Travel tips about cheap Carpathian travelers.
The budget option to relax for Ukrainians this summer is to go Hiking in the Carpathians. The cost of such leave will be several times lower and the impressions and colorful pictures even more than the traditional holiday in rented accommodation or on the camp site.
All that you will need the tourist is money for travel and food, camping equipment (which you can borrow from friends or rent one), a map of the route and a good mood. Money for housing don’t need them for these few days will be the tent. The guide – route map and marks on trees along the trails.
Someone to go with
Online you can find the travel clubs and associations, and travelers. There is often asked to pay a certain amount for the organization and support of the instructor. It may be a good option for a first experience of camping. And it is possible to organize a campaign and go to the mountains with your friends.
How to choose the route
First of all you should decide what you want to see and how well physically prepared for this.
Most popular routes among Ukrainians following: Carpathian pedestrian route # 1 (the Chornohora ridge), Hutsul Alps (Maramures ridge mountain Pop Ivan Marmaroshsky), Verkhovyna, climbing on Pop Ivan Montenegro (Black mountain), or Goverla.
One of the long routes – the East-Carpathian tourist path (chain Gorgany mountain ranges, partly Montenegrin array). Its total length of 200 km, the hike is designed for 20 days.
Traveler Alexander Fedorovskiy advises novice hikers choose Hiking through the valleys, and more experienced and sports prepared to try the forces on the ridges with a visit to the peaks of mountains.
If you’ve never been camping and don’t exercise, choose to start the route meadow – Borzhava or Gorgan, advise seasoned travelers. You will open expanses of blueberry and crocuses, green pastures and fabulously beautiful forests.
If you want to conquer these mountain peaks rise to the height of the flight of an eagle, not afraid of rocky climbs and are in good physical shape, go on the Montenegrin or the Maramures mountains.
Find a detailed description of the routes on thematic sites about trips to Ukraine. There will specify which mountains and ridges you climb, what are the waterfalls and lakes you will see, on how many days roughly calculated the route and its difficulty level. Choose what suits you and begin to gather in the journey.
Get ready to beat walking a few miles for the day, tired physically and relax. Whichever route is elected, the road you take your mind off your usual thoughts, and will encounter breathtaking views, waterfalls and streams with crystal clear water that will be you and a shower and pump room for the duration of the campaign.
Without a map anywhere
But of course, you can’t go Hiking in the Carpathians, just reading about them on the Internet. The first thing you need to tourist place in the mountains is the map. GPS Navigator can also facilitate you the way, but don’t be sad if it is not, it mainly inspires confidence, do not get lost.
Ukraine maps from 1944 and to this day deals with the State scientific-production enterprise “Cartography”. It makes the tourist maps, which are marked routes for hikers. However, many travelers prefer to take card of the publishing house “ACCA”, they are tested.
“Our employees go to the mountains physically, with GPS-navigators. Each of our map is from six months to a year of work,” says project Director of the publishing house “ACCA” Roman Shevchuk.
In addition, for the convenience of tourists in this year was released a new laminated card that is not afraid of water.
To negotiate with the guards
There are routes that run near the state border. If you chose this, you need to get permission from the border guards of the appropriate squad to move around the area.
For example, to walk in the Maramures massif with the start of the route in the village on Business need to register with the local Department of border service. This registration is free, but advance. The application should be submitted in a few days (not later than) by email, Fax or registered letter.
The head of one of the groups that went Marmarosa in early may, Alexander Fedorov says: “I was in 12 days sent a request. We came, gave the passport and a completed application. We were checked in, handed over the spine which need to show the border guards if we meet. Every day should send an SMS with the location where the band is now, and at the end of the route you need to call and say that the route is finished.”
It should be noted that the border guards responsible attitude to their work with tourists. If the group arrived in the dark, you will not be allowed in the mountains. Permission will be given, but with the condition that in the campaign you will go only in the morning. And control. This is a safety issue the travellers themselves. If in the future you meet with the guards they will also check that you have permission and passports of all tourists.
