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The Carpathians

Clipping the country's southwest corner, the Carpathian arc has endowed Ukraine with a crinkled region of forested hills and fast-flowing rivers that feel a continent away from the flatness of the steppe. This is the land of the Hutsuls, whose colourful folk culture is laced through thin villages stretching languidly along wide valley floors. It's also rural Ukraine at its best, where tiered wooden churches dot hillsides, horse-drawn carts clip-clop along potholed roads, babushkas shoo geese, and marshrutka passengers cross themselves as they whizz past roadside chapels.


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The sun sets over ski tracks and pine-tree forest in Bukovel, Ukraine's biggest ski resort © Volodymyr Goinyk / Shutterstock

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Spotlight on: skiing in Ukraine’s Carpathians this winter

Nov 20, 2019 • 4 min read

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