Top beautiful places in Ukraine is very difficult to squeeze into the top ten. There are many more, because this country is very picturesque. Amazing creations of human hands are interspersed with the wonders of nature. The statement that all interesting places in Ukraine are only seas and mountains is not true. In a state with such a developed culture, it is simply a must to see the cities - Kyiv, Lvov, Odessa. And what can you advise a traveler who is going to visit Ukraine for a holiday? Our article will tell about this.
Aleshkovsky Sands and Kinburn Spit
The top 10 most beautiful places in Ukraine are rightfully opened by these two natural attractions. Kinburun among the Turks, Beloberezhye of Svyatoslav among the Zaporizhzhya Cossacks, Lukomorye sung by Pushkin is a sandy spit washed by the Dnieper-Bug estuary. The ancient Greeks erected an altar to Hecate here. You can get to the most beautiful beaches of Ukraine by boat from Ochakov. Seven kilometers across the estuary - and you are already on the spit. But for lovers of adrenaline and wild beauties, there is another way, through the Aleshkovsky Sands. Two hundred hectares of Europe's largest desert are of anthropogenic origin. In the nineteenth century, they decided to breed sheep here. The flocks ate all the steppe vegetation, and the wind and soil erosion completed the job. The sandy desert begins just thirty kilometers east of Kherson. You can move around it only on an all-wheel drive SUV. And even then you need to know the way: reviews warn that there are quicksands. The surface of the desert heats up to +75 degrees in summer. And at the depth of this natural phenomenon, under a layer of sand, there is a fresh lake with very tasty water. Thanks to her, there is an oasis in the middle of the desert.
Dniester Canyon
Beautiful natural places of Ukraine are its rivers. The most unusual water artery of the country is the Dniester. In the upper reaches it is a small river. But the Dniester also pours into the Black Sea with a narrow channel (in the resort town of Zatoka, Odessa region). But before the mouth, it spills into a huge estuary. On its northern shore stands the ancient city of Tyra, the medieval Akkerman, the modern Belgorod-Dnestrovsky, famous for its majestic castle. Where the borders of Ternopil, Ivano-Frankivsk, Khmelnitsky and Chernivtsi regions converge, the river forms a canyon - the largest in Ukraine and one of the greatest in Europe. Sheer, from one hundred to two hundred and fifty meters high, the banks were formed by washing out softbreeds. On the banks of the canyon there are about a hundred monuments of world significance. Here were the centers of Trypillia culture. And eighty-six representatives of the fauna and flora of this region are listed in the Red Book.
Lemurian Lake
Analogues of the Sahara Desert and the Grand Canyon of the USA are not the only amazing and beautiful places in Ukraine. This country also has its own “Dead Sea”. It is located not far from Kherson and is officially called Lemurian Lake. The very color of this reservoir - bright pink - makes it unique. And the s alt content in the lake is even higher than in the Israeli Dead Sea. Of course, it is simply impossible to drown yourself in such a reservoir. And the brine of this lake is considered the most healing in Ukraine. This water treats many diseases, mainly of the musculoskeletal system. If you want a holiday filled with fun and comfort, this is definitely not the place for you. According to reviews, there is no infrastructure here - only wild nature, the steppe wind and the expanse of the healing "Dead Sea". You should bring a tent, food, drinking water with you.
Vilkovo
Ukraine has its own Venice. True, without the Cathedral of San Marco, the Bridge of Sighs and the world famous carnival. The town of Vilkovo (Odessa region) is located in the Danube Delta, where the river branches into three prongs - hence the name.
And the Russian Empress Catherine II inhabited these most beautiful places of Ukraine, unwittingly. When she tried to enslave the Cossacks, many of them fled fromserfdom in the Danube floodplains. The persecuted Old Believers also settled there. Their descendants still practice their religion. Refugees had to build housing right on the water. Silt from the Danube was piled into islands, and boats floated through the streets. Bridges in Vilkovo are almost all detachable: a boat has sailed, and the helmsman puts the board connecting both banks of the canal in place.
Gorodok reviews are advised to watch, starting with the Old Believer churches of the Nativity of the Virgin and St. Nicholas the Wonderworker. And then you should definitely swim through the Lily Canal and go to the zero kilometer, where the Danube, having made a long journey through ten states, flows into the Black Sea. When the boat approaches the stone sign, climb through this zero. They say it will “zero out” your sins and add an extra circle to your salary.
