There are inexpensive options for vacation in Ukraine. For those who want to spend holidays abroad, will have to fork out.
This year coincided two diverse holiday and Day of solidarity of workers. We expect four days — from April 30 to may 3. If you take 3 days off and add on to it non-working days from 7 to 9 may, you get a mini vacation in length in 10 days. In General, there is time to roam.
In Ukraine, this period will pass several interesting festivals. So, from 1 to 3 may in Kamenetz-Podolsk will organize a festival of coffee, “Kamenetz Turk”. It was organized in honor of the fact that in the era of Ottoman rule (in 1672) here was opened the first within the modern Ukraine a coffee shop. Coffee fair, master-classes, competitions will be held in the centre of the Old town on the Polish market. And from 7 to 9 may in the Old castle will host the festival of medieval culture “Forpost”.
Does not graze the rear and the lions: from 1 to 5 may near the Dominican Cathedral will be held batyar Day. So here called urban revelers, which had its own lingo and dress code. In addition, on may 3 celebrated the city Day, an occasion for the jazz festival “Weathercocks of Lviv”. From 12 April to 12 may on Liberty Avenue will run an Easter fair. In Uzhgorod will be held on may 2-3, Fire life Festival — the festival of fire art.
UKRAINE: FLOWER TRAILS
Many have heard about the Japanese tradition of Hanami — the sight of blooming plum and cherry trees. This activity in Japan increased to the level of art. In Ukraine, with its natural diversity, also there are many places where you can have your own Hanami. And the first ten days of may are very well suited for this.
TULIPS. If you can not go in the famous Dutch Keukenhof Park, you should visit the dendrological Park of Kirovohrad (Pravdy Ave., 28). This year the administration of the arboretum expects to start flowering in mid-April. It is assumed that bloom to half a million tulips. Many of the varieties of the so-called premiere, that is, they simultaneously presented to connoisseurs, for example, the Netherlands and Ukraine. Now there are about hundreds of these newcomers, from tiny to huge and laugaste”.
But if in the beginning of may to go to the Kherson area, the reserve “Askania Nova” in early may you can see the flowering of wild species of Tulip — Scythian and endemic (i.e. found only in this place) Tulip Shrenka.
Askaniya Nova. Tavria steppe with flowering Schrenk tulips.
SAKURA. The Carpathians mountains protect from cold winds, and winter here is mild, Sunny, spring comes early. From the XV century, the region became the second homeland for hundreds of exotic plants from around the world. However, the glory he brought it was the Japanese cherry — Sakura. Peak flowering occurs in late April — early may. Some of the streets of Uzhgorod at that time literally drowning in pink colors. The most well — known places in the streets of Dovzhenko and Rakoczy or on Pushkin square in Moscow, Kiev and Slavic embankments. In addition to Uzhgorod, cherry blossoms can be seen in Mukachevo (in the city centre and on the square Fedorova), Sochi (the Park of the castle Schonborn), and also in Kiev in the territory of the Botanical garden and in “Mezhyhiria.”
LILAC. In 1822, Victor Kochubey, Manager of the estate in Dykanka in the Poltava region, in order to Refine abandoned quarry planted his 40 varieties of lilacs, purchased in the Botanical gardens of Europe. Lilac has been well received. After the Civil war, abandoned plantations, bushes of different varieties, alas, periorellis. However, grove has escaped and now occupies 2.5 hectares. It is the largest array of lilac in Ukraine and Europe. Guests of Kiev and those of the people of Kiev, who can leave for the may holidays, recall that of the 28 varieties of lilac available on the planet, 21 represented in the National Botanical garden to them. N. N. Grishko (Timiryazevskaya str, 1).
Unikum. Europe’s largest array of lilacs is in Dikanka.
DAFFODILS. As soon as it comes on may the Carpathian mountains, he immediately remembered the tract Kireshi near Khust. This is one of the few places in Europe where still massively blooms of Narcissus. The travel Agency sign that you will see here almost a huge field, completely littered with white flowers. In fact, there are only a few clearings, so many are leaving disappointed. In addition, note that the peak of flowering daffodils is more often observed closer to the Victory Day.
Transcarpathia. Kireshi tract is famous for its daffodils.
ABROAD: NEZAEZZHENNAYA DIRECTIONS
Ukrainians will decide to spend may holidays in the trip to Europe. We must note that these days the European capital or a hyped attractions (like Keukenhof Park in Holland) are filled. So it makes sense to look at tours that bypass such congestion of the people, and Prague, Budapest or Krakow to postpone for another time.
