center of Hutsulshchyna, previously Zhabye which is opening on the banks of the famous Chornyi Cheremosh River, apart of the picturesque Carpathian panoramas it has a lot of other attractions for particular tourists. Here you are welcomed for a concert-excursion in the private Hutsulian museum of household and musical named after Roman Kumlyk. You can get to know about a big Hutsulian love of Ivan and Marichka as well as make photo in the Hutsulian clothes in the hut museum of the movie “Tini zabutykh predkiv" (“Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors”). You can taste Hutsulska brynzda in the museum of the mountain meadow life “Shepherd’s hut”.

Bukovel

It is a mountain ski resort No. 1 in Ukraine where one can be lifted by a chairlift up to the top of the mountain Bukovel (1115m) and from which a great panorama of the chain of the Gorgan and Chornogirskyi mountains is opened.