What to bring and how much it costs
The total cost of the holiday in the Carpathian mountains is significantly reduced due to the fact that tourists do not need to rent a house. The main items of expenditure for a Hiking trip is the food and Shuttle service.
For example, a 10-day “walk” on Marmarosa and Borzhava cost correspondent Segodnaya about 800 UAH. This amount includes food and transportation, all the equipment was able to collect my friends.
If I had to rent the cheapest travel backpack, tent and sleeping bag, then a 10-day hike gone up to 600 UAH. and more.
Total hike for 10 days with their equipment will cost 800 UAH. Camping with rented equipment – about 1400 UAH.
Transfer
Train tickets from Kiev to Mukachevo and back, as well as taxis between villages in total cost 450 UAH. In small towns there are buses, but they don’t often go according to schedule, and sometimes only on weekdays, it must be considered. Depending on their value range from 10 to 30 UAH. Also you can negotiate with the local drivers, the price is not fixed, on an oral contract, but no “ache” and not dumping, will offer the market depending on distance of travel.
Food
The food that was bought in Kiev at a cost of 360 UAH per person. Each marcher were dropped on pre-planned menus, which included: cereals, lentils, pasta, canned meat, butter, cheese, bread, fresh vegetables, tea, sweets.
Equipment
This training approach may scare the novice tourist. Seems to buy everything you need, you need to spend a fortune. This is far from the truth, but you’d be surprised how many useful things have your relatives and friends. And missing items can be rented.
Prices for rental equipment the lower, the longer your hike. For example, take the tent for 1 day costs 50 UAH. and if you take for a week, then each day of rental will cost 30 UAH. Prices for sleeping bags start at 21 UAH. a day on the mats – from 8 UAH., the pot and tripod – 20, ax – 10 UAH. However, it is understood that the use of each of the rented thing that are required to make a cash Deposit in the amount of their cost (for tent – from 1000 UAH. for the sleeping bag – 800 UAH). or to leave a Deposit of their documents.
Clothing
Special attention needs to remove shoes. It should be sports shoes, shoes or sneakers that you have already carried. Special trekking shoes will be ideal, but buying them just for the first campaign of urgent need not. Sturdy athletic shoes will do. But still grab a second pair.
Be sure to bring warm clothes, including hat and gloves, as the evening and night in the mountains cold and wet. Don’t forget a windbreaker or a hooded denim jacket from wind and rain cover. A hat or a buff and sunglasses will protect your head and eyes from the sun.
10 tricks experienced
1. Washing dishes can be moss – washes perfectly even greasy dishes without detergent. And scour the pot of porridge can be shot.
2. If you still want to take a tool for, let it be soda. As washing the dishes, and a set of water for cooking to occur in the same stream and in different locations. Tourists downstream also need clean drinking water.
3. Be sure to bring a rope and clothespins, you will have to dry wet or damp during the night things.
4. Bring garbage bags: clear to wrap objects and crockery and opaque, sturdy, instead of a bag on a backpack if you don’t.
5. Don’t forget the sunscreen. In the first two days of the hike noses “burn” almost all.
6. Instead of raw carrots, onions and tomatoes bring dried – this will greatly facilitate the backpack and it takes up less space.
7. Mandatory shoes. Your “home” camp, the pair may then, to RUB, DAB or melt at the fire.
8. Provided that you have a good sleeping bag, sleep in underwear only, do not wrap in 10 layers of clothing. Thus your body will to heat only one layer of air between you and the sleeping bag, so energy efficient (note: synthetic and frankly cold sleeping bags this trick does not work).
9. All the garbage that is left of you, burn. The following tourists should also be a pleasure to visit the meadow, which you have chosen to stop.
10. Do not take alcohol. High a small flask to keep warm if you’re not lucky with the weather. But you can drink only in the evening, while stationary, not during daily transitions, it is your safety.
