Transcarpathian Cheese and Wine Tour + wine festival in Berehovo

Tour plan:

• 1st day (Saturday): Departure from Lviv (08:00) – Karpaty Sanatorium (visiting to the Shenborn castle) – Mukacheve (touring the castle and enjoying lunch) – Beregovo (swimming in the thermal pool and wine tasting) – Beregovo district (staying overnight in rural guest houses (private homes), arrive at 21:30).
• 2nd day (Sunday): Breakfast and departure (08:00) – Nyzhnie Selyshche (cheese tasting) – Iza (shopping for products made from willow and visiting the deer farm) – Mizhhiria (riding a chairlift and enjoying lunch) – Kelechyn (mineral water tasting) – Pylypets (visiting the Shypit waterfall) – Lviv (return at 22:30).

Please note!
The winter tour does not include, Lake Synevyr, a usual summer sightseeing location. Our winter tour does offer many alternate interesting and unique places for you to see and experience.

Also, you will be able to enjoy:

- the best dishes of Lemko, Hungarian, and Boyko cuisine;
- the most prominent historical places of the region: Shenborn castle, Mukacheve castle, Beregovo historical centre, panoramic views of castles of Vynohradiv, Korolevo, and Khust;
- swimming in the thermal pool of Beregovo and visiting the deer farm;
- visiting the Shypit waterfall, riding the chairlift to Makovytsia mountain and taking photos of some of the most beautiful views in the Carpathian mountains;
- tasting of naturally produced cheeses of Selyska cheese factory, based on Swiss technologies;
- tasting of “Kelechynska” mineral water, enriched with iron and well-known for its curative effect for many diseases;
- tasting of vintage wines in old Trans-Carpathian wine cellars and tasting wines produced by private wine-makers of Beregovo region.

Price includes: comfortable bus travel, accommodation, guide accompaniment, excursions to tourist sites, travel insurance.

Price DOES NOT include: tickets to tourist sites, food, tasting cheese and wine.

Entrance tickets price:

- Shenborn castle: full price – UAH 20, schoolchildren – UAH 10;
- Mukacheve castle: full price – UAH 50, students and penioners – UAH 40, schoolchildren under age of 14 years – UAH 30;
- a new thermal pool “Zhaivoronok” in Beregovo: full price – UAH 200 (including rent of a locker), pensioners – UAH 150, children (between 120-150 cm tall – UAH 1000, children under 120 cm tall – free of charge;
- wine tasting: UAH 60, tour without wine tasting – UAH 30;
- tasting three types of cheese and wine: full price and students – UAH 50, schoolchildren – UAH 30;
- the deer farm: pensioners and students – UAH 30, schoolchildren – UAH 20;
- chairlift to Makovytsia mountain (return ticket): full price – UAH 70, children under age of 12 years – UAH 60;
- Shypit waterfall: full price – 10 UAH; children from 11 to 16 years old - 5 UAH; children under 10 years old - free of charge.

Accommodation: cosy rural tourism houses (private homes) of Beregovo region, fully furnished, rooms: 2 and 3-bed rooms. To see the pictures of the houses, please follow the link: http://goo.gl/OqmvIX

Meals:
Day 1
Breakfast – First day breakfast is not included. You can bring food onto the bus for breakfast or snacking.
Lunch – in Mukacheve, in “Riviera” restaurant. The lunch consists of Lemko and Mukacheve cuisine dishes: Green house salad, levis soup (Hungarian goulash soup), for the main course – tarhonya (egg barley, special home-made pasta and meat balls) with mushroom sauce, compote, bread. Price: UAH 90 per person.
Dinner – served by host, in the guest house. The dinner consists of dishes of Hungarian national cuisine: bogracs gulyas (goulash), Magyar stuffed cabbage rolls, sweets, wine, palinka (vodka drink), compote. Price: UAH 90 per person.
Day 2
Breakfast – in houses, suggested menu: sausage, cheese, langos with jam (resemble pancakes), butter, bread, coffee/tea. Price: UAH 55 per person.
Lunch – in Mizhhiria, in the “Kolyba” restaurant. Consists of local cuisine dishes: vegetable salad, porcini mushroom soup, chanakhi, bread, herbal tea. Price: UAH 95 per person.
Alternatively, you can find other restaurants and cafes with Boyko cuisine dishes and many others.

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