Lviv
If in Italy they say that all roads lead to Rome, then in Ukraine they assure that sooner or later, the road will lead you to this beautiful city. It stands on the banks of the Poltva River. But you will not see any embankments in Lviv. The river was safely hidden underground at the end of the nineteenth century. Lviv was founded in the middle of the thirteenth century by Prince Danylo Galitsky. He possessed the Magdeburg rights. Thanks to the skillful diplomatic policy of the Lviv people, who preferred to pay off the occupiers rather than fight heroically against them, the city did not suffer from any wars. Therefore, so many sights have been preserved in the capital of Galicia - Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque.
This city was the brightest pearl incrown of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, one of the most significant centers of culture in Poland. And now it is considered the spiritual capital of independent Ukraine. And outside the city there are beautiful places for traveling in Ukraine - the castles of the Lviv region: Podgoretsky, Olesky, in Stary Selo. Whenever you arrive in the capital of Galicia, a whirlwind of events awaits you, as the reviews testify. Festivals, festivities, concerts and other spectacular events take place in the city every weekend. Be sure to take an umbrella on your trip: rains are frequent here.
Optimistic cave
Those people who love underground halls will certainly enroll this amazing natural formation in the most beautiful places in Ukraine. Optimistic - the longest cave in the world, built of gypsum deposits. The entrance to this underground kingdom is located near the village of Korolivka, in the Ternopil region. The cavities of the cave were formed by the dissolution of gypsum by groundwater about fourteen million years ago. The greatest attraction of the Optimistic are the secondary formations. Tourists are amazed by the gypsum "hoarfrost" and even drifts of "cave snow". These translucent needle-shaped crystals have been growing for tens of thousands of years. There are also underground lakes in Optimisticheskaya, especially in the lower tier of the labyrinth.
Natural-historical complex Tustan
The western part of the country attracts more tourists. There are few industrial enterprises here, historical sights have been preserved from destruction. Difficultto say what are the most beautiful places in Western Ukraine - there are a lot of them. These are the beautiful Carpathians with the peaks of Hoverla, Petros, Chernovetsky, Vorokhtyansky and Svidovets ridges, and Shatsky lakes with the largest freshwater body of water in the country Svityaz. The Uritsky rocks, in which, according to legend, the troops of Danilo Galitsky fought with the Tatar-Mongols, which is why the place became known as Tustan ("stop here"), are located in the Lviv region. This natural and historical monument is part of the Skole Beskids park. In addition to almost sheer cliffs up to fifty meters high, in Tustan you can see petroglyph drawings, among which the most interesting is the image of a human face carved in stone.
Kamianets-Podolsk
This city of the Khmelnitsky region should be number one in the top 10 most beautiful places in Ukraine. Its fortress is amazing! Towers, walls with loopholes, bridges and other ancient monuments seem to take you to the Middle Ages. And the city itself can also surprise the traveler. It houses two hundred architectural monuments and eleven museums. It is not surprising that there are so many tourists in Kamyanets-Podilskyi. By the way, grateful townspeople also erected a monument to them. Don't forget to take a photo with the bronze tourist. The cathedral of the city managed to visit a mosque. The Turks built a minaret next to it. And when the city again went to the Christians, its top was crowned with a gilded statue of the Virgin Mary. A couple of tens of kilometers from Kamenetz-Podolsk, but already in the Chernivtsi region, there is another city with an ancient fortress -Khotyn.
Beautiful places in Ukraine for recreation
Where in the country can you spend your holidays? In summer, resorts of the Black and Azov Seas are attractive vacation spots. They stretched in a long strip from the already mentioned Vilkovo, on the border with Romania, to Mariupol in the east. The Carpathians are always beautiful, at any time of the year. The off-season happens there only in November, before the snow cover is established. If you are a fan of winter sports, then you are waiting for the ski resorts of the country - Bukovel, Dragobrat and others. The most beautiful places in Ukraine for cognitive and green tourism are located in the Transcarpathian region. There are medieval castles here (Palanok in Mukachevo, Uzhgorod, Khust), the blue pearl of the Carpathians - Lake Synevyr, the geographical center of Europe in Delovoy. He alth-improving rest can be obtained at the resorts of Shayan, at the radon baths of the village of Kvasy. Yasinya and Yaremcha are two centers in which the culture of the Hutsul region is clearly revealed.