GDANSK. If Krakow and Warsaw are purely Polish cities, in the guise of Wroclaw persistently breaks the grim German town of Breslau, a very different feeling in Gdansk. Thanks to the advantageous position on the Baltic sea the city was the cauldron where they melted German, Polish, Dutch culture. The manifestation of this mix is not only the architecture, but also the fact that if in the rest of Poland traditional drinks called vodka and “drinkable honey”, in Gdansk — beer. Due to the fact that from the Ukraine to the Baltic sea light was a long one, the journey will not be too easy and will take 5 days. On familiarity with the city is given 2 days (reasonable time). Tour operators offer various travel options either by bus from Lviv via Warsaw, or tourists arrive by train to Warsaw, where the change in the bus. The cost of the actual tour — starting from 200 Euro (accommodation in 3* hotels). To this figure plyusuem visa and insurance — around 50 euros, travel by train (20 euros round trip), optional excursions — about 50 euros. Do not forget about nutrition rate of at least 15 Euro per day per person. Total — about 500 euros.
Gdansk. Mariacki Church size is second only to Cologne.
The BALTIC States. Three days (and a further 1-2 days in transit) is enough for the first acquaintance with the capitals of Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia (and also with the coast of the Baltic sea in Jurmala and the Trakai castle). Bus tour to the Baltic States most often starts from the city. You can find the offers with departure from Kiev or other big city (from 150 Euro). As in the previous case, to obtain the final estimate, consider a visa (around 50€), food — 70-80 Euro, optional excursions — about 50 euros. Total — about 400 euros.
For those who have a passport is completely clean or there is no “Schengen”, the travel in the Baltic States there is another premiumsthe. Lithuania is a country of the Schengen area, where not in words, but in fact runs a simplified procedure of obtaining visas. The Consulate of this state does not require, for example, proof of Bank account and statement of movement of funds on account.
The dome Cathedral in Riga.
ROMANIA. Although the main purpose of the bus tour in this country — Transylvania, but depending on where the tour starts (Chernivtsi, Lviv, Odessa), the program has to add the Bucharest city or “the land of the monasteries” (Romanian Bukovina). In Transylvania tourists visiting the city of Brasov, the fortress city of Sighisoara, Rasnov fortress and bran castle, the one where supposedly quartered by Dracula himself. Then the travelers heading to Sinaia, where Peles castle and the monastery of Sinai. When leaving from Odessa, the cost of a 4-day tour starts from 100 Euro. The Romanian national visa (to her much easier than a Schengen visa) will require another 30 Euro (more precisely — $40). Plyusuem meals, optional excursions, travel by train to Odessa — about 150 euros. Total trip to Transylvania will cost about 300 euros.
Bran castle in Transylvania.
ITALY AND FRANCE. Those who wish to avoid the crowds, you can pay attention on the tour bus in the Italian Tuscany. This region in the beginning of may in full bloom, but few people, as traveling in Italy people are succumbing to stereotypes of thinking, traditionally breaks in Rome or Venice. Bus tour through Hungary and Slovenia (including all costs) would cost about 500-700 Euro per person. This year some travel companies offer for the may holidays tours to almost undeveloped Ukrainian tourist regions — Sicily (South of Italy), Provence and Corsica (South of France). Tourists from Ukraine by plane, and use a tour bus. The cost of this tour is designed for 10-11-day — 800-1000 Euro.
The Ponte Vecchio bridge in Florence.
WHERE COMFORTABLE AT THE BEACH
TROPICS. In Sri Lanka the temperature on the coasts year-round lasts about 30 °C. Seasonal winds — monsoon — brings the rains, which pour mostly at night) in the resort regions in may — July. But at the may holidays they still will not. Water temperature is 28-30 °C. the Price of tour for two for early may — from $1500 (8-10 nights, 4*, breakfasts, airfare).
THE RED SEA. In the resorts of Egypt in early may, the air just starts to heat up, and the thermometer rises above 30 °C. will Be less “invigorating” winds, because of which people emerging from the warm sea (all year round — from 23 to 27 °C), unpleasant feels chilly. The cost of a week tour for two people (4*, all inclusive) — from $850. The same weather this time — in the Israeli Eilat (4* hotel, Breakfast — $1900), the Jordanian Aqaba (4* hotel, half Board — $1100).
UAE. The last month of spring — the end of a comfortable season in this region. The water in the Persian Gulf — below 25 °C but the air is already starting to overheat above 30 °C. the cost of the tour for two from $1200 (7 nights, 4* hotel in Dubai with Breakfast).
OF THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA. On the southernmost island of Greece, Crete, water temperature just crosses over around 20 °C. 10 days in Crete in early may for two will cost from $1400 (hotel 4*, breakfasts). Slightly warmer water off the coast of Israel — to 22 °C. In Antalya, Turkey, though the heat in the air, but the sea is also not warm (at best — slightly above 20 °C). The cost of the tour for two from $650 (4* hotel in Kemer, all-inclusive).
