"Europe in miniature" or the story of the key role of a good guide

15 March 2010 Travel time: with 01 March 2010 on 14 March 2010
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instead of a preface.

I think that most of you when you hear "Transcarpathia" clearly make the association - the Carpathians, mineral water, floods.

Probably, this is what we most often hear in the press. When I first came to Beregovo 6 years ago, there was even less knowledge. in an interesting way - I, a native of Kiev, was sent on a business trip to the Transcarpathian region for 2.5 years. According to the specifics of my work, I was forced to travel around the region, winding 500-600 km a day. Naturally, learning more and more about the region, its traditions, history, culture and people.

With the crisis, the project where I worked was frozen and I returned to Kyiv, it lasted for exactly half a year. I constantly pulled back. Apparently, this is love, I thought. prospects and opportunities for comprehensive expansion. Now I am the manager of the only military hotel in the CIS "Grun Hof".


Why was this whole story about myself? I just want you to know the prehistory and understand that everything that I will write below I have experienced myself and probably that’s why I live in Transcarpathia.

Unfortunately, most Ukrainian hoteliers (if you can call them that) work according to the principle - here is a bunk, here you can eat, and then rest as you know. frankly bored and pressing on the owner "what could you do? " they, as a rule, are offered a standard set: Palanok Castle (Mukachevo), Lake Synevyr and a thermal pool in Berehove. All this is good, but - it's pop. Not everyone is ready to stand in line, hang out with other tourists, wash in the Soviet shower, etc. So you can do it once, well, maybe twice. And then?

Guests go for new attractions, impressions, to go where no one has been and see what no one has seen. After all, it is interesting to fly on a paraglider from the Borzhavsky ridge, go down the Tisza on a catamaran, climb in the bunkers of the Arpad defense system (on the object of this line, our hotel was built), sit at the same time booty on the demarcation sign of the Czechs, and with your feet on Ukrainian and Hungarian, fly-fish 4-kilogram trout in Chernogolovaya (not on a bare hook in a breeder, but in wild conditions with teaching and training), shoot underwater gun in Tisa Danube salmon, go on an expedition in jeeps, ATVs, Hutsuliks (Carpathian breed of horses). ; festival of pig slaughterers in the Beregovsky district, where you can try all kinds of delicacies from fresh meat, a lumberjack festival in the Rakhovsky district, where you can take part in the logging process cooking, festivals of cheese, wine, etc. (more than 200 in total).

Do you know that there are 2 French villages in Transcarpathia (after the defeat of Napoleon, French officers were sent there by the Austrians), where Jean and Pierre are the normal situation, and they will treat you with frog legs; 2 Swabian villages where they speak German, but the table is served with real Swabian sausages; about the Slovak, Hungarian and Romanian villages, I am silent, there are many of them.


Gastronomy lovers should come to Transcarpathia. Start with real Romanian corn bread (it tastes like a cake) in Tyachiv, continue near Khust with hot smoked carp with onions and herbs. then go to Bigan for a real Hungarian bograch. But this is all a prelude to haute cuisine in Uzhgorod. If you want to join the classic European cuisine at prices that are ridiculous for Kyiv, but with high quality (some dishes give odds to top-category restaurants in the capital) - you have a direct road to two wonderful Uzhgorod restaurants, it is advisable to do this when the sakura blossoms and the whole city turns pink.

Transcarpathia is skiing, it’s hard to compare the April freeride on Borzhava or Dragobrat with something else in Ukraine, when the sun is warm, crocuses are blooming, and you are in the snow.

Believe me, I could go on for a very long time, but it's better to see it all, not read it. This is all reality and there are more and more interesting offers on the tourism market, the crisis is making its correct adjustments. Come to us in Transcarpathia!

If there are any questions, I will gladly answer them.

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