Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
from the south. The most obvious route is the M15/E87 to the crossing at Palanka - a
280km-long diversion.
TRAIN
There are around five trains a day from Kyiv to Chişinău (14 to 17 hours), all of which ori-
ginate in Russia. One evening train a day makes the Odesa-Chişinău run (105uah, five
hours).
Poland
Most overland travellers enter Ukraine from Poland heading to Lviv. It is possible to get to
Ukraine cheaply by combining budget flights with overland travel to Ukraine's western
border.
BUS
Cross-border services to Warsaw, Lublin, Łódź and a few other destinations leave from
Lviv's main bus station.
Between Przemyśl and Lviv it's quickest to take the
marshrutky
(fixed-route minibuses)
from outside each city's train station to the border, walk across and hop onto an onward
marshrutka.
Leaving Lviv,
marshrutka
297 runs between Lviv train station and the road
crossing at Shehyni/Medyka.
CAR & MOTORCYCLE
There are several crossings, of which the easiest in terms of both distance and formalities
is Shehyni on the M11 between Lviv and Przemyśl. Travelling from Kyiv to Warsaw via
Lutsk, you cross over the border at the Buh River before stopping in the Polish town of
Okopy Nowe.
TRAIN
Poland has an online
train timetable
(
www.rozklad.pkp.pl
) in English. The following is a
list of direct connections, but there are plenty of other services if you are prepared to
change. The following are direct trains between Poland and Ukraine:
»
Kyiv-Warsaw Wschodnia
18 hours, one daily
»
Lviv-Przemyśl
2½ hours, one daily
»
Lviv-Kraków
8½ hours, one daily
