Excursion “Kolochava and Lake Synevyr” is a fascinating journey through the picturesque corners of Transcarpathia, that will appeal to both adults and children.

Tour programme

• Departure from Mukachevo.

During the tour we will visit:

• Kolochava – the settlement is known as the “village of ten museums”. The pearl here is the open-air museum (skansen) – “Old Village”, which has about 20 manors.

The exposition presents dwellings and utility rooms with preserved interiors. The exhibits demonstrate the life of Verkhovyna inhabitants. Most of the buildings are original.

Tourists will have the opportunity to visit:

1. Poor man’s dwellings with no floor, small windows and 1 room where the whole large family lived.
2. The house of the village head “birova”, which, on the contrary, demonstrates a good level of prosperity.
3. Shepherd’s huts and salashas (huts) demonstrating the life of shepherds who spent most of their time with flocks of sheep.
4. Houses of a shoemaker, a saber and a weaver, showing the life of artisans engaged in shoemaking and sewing.
5. A smithy with a furnace, bellows and tools, which demonstrates blacksmithing.
6. A carpenter’s hut and workshop, which demonstrates the process of woodworking. It is here that a century-old machine is kept in working order.
7. A 100-year-old steam room frequented by local intellectuals.
8. The parochial school of the mid-nineteenth century.
9. Hungarian Gendarmerie station.

• Lake Synevyr, is located at an altitude of 989 m above sea level.
• Rehabilitation centre for brown bears, where you can watch the largest predatory animals in Ukraine at arm’s length.
• Nearby are Ecopark “Valley of Wolves” (outside the main programme, optional).
• Lunch in the kolyba (not included in the price) – a real Hutsul kolyba, where a real fire is burning in the middle of the room, will not leave any tourist indifferent and hungry. The menu offers a variety of Transcarpathian dishes: banosh, bograch, mushroom soup, local tinctures, Carpathian tea.

The cost of a group tour starts from 800 UAH per person. The cost of an individual tour is 5000 UAH (the price is valid for a group of up to 4 people).