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Hutsul culture and head off into the hills for some exhilarating hiking and biking, before
picking your way north along the A265 road linking resort villages, ski centres and hik-
ing bases en route. Call a halt at quaint
Kolomyya
, a superb launch pad for more hikes.
The town also has two intriguing museums, including the famous Pysanky Museum
housed in a giant Easter egg. It also boasts one of the best places to stay in all Ukraine in
the shape of the On the Corner guesthouse.
Consider short stops at energetic
Chernivtsi
, to visit the psychedelic university build-
ing, and the spectacular
Khotyn
fortress on the banks of the wide Dnister River, before
you next unpack your bags in the show-stopping island town of
Kamyanets-Podilsky
.
One of Ukraine's must-see attractions, the town is as historically fascinating as it is dra-
matically situated, in a loop of the Smotrych River.
A long haul by bus across giant fields of sunflowers and sugar beet via off-the-beaten-
track Ternopil delivers you to picturesque
Kremenets
, another town boasting a superb
fortress as well as an eerie Cossack cemetery. From here it's a short
marshrutka
(fixed-
route minibus) hop to the polished golden domes of
Pochayiv
, Ukraine's second most
important monastery after Kyiv's Kyevo-Pecherska Lavra. Lviv is a four-hour bus ride
away.
